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Famous Poems by first lines

These are the most famous short poems (as opposed to book-length poetry) by number of Wikipedia languages. Can you name title and author from the first two (in some cases four) lines?
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Last updated: September 27, 2022
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Poem
Author
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.
First they came …
Martin Niemöller
_ ______ / velut luna
statu variabilis, / semper crescis
O Fortuna
(unknown)
____ _______ / ____ _______
sujalāṃ suphalāṃ / malayajaśītalām
Vande Mataram
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
En la mondon venis nova sento,
tra la mondo iras forta voko
La Espero
L. L. Zamenhof
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
Hljóðs bið ek allar / helgar kindir,
meiri ok minni / mögu Heimdallar
Völuspá / Poetic Edda
(unknown)
It is an ______ _______,
And he stoppeth one of three.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
_ you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If—
Rudyard Kipling
Iro wa nioedo / Chirinuru o
Wa ga yo tare zo / Tsune naran
Iroha
(unknown)
Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.
Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
Yuen Ren Chao
Take up __ ____ ___'_ _____—
Send forth the best ye breed—
The White Man's Burden
Rudyard Kipling
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind
Erlkönig
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
_ _______ _____, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae
In Xanadu did ____ ____
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
‎Na beregu pustynnykh voln
Stoyal on, dum velikikh poln
The Bronze Horseman
(Mednyy vsadnik)
Alexander Pushkin
Girey sidel, potupya vzor;
Yantar' v ustakh yego dymilsya
The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
(Bakhchisarayskiy fontan)
Alexander Pushkin
Hat der alte Hexenmeister
sich doch einmal wegbegeben!
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
(Der Zauberlehrling)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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