Poetic First Lines

For how many of the following poetic first lines can you supply the second line?

How about the author's name?  How about the name of the poem, book or play they come from?

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Wake! For the sun who scattered into flight

As kingfishers catch fire

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

The sea is calm tonight

He did not wear his scarlet cap

Out of the night that covers me

To be or not to be

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

Go and catch a falling star

With thee conversing I forget all time

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain

Tiger! Tiger, burning bright

Flow gently, sweet Afton! Among thy green braes

My heart leaps up when I behold

Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the west

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

'Tis the last rose of summer

Jenny kiss'd me when we met

I met a traveller from an antique land

I remember, I remember

By the rude bridge that arched the flood

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

Between the dark and the daylight

Blessings on thee, little man

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

Half a league, half a league

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea

That's my last duchess painted on the wall

O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

When I was one and twenty

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea

Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn

Whose woods these are I think I know

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