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Famous Lines of Poetry #1

Fill the blanks in these lines from famous poems.
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Last updated: August 28, 2018
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First submittedMay 13, 2010
Times taken30,181
Average score53.3%
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Poem
Poet
Line
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge
Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
The Tyger
William Blake
Tyger Tyger, burning bright
She Walks in Beauty
Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Untitled
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary
Stopping by Woods on
a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
But I have promises to keep / And miles to go before I sleep
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage / And all the men
and women merely players
The Midnight Ride of
Paul Revere
Henry Longfellow
One if by land, and two if by sea
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Ozymandias
Percy Shelley
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Howl
Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
The Charge of the
Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die
Traditional
Traditional
Roses are red / violets are blue
+2
Level 33
Jun 4, 2013
Dang, I only missed one. I am a poet... if I did but know it. ;)
+5
Level 75
Aug 17, 2015
We can tell by your feet - they're longfellows. (Nothing personal, just my dad's reply when anyone quoted that line.)
+1
Level 72
May 18, 2023
I am a poet... but I didn't realize it.
+2
Level 64
Jun 11, 2013
I think we need a part 21
+5
Level 67
Apr 29, 2014
I was convinced it was "do not go GENTLY" :-/. When it didn't worked I moved on to quietly, softly, etc. Gentle. Argh,
+2
Level 51
Aug 17, 2015
I couldn't even think of gently or gentle. I kept thinking it was soft or softly. *sigh*
+1
Level 74
May 11, 2018
I wonder how many people guessed "quietly" because of Independence Day. "We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight."
+9
Level 85
May 11, 2018
Stupid Dylan Thomas didn't know his adjectives from his adverbs.
+2
Level 78
Feb 4, 2021
I hope this is irony.
+1
Level 84
May 15, 2018
Yup. Tried "gently" a hundred times, uncomprehending.
+1
Level 44
Oct 17, 2018
yep me too
+1
Level 37
Aug 24, 2019
Travelfan: So did I. "Gently" is, in any case, grammatically correct. But I guess poetic license wins out.
+2
Level 43
Jun 19, 2014
Huh, I thought Shelley's "Ozymandias" was more well-known. It's one of my favorites.
+3
Level 62
Jun 24, 2020
Somewhat ironic to have even the poem become forgotten itself
+2
Level 52
Aug 14, 2015
Evidently, only 50% of people have seen The Mentalist.
+13
Level 74
Aug 14, 2015
Roses are red,

That much is true.

But violets are violet,

Not @$#%ing blue!!

+1
Level 76
May 11, 2018
Violets are blue though. The word 'violet' referring to a colour originally referred to a dark shade of blue, which is what featured in Isaac Newton's original list of colours in the rainbow
+2
Level 47
Aug 14, 2015
Charge of the Light Brigade is my favorite poem. I first heard of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a06DOmPsBkw
+1
Level 49
May 11, 2018
Man, I feel old.
+1
Level 37
Aug 15, 2015
The Robert Frost sounded familiar and then I realized it was written on a wall in my high school I passed every day for four years..
+2
Level 84
Sep 24, 2016
That line was also used as the trigger-phrase for latent assassins in the Charles Bronson/Lee Remick/Donald Pleasance movie "Telefon".
+2
Level 84
Sep 24, 2016
Think I'll go sound my yawp.
+3
Level 74
Nov 5, 2016
Nice selection.
+1
Level 68
Mar 15, 2017
I wandered lonely as a cloud... my favourite poem. ... a host of golden daffodils, beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze...
+4
Level 65
Oct 16, 2017
Always thought it was do OR die.
+1
Level 47
Jan 2, 2018
Really just 11% for the Ginsberg quote? I can't count the number of times I've heard that.
+1
Level 60
Oct 10, 2019
They might be giants song!
+2
Level 57
May 11, 2018
I sounded my barbaric yawp after missing that question.
+3
Level 68
Jun 3, 2019
I sounded my barbaric yarp first. Guess Hot Fuzz ruined me
+3
Level 48
May 13, 2018
Yes, thank you They Might be Giants for Ginsberg. "I should be allowed to glue my poster. I should be allowed to think."
+2
Level 75
Nov 29, 2018
Any chance for more of these, QM?
+1
Level 67
Feb 11, 2020
I got 2 and am very proud of myself.
+1
Level 78
May 5, 2022
I have the exact Robert Frost quote on the back of the cab of my work truck.
+1
Level 82
Oct 6, 2022
I'm kinda shocked so few got the Ginsberg one. I've heard that line quoted in so many places. And not just in highbrow places - I came across it in a Jake and Amir video on College Humor.