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Here are some well known lines of poetry. All you have to do is name the poet who wrote them
Quiz by conorsdad
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Last updated: June 5, 2023
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First submittedJune 5, 2023
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
William Wordsworth
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
William Shakespeare
Hateful is the dark-blue sky, vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea
Alfred Tennyson
But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep
Robert Frost
Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
W. B. Yeats
I stood on the bridge at night, as the clocks were striking the hour
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was not death, for I stood up, and all the dead, lie down
Emily Dickenson
In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo
T.S. Eliot
He was my North, my South, my East and West
W.H. Auden
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird
John Keats
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree
John Milton
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
Thomas Gray
A youth of labour with an age of ease
Oliver Goldsmith
The man had killed the thing he loved and so he had to die
Oscar Wilde
I caught this morning morning's minion
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas
Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base
Siegfried Sassoon
2 Comments
CardinalSin
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Level 77
Jun 5, 2023
I enjoyed that. Though IMO you have missed out the best poet ever to write in the English language - Owen. How about adding "In all my dreams before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning"?
conorsdad
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Level 55
Jun 6, 2023
glad you enjoyed it. Owen crossed my mind (dulce et decorum est)
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