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John Donne's sonnet, 'Death be not proud', ends with which four words?
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry entitled "The Cat's Tale?"
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry containing the lines:
"Was this the puss that munched a thousand mice
And napped atop the towers of Ilium?"
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry entitled "Vet, Be Not Proud?"
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry asking the "heavenly Mews" to sing
"Of cats' first disobedience, and the height
Of that forbidden tree whose doom'd ascent
Brought man into the world to help us down
And made us subject to his moods and whims?"
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For whom did John Donne say the bell tolls?
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Who wrote these famous lines?
"Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kisse but in the cup
and Ile not looke for wine."
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Who wrote the poem The Owl and the Pussycat?
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Who wrote these lines?
"Come live with mee, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Vallies, groves, hills and fieldes,
Woods, or steepie mountaine yeeldes."
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Who wrote Ballad of Reading Gaol?
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Who is traditionally regarded as the first Poet Laureate of England, the post having been created for him by King James I in 1617?
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This stanza comes from a long poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning dealing with which poet? His surname is left blank in this quotation:
"It went up from the Holy's lips amid his
lost creation,
That, of the lost, no son should use those
words of desolation!
That Earth's worst frenzies, marring
hope, should mar not hope's fruition,
And I, on _______'s grave, should see his
rapture in a vision."
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To which poet is Anne Brontë addressing these lines?
“Sweet are thy strains, celestial Bard;
And oft, in childhood’s years,
I’ve read them o’er and o’er again,
With floods of silent tears.
The language of my inmost heart,
I traced in every line;
My sins, my sorrows, hopes and fears,
Were there – and only mine.
All for myself the sigh would swell,
The fear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet’s heart.”
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Who asked this?
"O time that cut'st down all!
And scarce leav'st here
Memoriall
Of any men that were.
How many lye forgot
In Vaults beneath?
And piece-meale rot
Without a fame in death?"
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet: "They also serve who only stand and wait."
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet: "Death, be not proud."
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne,
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
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Who wrote these lovely lines?
"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this sunburnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove."
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Who wrote these lovely lines?
"How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
How heaven laughs out with glee
Where, like a bird set free,
Up from the eastern sea
Soars the delightful day."
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Who wrote these lovely lines?
"O what is that sound which so thrills the ear
Down in the valley drumming, drumming?
Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,
The soldiers coming."
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
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62 times |
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42 times (56.0%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Nor the furious winter's rages:
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
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