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1. "Achilles' baneful wrath resound. O Goddesse, that imposd. Infinite sorrowes on the Greekes, and many brave soules losd. From breasts Heroique-sent them farre, to that invisible caave. That no light comforts; and their lims to dogs and vultures gave. To all which Jove's will gaave effect; from whom first strife begunne. Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike Sonne." Our first poem is The Iliad. Homer wrote it. Who translated it?
2. "Amazing grace! how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see." John Newton, an evangelical minister, wrote this beautiful poem. What was Newton's line of work before he became a minister?
3. "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-it gives a lovely light." The name of this poem is "First Fig". The name of the woman who wrote it is?
4. "Do not go gentle into that good night,old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light." Who wrote this poem?
5. "Under the wide and starry sky dig the grave and let me lie; glad did I live and gladly die. and I laid me down with a will." This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he long'd to be; home is the sailor, home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill." "Requiem" was written by what great poet and author?
6. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." These are the last four lines of a beautiful poem by Robert Frost. Can you tell me the title?
7. "It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day, the score stood two to four, with but an inning left to play. So, when Cooney died at second, and Burrows did the same, a pallor wreathed the features of the patrons of the game." What is the name of this famous poem written by Ernest Thayer?
8. "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; all mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe." Lewis Carroll wrote this silly poem. What is its title?
9. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping,suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door; only this, and nothing more." Name this famous poem written by Edgar Allan Poe.
10. "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want." From what Psalm, found in the King James Version of the Bible, is this quote taken?
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