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More Great Lines From Poetry Trivia Quiz

Try these lines from some classic poems. Might be difficult.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
66,596

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1937

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ... Hint

Edgar Allan Poe

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Christina Rossetti

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'The menace of the years finds and shall find me, unafraid ...' Hint

Alexander Pope

William Ernest Henley

Robert Browning

Carl Sandburg

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, when I awoke and found the dawn was grey ...' Hint

Ernest Dowson

John Clare

Robert Burns

William Cowper

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'And that is why I sojourn here alone and palely loitering ...' Hint

Percy Shelley

John Keats

Lord Byron

William Wordsworth

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won ...' Hint

Walt Whitman

Rudyard Kipling

John Masefield

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'And I had done an hellish thing and it would work 'em woe ...' Hint

Robert Frost

Alan Seeger

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms ...' Hint

Stephen Spender

W.H. Auden

T.S. Eliot

John Milton

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight and learned, too late, they grieved it on its way ...' Hint

Richard Lovleace

Dylan Thomas

William Blake

Hart Crane

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand and the sound of a voice that is still ...' Hint

Emily Dickinson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A.E. Housman

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'For Man's grim Justice goes its way, and will not swerve aside; it slays the weak, it slays the strong, it has a deadly stride ...' Hint

Matthew Arnold

Oscar Wilde

Thomas Gray

John Donne

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ...

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

'The Raven'. Typical Poe.

2. 'The menace of the years finds and shall find me, unafraid ...'

Answer: William Ernest Henley

'Invictus'. 'I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.' Great poem. Rough life.

3. 'But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, when I awoke and found the dawn was grey ...'

Answer: Ernest Dowson

'I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion ...' Poor Ernest!

4. 'And that is why I sojourn here alone and palely loitering ...'

Answer: John Keats

'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'.

5. 'The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won ...'

Answer: Walt Whitman

''O Captain, My Captain' (After Lincoln's assassination)

6. 'And I had done an hellish thing and it would work 'em woe ...'

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Never shoot an albatross.

7. 'The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms ...'

Answer: T.S. Eliot

'The Hollow Men'. 'This is the way the world ends ... not with a bang, but a whimper.'

8. 'Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight and learned, too late, they grieved it on its way ...'

Answer: Dylan Thomas

'Do Not Go Gentle Into This Good Night'. Old age is tough.

9. 'But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand and the sound of a voice that is still ...'

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

'Break, Break, Break'. 'The tender grace of a day that is dead ...' Masterful.

10. 'For Man's grim Justice goes its way, and will not swerve {aside;} it slays the weak, it slays the strong, it has a deadly stride ...'

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Wilde's 'Ballad of Reading Gaol'. 'and each man kills the thing he loves ...' Poor Oscar!

Source: Author robert362

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