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Poets - 10 different ones Trivia Quiz

I will tell you the name of the poet you just have to identify the poem.

A multiple-choice quiz by mnbates. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
mnbates

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
117,386

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
506

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "O Woman! In our hours of ease
Uncertain, coy and hard to please."

Which poem by Sir Walter Scott are these lines from? Hint

Marmion

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

The Bride of Lammermoor

The Lady of the Lake

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Question 2 of 10

2. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven."

Which poem by William Wordsworth are these lines from? Hint

The Simplon Pass

French Revolution

There Was a Boy

Ruth

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Question 3 of 10

3. "O Lady! We receive but what we give, and in our life alone does Nature live."

Which poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge are these lines from? Hint

The Ancient Mariner

Dejection: An Ode

Kubla Khan

Love

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Question 4 of 10

4. "There is a tide in the affairs of women, which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where."

Which poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron, are these lines from ? Hint

Childe Harolds Pilgrimage

Don Juan

Maid of Athens

Sonnet on Chillon

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Thou still unravished bride of quietness, thou foster child of silence and slow time."

Which poem by John Keats are these lines from? Hint

Endymion

Lamia

La Belle Dames sans Merci

Ode on a Grecian Urn

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Question 6 of 10

6. "For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace the human dress."

Which poem by William Blake are these lines from ? Hint

To the Muses

The Garden of Love

Nurse's Song

The Divine Image

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Like a star of Heaven, In the broad daylight." Which poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley are these lines from ? Hint

To the Moon

To a Skylark

The Question

Prometheus Unbound

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Question 8 of 10

8. "No more, where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."

Which poem by Thomas Gray are these lines from? Hint

Ode on the Spring

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude

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Question 9 of 10

9. "I often wished that I had clear, for life, six hundred pounds a year".

Which poem by Jonathan Swift are these lines from? Hint

Cadenus and Vanessa

Imitation of Horace

The Country Life

My Ladies Lamentation

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Question 10 of 10

10. "The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace."

Which poem by Andrew Marvell are these lines from? Hint

The Definition of Love

To His Coy Mistress

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn

The Garden

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "O Woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please." Which poem by Sir Walter Scott are these lines from?

Answer: Marmion

Later in 'Marmion' he does write, "When pain and anguish wring the
brow, a ministering angel thou!"

2. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven." Which poem by William Wordsworth are these lines from?

Answer: French Revolution

I cannot agree with the object of his sentiment, but I admire the
way he expresses it.

3. "O Lady! We receive but what we give, and in our life alone does Nature live." Which poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge are these lines from?

Answer: Dejection: An Ode

I also admire his 'Epigram on a Volunteer Singer': "Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing, did certain persons die before they sing".

4. "There is a tide in the affairs of women, which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where." Which poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron, are these lines from ?

Answer: Don Juan

He is spoofing Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'.

5. "Thou still unravished bride of quietness, thou foster child of silence and slow time." Which poem by John Keats are these lines from?

Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" from 'Endymion' is perhaps his most often quoted line.

6. "For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace the human dress." Which poem by William Blake are these lines from ?

Answer: The Divine Image

Blake wrote more than just the widely-remembered "Tyger, tyger burning bright, in the forests of the night" from 'The Tyger'.

7. "Like a star of Heaven, In the broad daylight." Which poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley are these lines from ?

Answer: To a Skylark

The line usually quoted from the poem is "Hail to thee blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert."

8. "No more, where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." Which poem by Thomas Gray are these lines from?

Answer: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

"The curfew tolls the knell of passing day, the lowing herd walks
slowly o'er the lea" is often quoted from "Elegy written in a
Country Churchyard".

9. "I often wished that I had clear, for life, six hundred pounds a year". Which poem by Jonathan Swift are these lines from?

Answer: Imitation of Horace

It is an imitation of Ode 6.1 of 'Odes' of Horace which starts

"Hoc erat in votis: Modus agri non ita magnus" - "This I prayed for: A plot of land not too large".

10. "The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace." Which poem by Andrew Marvell are these lines from?

Answer: To His Coy Mistress

'To His Coy Mistress' was quoted by David Niven in the great British film 'A Matter of Life and Death' viz. "At my back I always hear, Times winged chariot hurrying near, and yonder all before us lie, deserts of vast eternity."

Source: Author mnbates

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