Poems that Could be Quoted

Question 1

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea…

Answer 1

Shakespeare Sonnet 65

Question 2

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

Answer 2

Shakespeare Sonnet 73

Question 3

Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you

Answer 3

Holy Sonnet 14

John Donne

Question 4

Shame is a shadow cast by sin: yet shame

Answer 4

Later Life: Sonnet 13

Christina Rossetti

Question 5

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir

Answer 5

Cargoes

John Masefield

Question 6

The whiskey on your breath

Could make a small boy dizzy;

Answer 6

My Papa’s Waltz

Theodore Roethke

Question 7

Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen

Answer 7

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Adrienne Rich

Question 8

you fit into me

like a hook into an eye

Answer 8

You fit into me

Margaret Atwood

Question 9

Welcome to the endless high-school

Answer 9

The Facebook Sonnet

Sherman Alexie

Question 10

Money, thou bane of bliss and source of woe

Answer 10

Avarice

George Herbert

Question 11

I think of thee!–my thoughts do twine and bud

Answer 11

Sonnet 29

Elizabeth Barret Browning

Question 12

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

Answer 12

Those Winter Sundays

BY ROBERT HAYDEN

Question 13

Still will I harvest beauty where it grows:

In coloured fungus and the spotted fog

Answer 13

Edna St Vincent Millay, “Still will I harvest beauty where it grows”

Question 14

We Reall Cool. We

Left school. We

Answer 14

We Real Cool

Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 15

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Answer 15

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost