Poetry Given the Quote Give the Author

Question 1

The mind is its own place, and in itself/Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n

Answer 1

Milton

Question 2

Full fathom five thy father lies

Answer 2

Shakespeare

Question 3

If you can keep your head when all about you

Answer 3

Kipling

Question 4

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

Answer 4

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Question 5

If music be the food of love, play on

Answer 5

Shakespeare

Question 6

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

Answer 6

Shakespeare

Question 7

What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare

Answer 7

W.H. Davies

Question 8

The moving finger writes; and, having writ,/Moves on

Answer 8

Edward Fitzgerald

Question 9

They also serve who only stand and wait

Answer 9

Milton

Question 10

The quality of mercy is not strained

Answer 10

Shakespeare

Question 11

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

Answer 11

Coleridge

Question 12

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

Answer 12

Shakespeare

Question 13

Shall I compare thee to a summers day

Answer 13

Shakespeare

Question 14

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

Answer 14

Keats

Question 15

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

Answer 15

Keats

Question 16

Do not go gentle into that good night

Answer 16

Dylan Thomas

Question 17

Busy old fool, unruly sun

Answer 17

John Donne

Question 18

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone

Answer 18

Auden

Question 19

Human kind/Cannot bear very much reality

Answer 19

T.S. Eliot

Question 20

O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo

Answer 20

Shakespeare

Question 21

The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Answer 21

Shakespeare

Question 22

The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est

Answer 22

Wilfred Owen

Question 23

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

Answer 23

Gertrude Stein

Question 24

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

Answer 24

Jenny Joseph

Question 25

I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.

Answer 25

Joyce Kilmer

Question 26

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

Answer 26

Alexander Pope

Question 27

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

Answer 27

Shakespeare

Question 28

I grow old... I grow old.../I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

Answer 28

T.S. Eliot

Question 29

The time has come', the Walrus said,/'To talk of many things'

Answer 29

Lewis Carroll

Question 30

A narrow fellow in the grass

Answer 30

Emily Dickinson

Question 31

Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all

Answer 31

Keats

Question 32

To be or not to be: that is the question

Answer 32

Shakespeare

Question 33

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Answer 33

John McCrae

Question 34

The proper study of mankind is man

Answer 34

Alexander Pope

Question 35

A little learning is a dangerous thing

Answer 35

Alexander Pope

Question 36

But at my back I always hear/Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near

Answer 36

Marvell

Question 37

Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker

Answer 37

Ogden Nash

Question 38

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

Answer 38

Shakespeare

Question 39

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold

Answer 39

W.B. Yeats

Question 40

Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me

Answer 40

Emily Dickinson

Question 41

Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all

Answer 41

Tennyson

Question 42

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

Answer 42

Shelley

Question 43

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

Answer 43

Tennyson

Question 44

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

Answer 44

W.B. Yeats

Question 45

This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper

Answer 45

T.S. Eliot

Question 46

And miles to go before I sleep

Answer 46

Robert Frost

Question 47

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Answer 47

Wordsworth

Question 48

The child is father of the man

Answer 48

Wordsworth

Question 49

I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul

Answer 49

William Ernest Henley

Question 50

To err is human; to forgive, divine

Answer 50

Alexander Pope