Sonnet Test Review

Question 1

“Drowned is reason that should me comfort / and I remain despairing of the port.”

Answer 1

My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness

Question 2

“Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.”

Answer 2

Whoso List to Hunt

Question 3

“Noli me tangere / for Caesar’s I am.”

Answer 3

Whoso List to Hunt

Question 4

“So every sweet with soure is tempred still…”

Answer 4

Sonnet 26

Question 5

“Strange thing, me seemd, to see a beast so wyld / so goodly wonne, with her owne will beguld.”

Answer 5

Sonnet 67

Question 6

“My verse your virtues rare shall eternalize / and in the heavens write your glorious name.”

Answer 6

Sonnet 75

Question 7

“And if these things, as being thine by right / move not thy heavy grace, thou shall in me…Stella’s image see.”

Answer 7

Sonnet 39

Question 8

“Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines.”

Answer 8

Sonnet 18

Question 9

“In me thou seest the twilight of such day / as after sunset fadeth in the west.”

Answer 9

Sonnet 73

Question 10

“If this be error upon me proved / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

Answer 10

Sonnet 116

Question 11

“I love to hear her speak, yet well I know / that music hath a far more pleasing sound.”

Answer 11

Sonnet 130

Question 12

“One short sleep past, we wake eternally / and death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”

Answer 12

Death Be Not Proud

Question 13

“As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.”

Answer 13

Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God

Question 14

“Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth / that I to manhood am arrived so near.”

Answer 14

On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three

Question 15

“All is, if I have grace to use it so / as ever in my great Task-Master’s Eye.”

Answer 15

On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three

Question 16

“When I consider how my light is spent / e’re half my days, in this dark world and wide.”

Answer 16

On His Blindness

Question 17

“They also serve who only stand and waite.”

Answer 17

On His Blindness

Question 18

“Milton! Thou shold’st be living at this hour!”

Answer 18

London, 1802

Question 19

“Great God! I’d rather be a pagan suckled in a creed outworn.”

Answer 19

The World Is Too Much With Us

Question 20

“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! / Nothing beside remains.”

Answer 20

Ozymandias

Question 21

“Still unchangeable / pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening breast.”

Answer 21

Bright Star, Were I Steadfast As Thou Art

Question 22

“Why do men not reck his rod? / Generations have trod, have trod, have trod.”

Answer 22

God’s Grandeur

Question 23

“And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell.”

Answer 23

God’s Grandeur

Question 24

“For rose-moles all in stipple under trout that swim.”

Answer 24

Pied Beauty

Question 25

“He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change. / Praise him.”

Answer 25

Pied Beauty

Question 26

“When then should I accompt of little paine / That endlesse pleasure shall unto me gaine!”

Answer 26

Sonnet 26

Question 27

“The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe.”

Answer 27

Sonnet 39

Question 28

“Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade / when in eternal lines to time thou growest.”

Answer 28

Sonnet 18

Question 29

“And when I fear, fair creature of an hour / that I shall never look upon thee more…”

Answer 29

When I Have Fears

Question 30

“Before my pen has gleaned by teeming brain.”

Answer 30

When I Have Fears