DEAD POETS |
Which famous poet - now deceased - wrote the following lines? |
1. | Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death. |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson - "Charge of the Light Brigade" |
2. | Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Ozymandias" |
3. | Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size |
| Maya Angelou - "Phenomenal Woman" |
4. | But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, |
| Pablo Neruda - "If You Forget Me" |
5. | Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, |
| Edgar Allen Poe -"The Raven" |
6. | But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. |
| Walt Whitman - "O Captain, My Captain," |
7. | Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. |
| Dylan Thomas - "Do not go gentle in to that good night" |
8. | To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up. |
| Ogden Nash - "A Word to Husbands" |
9. | f the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. |
| Sylvia Plath - "The Rival" |
10. | And into my garden stole. When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning glad I see, My foe outstretchd beneath the tree. |
| William Blake - "The Poison Tree" |