Name that Poet
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Peter Peter pumpkin eater
Had a wife but couldn't keep her
What is trochaic tetrameter?
And I swear by the moon and the stars in the sky
I'll be there
I swear like a shadow that's by your side
I'll be there
For better or worse, till death do us part
I'll love you with every beat of my heart
And I swear
What is a vow? or an oath?
Whose woods these are, I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Who is Robert Frost?
We say good-bye again and again.
As if every kiss, every touch we make will shadow
All our celebrations.
What is a valediction?
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Ah I kept the first for another day
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted I should ever come back.
Who is Robert Frost?
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
What is iambic trimeter?
Love said, You shall be he.
I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
Who made the eyes but I?
What is dialogue?
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
Though foolishly he lost the same,
Decaying more and more,
Till he became
Most poore:
Who is George Herbert?
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
What is carpe diem?
Thou wast not born for death Immortal Bird
No hungry generations tread thee down.
Who is John Keats?
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
What is iambic pentameter?
Come live with me and be my love
What is an invitation?
A Bird, came down the Walk -
He did not know I saw -
He bit an Angle Worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then, he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass -
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass -
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
What is a travel poem?
If I've killed one man, I've killed two--
The Vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years if you want to know.
Daddy you can lie back down now.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
"Hark!" she said; "I hear a rushing,
Hear a roaring and a rushing,
Hear the Falls of Minnehaha
Calling to me from a distance!"
What is trochaic tetrameter?
I didn't turn the TV off.
I didn't shut the light.
Just think of all the energy
I wasted through the night.
What is a confession?
If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!”
Who is Thomas Hardy?
Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb,
The rest complains of cares to come.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields,
To wayward winter reckoning yields,
What is a pastoral?
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
Who is Theodore Roethke?
Away! away! for I will fly to thee
What is iambic pentameter?
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.
What is a boast?
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
What is an elegy?