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Children and Animals
The Country and the City, or Nature and Human Nature
Altered States
Love and Troubles
Potpourri
100
Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the lamb make thee?
What is Blake's "The Tyger"?
100
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay.
What is Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud"?
100
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
What is Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"?
100
But most, through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot's curse Blasts the new-born infant's tear, And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
What is Blake's "London"?
100
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
What is Shelley's Ozymandias?
200
Because I was happy upon the heath, And smiled among the winter's snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe.
What is Blake's "Chimney Sweeper" (Songs of Experience)
200
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune…
What is Wordsworth's "The World is too Much With Us"?
200
Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays...
What is Keat's "Ode to a Nightingale?"
200
Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side; "The curse is come upon me," cried ____________
What is Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott"?
200
She clipped a precious golden lock, She dropped a tear more rare than pearl, Then sucked their fruit globes fair or red: Sweeter than honey from the rock, Stronger than man-rejoicing wine, Clearer than water flowed that juice; She never tasted such before, How should it cloy with length of use?
What is Rossetti's "Goblin Market"?
300
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown:
What is Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale"?
300
And, for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs – Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
What is Hopkins's "God's Grandeur"?
300
that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,-- Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul:
What is Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey?"
300
But passion sometimes would prevail, Nor could tonight's gay feast restrain A sudden thought of one so pale For love of her, and all in vain: So, she was come through wind and rain.
What is Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"?
300
She looked over his shoulder For ritual pieties, White flower-garlanded heifers, Libation and sacrifice, But there on the shining metal Where the altar should have been, She saw by his flickering forge-light Quite another scene.
What is Auden's "The Shield of Achilles"?
400
Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know— Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now!
What is Shelley's "To a Skylark"?
400
Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
What is Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"?
400
I am the artful voyeur of your brain's exposed and darkened combs, your muscles' webbing and all your numbered bones:
What is Heaney's "Punishment"?
400
(Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st! Yea, one wast thou with me That once of old. But shall God lift To endless unity The soul whose likeness with thy soul Was but its love for thee?)
What is Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel"?
400
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever-dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose Fast withereth too.
What is Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"?
500
Sometimes thro' hollow bowl Of pipe amused we blew, and sent aloft The floating bubbles, little dreaming then To see, Mongolfier, thy silken ball Ride buoyant through the clouds–so near approach The sports of children and the toils of men.
What is Barbauld's "Washing-Day"?
500
The sooty chimney-boy, with dingy face And tatter'd covering, shrilly bawls his trade, Rousing the sleepy housemaid. At the door The milk-pail rattles, and the tinkling bell Proclaims the dustman's office; while the street Is lost in clouds impervious. Now begins The din of hackney-coaches, waggons, carts; While tinmen's shops, and noisy trunk-makers, Knife-grinders, coopers, squeaking cork-cutters, Fruit barrows, and the hunger-giving cries Of vegetable venders, fill the air.
What is Mary Robinson's "London's Summer-Morning"?
500
The wild blast, rising from the Western cave, 5 Drives the huge billows from their heaving bed; Tears from their grassy tombs the village dead, And breaks the silent sabbath of the grave!
What is Charlotte Smith's "Written in the Churchyard"?
500
More happy love! more happy, happy love! Forever warm and still to be enjoyed, Forever panting, and forever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
What is Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
500
The yellow fog came creeping down 
 The bridges, till the houses' walls 
 Seemed changed to shadows, and St. Paul's 
 Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
What is Wilde's "Impression du Matin"?