Lines from Poems (Creatures Great and Small)

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1. Which British poet wrote the following:- "And age'd thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom." John Keats John Milton John Donne Thomas Hardy

2. Which poet wrote the following lines? "I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee;" Phillip Larkin W.B. Yeats Robert Frost Robert Browning

3. This poet is also an author. Who penned these lines? "After the burial-parties leave And the baffled kites have fled; The wise hyaenas come out at eve To take account of our dead." James Joyce Ted Hughes C. Day Lewis Rudyard Kipling

4. An easy one for all who celebrate 25th January. "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!" Robert Burns Gordon Geddes Robert Louis Stevenson William McGonagall

5. Which poet penned the following lines? "No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows" Dylan Thomas W. H. Davies R.S. Thomas Ted Hughes

6. The following lines were written by which poet? "Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door, His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss" Ezra Pound Louis McNiece T.S. Eliot W.H. Auden

7. Who wrote about man's best friend? "For years we've had a little dog, Last year we acquired a big dog; He wasn't big when we got him, He was littler than the dog we had." Stevie Smith Eleanor Farjeon Ogden Nash Edward Lear

8. The following lines are taken from a very well-known poem. Who is the poet? "'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champ'd the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor" Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor Farjeon Walter de la Mare Christina Rossetti

9. The poet who wrote the following lines is, perhaps, more famous as a novelist: "The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart." R.L. Stevenson Lewis Carrol Rudyard Kipling Edgar Allan Poe

10. Which 'William' wrote the following? "Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" William Shakespeare William Blake William Wordsworth William Makepeace Thackery