1. For which lyrical poem in 'Palgrave’s Golden Treasury' is this the opening line and, by the way, who was the poet? “Hail to thee, blithe spirit!” W. Wordsworth’s “To the Skylark” P.B. Shelley’s “To a Skylark” T. Campbell’s “To the Evening Star” W. Wordsworth’s “To the Cuckoo”

2. These lines are the opening for which poem (and I need the poet too, please)? “Ethereal Minstrel! Pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?” P.B. Shelley’s “To a Skylark” W. Wordsworth’s “To the Cuckoo” T. Campbell’s “To the Evening Star” W. Wordsworth’s “To the Skylark”

3. Another fragment of an opening verse for you to identify. Please can you name the poet and poem from which this comes? "I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day:" W. Shakespeare’s “Remembrance” P. B. Shelley’s “A Lament" P. B. Shelley’s “The Recollection” T. Hood's "Past and Present"

4. Can you identify the poem (and poet) for which these lines are the opening verse? "Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon." W. Wordsworth’s “The Daffodils” I.M Stuhurn's "Yellow Belt of Flowers" D. Thomas's "Dafydd Odells" R. Herrick's "To Daffodils"

5. "O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June!" Famous lines for sure but who was the poet? R. Burns J. Dryden W. Shakespeare J. Donne

6. Rather playful or perhaps more daring lines in the society of the day? But who do you think wrote them? "Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me," J. Keats T. Hardy W. Shakespeare B. Jonson

7. One of my all time favourite evocative poems begins with these lines of verse. Name the poet and poem please? "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;" G. Herbert’s “The Gifts of God” J. Keats’ “The Human Seasons” W. Drummond’s “The Lessons of Nature” J. Keats' "Ode to Autumn"

8. Another favourite of mine, it has always reminded me of the days when we had to chip the ice from our free school milk when I was growing up as a pupil in my South Wales junior school. Please tell me who the poet is? "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude;" B. Jonson W. Wordsworth R. Marlowe W. Shakespeare

9. In my opinion there are fewer better lines of verse to be had than these gems. A real golden treasure I hope you will agree. But who wrote them? "Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine." R. Burns W. Shakespeare B. Jonson R. Herrick

10. By now I'm sure you'll have conquered all the questions in this quiz and will feel as confident (if not as mistaken) as the view expressed below. But who was the poet Cowper describing in the poem from which I've taken these lines? "I am monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute;" Alexander The Great Ozymandias Alexander Selkirk Napoleon Bonaparte (on Elbe)