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1. What poet wrote about the -
"Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days"?
2. "The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls" -
What noble Victorian poet was writing about what subject?
3. What is being described in the following extract from a Southey poem?,
"And glittering and frittering
And gathering and feathering,
And whitening and brightening,
And quivering and shivering,
And hurrying and skurrying,
And thundering and floundering, .... "
4. "Here is a cart run away in the road,
Lumping along with man and load."
In what poem, by Robert Louis Stevenson, do we find this evocative picture?
5. "Back he spurred like a madman, shouting a curse to the sky,
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high."
In this poem, by Alfred Noyes, about a man riding to avenge his dead sweetheart, what is the occupation of the rider?
6. "I fled Him down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind."
What is Francis Thompson talking about in his poem "The Hound of Heaven"?
7. "We swing ungirded hips And lightened are our eyes
The rain is on our lips We do not run for prize
We know not whom we trust Nor whitherward we fare
But we run because we must Through the great wide air."
Who is the poet who wrote "The Song of the Ungirt Runners"?
8. What reluctantly noble poet penned the following lines?
"I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles.
I bubble over eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles."
9. There is something supernaturally disturbing in the poem from which this extract is taken -
"Aye they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward
When the plunging hoofs were gone."
It is called "The Listeners". Who wrote it?
10. It has been said that only one poet would write a poem beginning "Gr-r-r".
What Victorian poet, also known for his dramatic elopement with another poet, actually did so?
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