Quiz  /  Poetry: First Lines Quiz

  • 1. 
    “The art of losing isn’t hard to master”

  • Emily Dickinson
  • Robert Lowell
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • William Carlos Williams

  • 2. 
    “I caught this morning morning’s minion, kingdom of daylight’s dauphin,…”

  • Dylan Thomas
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron

  • 3. 
    “When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me;”

  • Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Robert Browning
  • Matthew Arnold
  • Christina Rossetti

  • 4. 
    “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state,”

  • John Donne
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • William Shakespeare
  • Sir Philip Sidney

  • 5. 
    “Booth led boldly with his big bass drum— / (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)”

  • Vachel Lindsay
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Charlotte Mew
  • Ezra Pound

  • 6. 
    “Coming by evening through the wintry city / We said that art is out of love with life.”

  • Adrienne Rich
  • James Wright
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • W.H. Auden

  • 7. 
    “I was so sick last night I / Didn’t hardly know my mind.”

  • Dylan Thomas
  • Langston Hughes
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • 8. 
    “Exultation is the going / Of an inland soul to sea,—”

  • Emily Dickinson
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • John Donne
  • Walt Whitman

  • 9. 
    “You can get there from here, though / there’s no going home.”

  • Rita Dove
  • Claudia Rankine
  • Audre Lorde
  • Natasha Trethewey

  • 10. 
    “Go and catch a falling star, / Get with child a mandrake root,”

  • John Milton
  • John Donne
  • William Shakespeare
  • Robert Greene
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