Famous Lines in Poems
Which poems do the following lines come from? And can you name the poets who wrote them?
Poetry Quiz: famous line - year written
- If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same. - 1909
- I wandered lonely as a cloud. - 1802 (Note: We're looking for the common short name of this poem!)
- ‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - 1850
- A little learning is a dang'rous thing. - 1711
- Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. - 1798
- Not with a bang but a whimper. - 1925
- They dined on mince and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon. - 1870
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever. - 1818
- Shall I compare thee to a summers day. - 1609
- April is the Cruellest Month. - 1922
- I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. - 1875
- If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field, that is for ever England. - 1915
The Poems and the Poets
- If (Rudyard Kipling)
- Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
- In Memoriam A.H.H. (by Lord, Alfred Tennyson)
- An Essay on Criticism (by Alexander Pope)
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
- The Hollow Men (T.S. Eliot)
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (a nonsense poem by Edward Lear)
- Endymion (John Keats)
- Sonnet 18 (one of the best-known sonnets of William Shakespeare)
- The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
- Invictus (William Ernest Henley)
- The Soldier (Rupert Brooke)