Because I'm bored: idea nicked from
mstakenidentity.
Here are ten lines from various poetic sources (hopefully I've got them right - typed from memory)... name the poem and poet.
For an extra challenge, these are all first or last lines of poems - can you quote the matching first or last lines in each case?
- Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run
- On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye
- Out of the ash I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air
- And when I sue
God for myself, he hears that name of thine
And sees within my eyes the tears of two.
- Let us go then, you and I
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table
- Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad
- So she went into the garden
To pick a cabbage leaf, to make an apple pie
- I met a traveller from an antique land
- So long as men can breathe, and eyes can see
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
- What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?