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Important lines from Poems
Important lines from Poems ( Part B-Literature )
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Question 1 |
“The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more”.
These lines are taken from the poem …………
The Solitary Reaper | |
The man he killed | |
Be the best | |
Women’s right |
Question 2 |
To which poem these lines belong?
“O listen! for the vale profound
Is overflowering with the sound”
The Solitary Reaper | |
Beautiful Inside | |
A Psalm of Life | |
The Apology |
Question 3 |
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tirecess striving stretches its arms towards perfection”
In which poem do these lines occur?
No men are foreign | |
Where the mind is without fear | |
The cry of the children | |
Going for water |
Question 4 |
“Love’s not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks”. In which poem this line is taken from…………..
Solitary Reaper | |
Be the Best | |
A Psalm of Life | |
Sonnet No.116 |
Question 5 |
Who wrote this line? “Life is but an empty dream!”
William Wordsworth | |
H.W. Longfellow | |
Robert Frost | |
William Shakespeare |
Question 6 |
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
In which poem do these lines occur?
Is life, But a Dream? | |
Be The Best | |
O Captain! My Captain! | |
Sonnet No. 116 |
Question 7 |
In which poem do the following lines occur?
There’s something for all of us here.
There’s big work to do and there’s lesser to do
Travel Plant | |
Be The Best | |
No Men Are Foreign | |
Manliness |
Question 8 |
Match the lines under Column A with poets under Column B and select the correct option from the codes given below
Column A | Column B |
(a) In a wonderland they lie | 1. H.W. Longfellow |
(b) There’s something for all of us here | 2. Thomas Hardy |
(c) Yes quaint and curious war is | 3. Douglas Malloch |
(d) Not enjoyment and not sorrow | 4. Lewis Carroll |
4 3 1 2 | |
3 4 1 2 | |
4 3 2 1 | |
2 4 1 3 |
Question 9 |
Match the lines under Column A with the poets under Column B
Column A | Column B |
(a) For learning how to rule the air | 1. Lewis Carroll |
(b) Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream | 2. Stephen Vincent Benet |
(c) If you can’t be a sun, be a star | 3. Walt Whitman |
(d) But I, with mournful tread | 4. Douglas Malloch |
4 2 1 3 | |
3 2 1 4 | |
2 4 1 3 | |
2 1 4 3 |
Question 10 |
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Who is the author of these poetic lines?
H.W. Longfellow | |
Robert Frost | |
Rudyard Kipling | |
Walt Whitman |
Question 11 |
“Be a hero in the strife” – In whose poem this line comes?
Shakespeare | |
Walt Whitman · | |
Wordsworth | |
H.W. Longfellow |
Question 12 |
In whose poem the following lines occur:
“It isn’t by size that you’ win or you fail
Be the best of whatever you are”
Douglas Malloch | |
William Wordsworth | |
Walt Whitman | |
William Shakespeare |
Question 13 |
Which of the following lines belongs to “William Shakespeare”?
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks
But bears it out even to the edge of the doom
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But O heart ! heart ! heart
O the bleeding drops O red !
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For I’m off to outer space tomorrow morning· | |
The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more
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Question 14 |
In whose poem the following lines occur:
“No Nightingale did ever Chaunt
More welcome notes to Weary bands”.
Robert Frost | |
John Keats | |
William Wordsworth | |
Robert Bridges |
Question 15 |
In whose poem the following line occurs?
“We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew”.
Walt Whitman | |
Doughlas Malloch | |
Hope Spencer | |
Rudyard Kipling |
Question 16 |
“O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken”
These lines are from the poem
Shilpi | |
Is Life But a Dream | |
The Man He Killed | |
Sonnet No. 116 |
Question 17 |
Find out from which poem the following line is taken?
“Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection”.
Prayer of a sporta man | |
Nine gold medals | |
Out in the fields with God | |
Where the mind is without fear |
Question 18 |
The following lines are taken from the poem ——-
“O Listen to the vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound”
English words | |
Sonnet – 112 | |
The Solitary Reaper | |
0 Captain my Captain |
Question 19 |
Pick out the line which occurs in the poem “Sonnet No – 116”.
This arm beneath your head! · | |
Or bends with the remover to remove. | |
Will no one tell me what she sings? | |
Be the best of whatever you are! |
Question 20 |
Name the poet in whose poem the following line occurs.
‘We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew’.
William Shakespeare | |
Thomas Hardy | |
Annie Louisa Walker | |
Douglas Malloch |
Question 21 |
“Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit”
These words occur in the poem of
Shakespeare | |
V.K. Gokak | |
Kamala Das | |
Rabindranath Tagore |
Question 22 |
Reaping and Singing by herself stop here, or gently pass!
– Wrote the above poetic lines.
Norman Nicholson | |
William Shakespeare | |
William Wordsworth | |
Douglas Malloch |
Question 23 |
“If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail”
The poetic line is from the poem
You can’t be that, no you can’t be that | |
Where the mind is without fear | |
Be the best | |
The Solitary Reaper |
Question 24 |
Complete the following poetic line choosing from the option given below.
“There won’t be any calendar, there won’t be
last look | |
telephone book | |
any clock | |
plastic hook |
Question 25 |
Identify the poet who wrote the following lines :
“If this be error and upon me prov’d
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.”
Walt Whitman | |
William Wordsworth | |
William Shakespeare | |
H.W. Longfellow |
Question 26 |
Mention the poem in which the following lines appear :
“Life is real ! Life is earnest !
And the grave is not its goal;”
Find out the correct option from the following :
Where the mind is without fear | |
English words | |
A Tiger in the zoo | |
Psalm of life |
Question 27 |
In which of the poems does the following line occur?
Stop here, or gently pass !
Pick out the correct answer from the options given below ·
Laugh and Be Merry | |
The Solitary Reaper | |
Sonnet No. 116 | |
The Cry of the Children |
Question 28 |
Mention the poem in which the following lines appear
“Love’s not time’s fool, though Rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending Sickle’s Compass come”
Choose the answer from the options given below :
Be the Best | |
Sonnet No. 116 | |
The Solitary Reaper | |
Is life but a dream |
Question 29 |
The well-known poet who has written the following lines are :
“I saw her singing at her work
And over the sickle bending”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
William Wordsworth | |
Robert Frost | |
H. W. Longfellow | |
Thomas Hardy |
Question 30 |
In which poem do these following lines occur:
“O! no it is an ever fixed mark
That looks on Tempest and is never shaken”
Sonnet No: 116 | |
A Psalm of Life | |
Manliness | |
Be the Best |
Question 31 |
Name the poet in whose poem the following line occurs:
‘Life is real ! Life is earnest !’
V.K Gokak | |
Douglas Malloch | |
H.W. Longfellow | |
Rabindranath Tagore |
Question 32 |
‘It isn’t by size that you win or you fail’ –
The given lines are taken from the poem
A Psalm of Life | |
Where the Mind is Without Fear | |
Be the best | |
Sonnet No : 116 |
Question 33 |
….. ‘Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds’
Who said this?
Rabindranath Tagore | |
William Wordsworth | |
H.W. Longfellow | |
William Shakespeare |
Question 34 |
Identify the poet who wrote the following line:
“If you can’t be the sun, be a star”.
Douglas Malloch | |
Tennyson | |
William Wordsworth | |
Robert Frost |
Question 35 |
In which of the following poems, does the following line occur?
“We can’t all be Captains, we’ve got to be crew,
There’s something for all of us here”.
0 Captain! My Captain! | |
The Solitary Reaper | |
Mercy and Justice | |
Be the best |
Question 36 |
Identify the poet who wrote the following lines :
“Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal”
Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
H.W. Longfellow | |
V.K Gokak | |
D.H. Lawrence |
Question 37 |
Name the poem in which the following lines appear:
No nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands..
A Psalm of life | |
Going for water | |
Ode to a nightingale | |
The Solitary Reaper |
Question 38 |
Which of the following lines belong to H.W. Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”?
And you 0 my soul where you stand | |
All human roads are dark and dry | |
Your minstrel has no wreath to weave for you | |
Art is long and time is fleeting |
Question 39 |
Choose the option containing the author of the following lines
“No Nightingale did ever chant
More welcome notes to weary bands”.
Hopkins in ‘Laugh and be Merry’ | |
Khalil Gibran in ‘Earth’ | |
Wordsworth in “The Solitary Reaper | |
Kamala Das in “Punishment in the Kindergarten” |
Question 40 |
The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more”
These lines appear in——
Be the best | |
Tables turned | |
A Psalm of Life | |
The Solitary Reaper |
Question 41 |
The following lines are taken from the poem
‘The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more’.
‘A Psalm of Life’ | |
Sonnet No. 116’ | |
‘Be The Best’ | |
‘The Solitary Reaper’ |
Question 42 |
Identify the poet in whose work do the following lines occur?
‘Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds’.
William Wordsworth | |
H.W. Longfellow | |
William Blake | |
William Shakespeare |
Question 43 |
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream’.
These lines are from the poem
A Psalm of Life’ | |
The Solitary Reaper’ | |
Sonnet No. 116’ | |
Where the Mind is Without Fear’ |
Question 44 |
‘Where the mind is without fear
And the head is held high’
The given lines are written by
Rudyard Kipling | |
Rabindranath Tagore | |
Robert Frost | |
Robert Browning |
Question 45 |
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary desert
sand of dead habit”
These lines are taken from the poem
A Psalm of Life | |
Be The Best | |
Where the Mind is Without Fear | |
The Solitary Reaper |
Question 46 |
Identify the poet who wrote the following lines :
“It isn’t by size that you win or you fail-
Be the best of whatever you are!”
William Wordsworth | |
Norman Nicholson | |
V.K. Gokak | |
Douglas Malloch |
Question 47 |
In which of the poem does the following occur?
We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew
Be the Best | |
Snake | |
Gitanjali | |
Women’s Rights |
Question 48 |
The following poetic lines are from
If this be error and upon me prov’d,
I never write, nor no man ever lov’d.
William Wordsworth | |
William Shakespeare | |
D.H. Lawrence | |
Walt Whitman |
Question 49 |
Complete the following poetic line choosing from the options given
If you can’t be the sun, —–
be a hero | |
be a star | |
be a leader | |
be a player |
Question 50 |
Life is but an empty dream!
This line is an extract from the poem.
Hopes and Dreams | |
Is life, but a dream | |
A Psalm of life | |
Laugh and be merry |
Question 51 |
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides
These lines belong to the poem—-.
In which poem do the following lines occur?
The Blind Boy | |
Give me the Strength | |
The Solitary Reaper | |
Travel Plans |
Question 52 |
We can’t all be captains,
We’ve got to be crew,
Who is the poet of this line?
Douglas Malloch | |
Lewis Caroll | |
Randall Jarell | |
Brian Paltern |
Question 53 |
If this be error and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.
Who is the poet?
Keats | |
Wordsworth | |
Robert Frost | |
Shakespeare |
Question 54 |
Match the following poetics lines under column A with their poems under column B and select the answer from the codes given below.
Column A | Column B |
(a) It isn’t by size that you win or fail | 1. Sonnet No : 116 |
(b) If this be error and upon be proved I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d | 2. A Pslam of life |
(c) But once within the wood, we paused Like gnomes that hid us from the moon | 3. Be the best |
(d) Let the dead past bury its head | 4. going for water |
4 2 3 1 | |
3 1 4 2 | |
1 3 2 4 | |
2 4 1 3 |
Question 55 |
We can’t all be captain, we’ve got to be crew
There is something for all of us here”
These lines are from the poem
O captain, my captain | |
Be the Best | |
A Psalm of life | |
Our local team |
Question 56 |
Which of the following lines does not belong to Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet no 116’?
O ! no it is an ever fixed mark | |
It is the star to every wandering bark | |
Echoes fade and memories die | |
Love’s not time’s fool |
Question 57 |
Which of the following lines do not belong to Shakespeare’s Sonnet no : 116?
O’, no! it is an ever-fixed mark | |
It is the star to every wandering bark | |
Echoes fade and memories die… | |
Love’s not Time’s fool |
Question 58 |
“Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls”
Name the poet who dreamt of a world with equality and harmony.
Ruskin Bond | |
Robert Frost | |
Rabindranath Tagore | |
Walt Whitman |
Question 59 |
In which of the poem the following line occurs?
If you can’t be the Sun, be a Star
Be the Best | |
Going for water | |
A noiseless patient spider | |
Migrant Bird |
Question 60 |
‘Love alters not with his brier hours and weeks’
Mention the poem in which these lines occur.
sonnet No: 116 | |
The Solitary Reaper | |
Be the Best | |
Going for water |
Question 61 |
Identify the personality who uttered the following.
‘Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection’
Rudyard Kipling | |
Berton Braley | |
Rabindranath Tagore | |
Ruskin Bond |
Question 62 |
In which poem do you find the following line?
“It isn’t by size that you win or you Fail”
O Captain! My Captain | |
The Solitary Reaper | |
Sonnet No – 116 | |
Be the Best |
Question 63 |
‘Love’s not ‘Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks’
Choose the poem where you find the above lines :
A Sonnet for my Incomparable Mother | |
My Grand-Mother’s House | |
Sonnet No – 116 | |
Nine Gold Medals |
Question 64 |
Match the titles of the poem ‘A’ with lines of the poem ‘B’ :
Column A | Column B |
(a) Art is long and time is fleeting | 1. English words |
(b) Love’s not time’s fool | 2. A Psalm of life |
(c) Pinning for new agony | 3. The man he killed |
(d) Right many a nipper kin | 4. Sonnet-116 |
4 2 3 1 | |
3 2 4 1 | |
2 4 1 3 | |
4 1 3 2 |
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