GREAT LINES OF POETRY

Provide the missing word from the line of poetry. (e.g., “If music be the food of ____, play on,” William Shakespeare. Answer: Love.)

Freshman level

1. “To be or not to be, that is the ____,” William Shakespeare.

2. “Do not go ____ into that good night,” Dylan Thomas.

3. “And miles to go before I ____,” Robert Frost.

4. “The ____ comes on little cat feet,” Carl Sandburg.

5. “I wandered lonely as a ____,” William Wordsworth.

Graduate level

6. “Because I could not stop for ____,” Emily Dickinson.

7. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s ____?” William Shakespeare.

8. “I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my ____,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

9. “Two ____ diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by,” Robert Frost.

10. “What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and ____,” W.H. Davies.

Answers: 1. Question. 2. Gentle. 3. Sleep. 4. Fog. 5. Cloud. 6. Death. 7. Day. 8. Life. 9. Roads. 10. Stare.

— North America Syndicate