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Friday Poetry Trivia Time......

8 Years Ago



POETRY TRIVIA
1) What poet wrote the following lines?
FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty's rose might never die.
Choose Your Answer: A: Percy Bysshe Shelley, B: Lord Byron, C: William Shakespeare, D: Geoffrey Chaucer

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8 Years Ago


I gonna take a wild guess and say Shakespeare.

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William Shakespeare is probably the only one I know among these people, so I'll just guess William Shakespeare! :p

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I am going to guess Geoffrey Chaucer.

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The Correct Answer is
 C: William Shakespeare

 Sonnet 1

From fairest creatures we desire increase, 
That thereby beauty's rose might never die, 
But as the riper should by time decease, 
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies, 
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament 
And only herald to the gaudy spring, 
Within thine own bud buriest thy content 
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. 
    Pity the world, or else this glutton be, 
    To eat the world's due, by the grave and th

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8 Years Ago


That was fun :)  thanks for playing along 

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