Match the poem to the title and author.
In a few days, we will enter the golden gates of National Poetry Month. “There’s no money in poetry,” quoth poet laureate Robert Graves, “but there’s also no poetry in money.”While it is true that rhyme doesn’t pay, poets gain a foothold on eternity through their poems, and that luminous immortality outshines the evanescent flash of coins.
Let us not forget that Francis Scott Key’s “Oh say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light/What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming” and Katherine Lee Bates’“America! America! God shed his grace on thee/And crown thy good with brotherhood/From sea to shining sea!” were first written as poems and only after were set to music. What follows are a dozen of the most memorable and enduring lines in the mighty line of American poetry. Identify each quotation by title and author. Answers repose at the end of thiscolumn. 1. Listen, my children, and you will hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere.On the eighteenth of April in seventy-five;Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year. 2. The outlook wasn’t brilliantfor the Mudville nine that day;The score stood four to two,with but one inning more to play. 3. Once upon a midnight dreary,while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curiousvolume of forgotten lore 4. The caged bird sings with a fearful trillof things unknown but longed for stilland his tune is heard on the distant hillfor the caged bird sings of freedom. 5. Behind him lay the gray Azores,Behind the Gates of Hercules;Before him not the ghost of shores,Before him only shoreless seas. 6. O Captain! My Captain!Our fearful trip is done,The ship has weathered every rack.The prize we sought is won.8. Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost, to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!10. The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keepAnd miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.1. “Paul Revere’s Ride,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2. “Casey at the Bat,” Ernest Lawrence Thayer 3. “The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe 4. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,”Maya Angelou 5. “Columbus,” Joaquin Miller 6. “O Captain! My Captain!,” Walt Whitman 7. “Because I could not stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson 8. “The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus 9. “Fog,” Carl Sandburg 10. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Robert Frost 11. “Renascence” Edna St. Vincent Millay 12. “Dream Deferred,” Langston HughesOn Friday, April 25, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, I’ll be emceeing the 11th annual Healthy Aging conference, sponsored by the Rancho Santa Fe SeniorCenter. For information, call 858-756 3041 or visit www.rsfseniorcenter.org.Excess load on transmission line may have caused SDG&E power outage to 103,000 customersFourth Padres suitor becomes publicAir traffic control staffing back to normal at San Diego airport; security delays persistShortage of air traffic controllers triggers heavy delays at San Diego airport Firefighters should take 1 or 2 minutes to prepare for a call. San Diego’s take 4, audit finds. Here’s what’s to blame. Firefighters should take 1 or 2 minutes to prepare for a call. San Diego’s take 4, audit finds. Here’s what’s to blame.
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