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On a Poet’s Birthday – Autumn Song by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series of quizzes, will take a poem by a famous poet on their birthday and ask you to fill in the missing words. The poem for this quiz is Autumn Song by by Victorian poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti whose birthday is on May 12th

  • Question of

    Know’st thou not at the — of the leaf

    • fall
    • death
  • Question of

    How the heart feels a — grief Laid on it for a covering,

    • Languid
    • Solemn
  • Question of

    And how sleep seems a — thing In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?

    • pleasing
    • goodly
  • Question of

    And how the — beat of the brain Falters because it is in vain,

    • swift
    • quick
  • Question of

    In Autumn at the fall of the leaf — thou not?

    • Thinkest
    • Knowest
  • Question of

    and how the chief Of joys seems—not to suffer —?

    • pain
    • rain
  • Question of

    Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the — feels like a dried sheaf

    • soul
    • heart
  • Question of

    Bound up at length for harvesting, And how death seems a — thing In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?

    • comely
    • handsome

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