On a Poet’s Birthday – Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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 Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson whose birthday is on August 6th.

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• Question of

  Sunset and evening —, And one clear call for me!

  

  • star
  • sky
• Question of

  And may there be no — of the bar, When I put out to sea,

  

  • moaning
  • groaning
• Question of

  But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for — and foam,

  

  • sound
  • waves
• Question of

  When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns — home.

  

  • again
  • toward
• Question of

  Twilight and evening bell, And after that the —!

  

  • dark
  • night
• Question of

  And — there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark;

  

  • may
  • let
• Question of

  For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place The — may bear me far,

  

  • tide
  • flood
• Question of

  I — to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.

  

  • hope
  • yearn

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