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 the famous Home Thoughts, From Abroad by Victorian poet, Robert Browning whose birthday is on May 7th.
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Oh, to be in England Now that April’s —,
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there
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here
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— whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware,
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When
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And
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That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in — leaf,
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budding
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tiny
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While the — sings on the orchard bough In England – now!
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chaffinch
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woodlark
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And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat —, and all the swallows!
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sings
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builds
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Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the — and scatters on the clover
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grass
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field
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— and dewdrops – at the bent spray’s edge –
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Blossoms
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Flowers
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That’s the — thrush; he sings each song twice over,
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wise
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wood
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Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine — rapture!
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joyful
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careless
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And though the fields look — with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
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rough
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coarse
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The buttercups, the little children’s dower – Far brighter than this — melon-flower!
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gaudy
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garish
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