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Love Letters in Poetry

Love Letters in Poetry Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Poetic Expressions of Love

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous love letter poem begins with the line, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."?

  1. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  2. Love Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which poem does the speaker compare their love to a "red, red rose"?

  1. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which love letter poem contains the line, "If I can ever learn well enough,
If thinking, feeling, desiring,
If blood, skin, nerve, if all of life is not
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope"?

  1. Sonnet 18 by Pablo Neruda
  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  3. I Carry Your Heart with Me(I Carry It in My Heart) by E.E. Cummings
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which poem does the speaker write, "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace."?

  1. How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which love letter poem begins with the line, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments."?

  1. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  3. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
  4. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which poem does the speaker compare their love to a "nightingale's song"?

  1. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
  2. Love Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which love letter poem contains the line, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."?

  1. Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which poem does the speaker write, "I love you not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you."?

  1. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  3. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
  4. I Carry Your Heart with Me(I Carry It in My Heart) by E.E. Cummings
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which love letter poem begins with the line, "If I should ever by chance grow bold enough
To make a ship and go sailing"?

  1. Sea Fever by John Masefield
  2. Love Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which poem does the speaker compare their love to a "star, to stay,
Always in my breast"?

  1. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  3. Bright Star by John Keats
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which love letter poem contains the line, "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove"?

  1. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  3. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
  4. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which poem does the speaker write, "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace."?

  1. How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which love letter poem begins with the line, "If I can ever learn well enough,
If thinking, feeling, desiring,
If blood, skin, nerve, if all of life is not
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope"?

  1. Sonnet 18 by Pablo Neruda
  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  3. I Carry Your Heart with Me(I Carry It in My Heart) by E.E. Cummings
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which poem does the speaker compare their love to a "nightingale's song"?

  1. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
  2. Love Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which love letter poem contains the line, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."?

  1. Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
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