Only the first question relates to today and the rest then follow a theme.
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky
- A poet born this day in 1928 wrote the above, who was the poet?
- Maya Angelou
- Octavia Butler
- Toni Morrison
The Robin to the Wren’s nest
Cam keekin’ in, cam keekin’ in;
O weel’s me on your auld pow,
Wad ye be in, wad ye be in?
Thou’s ne’er get leave to lie without,
And I within, and I within,
Sae lang’s I hae an auld clout
To rowe ye in, to rowe ye in. - The writer of the above verse was who?
- Robert Burns
- Walter Scott
- James Hogg
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. - What bird is written about in the above quote?
- Blackbird
- Dove
- Skylark
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.” - The opening of a famous poem is shown above, who wrote it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Walt Whitman
Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow
I shot the ___ - These words conclude part one of a poem, what bird is the final word the above quote?
- Albatross
- Buzzard
- Cuckoo
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