Can You Fill in the Missing Words in These Famous British Poems?

This is one of Alexander Pope's shortest poems, seen here in its entirety. It was engraved on the collar of a puppy given to his friend, the Prince of Wales.

This is from T. S. Eliot's poem, "The Wasteland".

This is from "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats.

This is from W. H. Auden's poem "Stop All the Clocks", written in honor of his dead lover.

This is from William Blake's poem, "Tyger", an ode to the beauty of tigers.

This is from "The Disappointment" by 17th century poet Aphra Behn.

This is from Jonathan Swift's very angry poem "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" about a woman who takes off her makeup, then her face, and so on.

This is from Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah's poem "The British", an ode to the melting pot of British culture.

This is from Scottish poet Rabbie Burns' poem, "Address to a Haggis". It's a very long poem about a meaty Scottish dish.

This is from Dylan Thomas' villanelle, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" about fighting against a premature or undeserved death.

This is from William Wordsworth's comedy poem "Goody Blake and Harry Gill" about a mean rich man who is cruel to an old widow and becomes cursed to never be warm again.

This is from Wendy Cope's poem "Engineers' Corner", about how there is no monument to engineers in Westminster Abbey, though there is one for poets.

This is from John Donne's creepy poem "The Apparition", about a man who blames a woman for rejecting him and thus resulting in his death, and threatens to stalk her from beyond the grave.

These are the opening lines of Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress"

This is from Roald Dahl's poem, "Dear Friends, We Surely All Agree", about the evils of chewing gum.

Slough is a town in England that frankly, isn't very nice. Poet John Betjeman wrote his poem "Slough" about it.

This is from "Napoleon III In Italy" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

This is from Mark Beaufoy's poem "A Father's Advice", written to his son to encourage gun safety.

This is from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If", which is about how to be a man.

This is the entirety of the poem "Mrs. Icarus" by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. It's part of her book "The World's Wife" in which women in the lives of famous men are given the voice to comment on their situation.

This is the opening line of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "Kubla Khan".

This is from Robert Frost's poem "Mending Walls" which is about how boundaries affect people's ability to get on with each other.

This is the opening line of Christina Rossetti's famous poem, "Remember", that is often read at British funerals.

This is the opening line of George Gordon, Lord Byron's utterly weird monodrama, "Maud".

This is from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous epic poem, "The Lady of Shalott".

This is from William Wordsworth's Romantic poem, "Daffodils".

This hails from probably the most famous sonnet of William Shakespeare, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

This comes from Alexander Pope's poem "Essay on Criticism", which is about how small time critics think they are more important than they are!

This comes from Geoffrey Chaucer's poem "Good Counsel".

This comes from John Milton's great poem "Paradise Lost", which he wrote to be the English language equivalent of epics like Homer's Odyssey.

This comes from the metaphysical poet John Donne, whose sonnet "Batter my heart" begins with these lines.

This is Wilfred Owens, the World War I poet, and hails from his powerful poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est", which means "it is sweet and proper".

This is from A. A. Milne and begins "In the corner of the bedroom is a great big curtain / Someone lives behind it but I don't know who!" Brownies are a little pixie-like creature that apparently live behind curtains.

John Keats' poem tells us that "La belle dame sans merci hath thee in thrall!"

In "Disobedience" by A. A. Milne, we learn that "James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree, took good care of his mother, though he was only three."