No Fair Googling to Find the Answer
Who wrote the following about whom, and when did he write it?
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;Bonus points if you get the name of the poem correct AND the collection of poems in which it was published.
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
And don't cheat by using some other search engine besides Google.
3 Comments:
Darn, and I quoted these lines in an essay that won a "Sons of the American Revolution" scholarship contest a few years ago...
I am thinking, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Longfellow?
Now here is one for you jay, name the poet and poem...
"...their flag to April's breeze unfurled, here once embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world..."
My English teacher mom made sure I was familar with these poems, but sadly very few Americans are these days.
"Concord Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
And I didn't look it up, either.
I had to memorize that poem for 6th grade social studies.
It's from Tales from a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- though the poem's popularly called "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere", I believe its proper title is "The Innkeeper's Tale."
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