TNPSC General English - Literature Important lines from Poems
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 20
".............Love is not love
Which alters when in alteration finds
or bends with the remover to remover"
These lines taken from the poem
- (a)
The solitary Reaper
- (b)
Sonnet N0 : 116
- (c)
Going for water
- (d)
A psalm of Life
"Reaping and singing by herself;
stop here, or gently pass!"
These lines taken from the poem
- (a)
Going for water
- (b)
Be the best
- (c)
Where th mind is without fear
- (d)
The solitary reaper
"Now drops that floated on the pool like pears, and now a silver blade" These lines taken from the poem.
- (a)
A psalm of Life
- (b)
Sonnet N0 : 116
- (c)
Going for water
- (d)
Be the best
"Tell me not, in mornful numbers, life is but an empty dream!"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
A psalm of Life
- (b)
The solitary reaper
- (c)
Be the best
- (d)
Sonnet N0 : 116
"Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
A psalm of Life
- (b)
Be the best
- (c)
Where the mind is without fear
- (d)
The solitary Reaper
"No nigtingale did ever chant More welcomes notes to weary bands"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
Be the best
- (b)
A psalm of Life
- (c)
The solitary Reaper
- (d)
Sonnet No : 116
"What'er the theme,the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending;"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
The Solitary Reaper
- (b)
Where the mind is without fear
- (c)
Sonnet No: 116
- (d)
Going for water
"O,no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
The Solitary Reaper
- (b)
Where the mind is without fear
- (c)
Sonnet No: 116
- (d)
Going for water
"If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ,nor no man ever lov'd"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
Going for water
- (b)
Be the best
- (c)
The Solitary Reaper
- (d)
Sonnet No: 116
"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks But bears it out even to the edge of doom"
These lines are taken from the poem.
- (a)
Where the mind is without fear
- (b)
The Solitary Reaper
- (c)
Sonnet No: 116
- (d)
Be the best
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments."
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
Sonnet No: 116
- (b)
The Solitary Reaper
- (c)
A psalm of Life
- (d)
Going for water
"Will no one tell me what she sings?
perhaps the plantive members flow
for old,unhappy, for-off things
And battles long ago:"
These lines are taken from the poem.
- (a)
Sonnet No: 116
- (b)
The Solitary Reaper
- (c)
Going for water
- (d)
A psalm of Life
"A voice so thrilling ne'er was heared
In spring-time form the cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the Farthest Hebrides"
These lines are taken from the poem.
- (a)
The Solitary Reaper
- (b)
Where the mind is without fear
- (c)
Be the best
- (d)
A psalm of Life
"The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
Where the mind is without fear
- (b)
The Solitary Reaper
- (c)
Going for water
- (d)
Be the best
"If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrup in the valley-but be
The best little srub by the side of the rill;"
These lines are taken from the poem.
- (a)
Where the mind is without fear
- (b)
The Solitary Reaper
- (c)
Going for water
- (d)
Be the best
"If you can't be a highway,then just be a trail
If you can't be the sun, be a star;"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
Where the mind is without fear
- (b)
A pslam of Life
- (c)
Be the Best
- (d)
Sonnet No:116
"Be a bush,if you can't be a tree
If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass"
These lines are taken from the poem.
- (a)
Going for water
- (b)
A psalm of Life
- (c)
Sonnet No : 116
- (d)
Be the best
"Where the mind is led forward by thee
into ever-widening thoght and action"
These lines are taken from the poem
- (a)
Where the mind is without fear
- (b)
A pslam of Life
- (c)
Going for water
- (d)
The Solitary Reaper
"We ran as if to meet the moon
That slowly dawned behind the trees,"
These lines are taken from the poem,
- (a)
A psalm of Life
- (b)
Sonnet No : 116
- (c)
Going for water
- (d)
The Solitary Reaper
"But once within the wood, We paused
Like gnomes that hid us from the moon"
These lines are taken from the poem.
- (a)
Going for water
- (b)
Sonnet No : 116
- (c)
A psalm of Life
- (d)
Be the best