Poetry Lines on Jeopardy!

POETIC WOMEN 12/16/2013
$400: The Nancy in this Scot’s “A Fond Kiss” was Agnes McLehose
$800: Richard Lovelace’s poem “To Althea: From Prison” says, “stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars” one of these
$1600: This Robert Browning title girl “passes” the time on her day off from a silk mill
$2,000 (Daily Double): Longfellow called her the “handsomest of all the women in the land of the Dacotahs”
$2000: On April 6, 1348, 21 years to the day after Petrarch first saw her, she died in Avignon, possibly of the plague

NAME THE POET (1/25/2013)
$400: “‘Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, ‘tapping at my chamber door–only this, and nothing more'”
$800: “My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near”
$1600: “I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: his day is marching on”
$2,000 (Daily Double): “A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair”
$2000: “So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens”

COMPLETES THE POETRY LINE (3/1/2010)
$400: Gray: “The curfew tolls the knell of parting” this
$800: Masefield: “All I ask is a tall ship / And” this “to steer her by”
$1200: Blake: “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, in the” these “of the night”
$1600: Pope: “Hope springs eternal in” this; “Man never is, but always to be, blest”
$2000: Service: “…the queerest they ever did see / Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge / I cremated” him

ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY (6/1/2009)
$400: “How do I love thee?” L.M.C.T.W.
$800: “Take thy beak from out my heart, & take thy form from off my door!” Q.T.R., N.
$1200: “In the room the women come and go” T.O.M.
$1600: “By the shores of Gitche Gumee,” B.T.S.B-S-W
$2000: “I am the master of my fate;” I.A.T.C.O.M.S.