10 Quotes from poems

Presenting to you the best quotes from the ten poems I've read in the past one - two years. Hope you'll enjoy them..

1. And the banner above that said, “Special Olympics’

Could not have been nearer the mark. – Nine Gold Medals(By David Roth)

2. And showed the names whom love of God has blest,

And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. – Abou Ben Adhem(By Leigh Hunt)

3. Had I said, “Good folk, mere noise repels...

But give me you sun from yonder skies!”

They had answered, “And afterward, what else?” – The Patriot(By Robert Browning)

4. The caged bird sings,

With fearful trill. - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(By Maya Angelou)

5. (Last week in someone's place we saw,

a dozen of eyeballs on the floor.) - Television(By Roald Dahl)

6. But things like that, you know, must be

At every famous victory. - After Blenheim(By Robert Southey)

7. Some are flushed like the buds that dream,

On the tranquil bro of a woodland stream. - The Bangle Sellers(By Sarojini Naidu)

8. Their log held tight in death's still hands,

Was a proof of human sin. - THe Cold Within(By James Patrick Kinney)

9. In love of home and loyalty

and far-cast thought of civil good,

his blessings on the neighborhood. - The Heart of The Tree(By Henry Cuyler Bunner)

10. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way. - Daffodils(By William Wordsworth)