Question

Match each passage with the title of the literary work from which it came.

"If what I do prove well, it won't advance, / They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance." "No ties so strong, no friends so dear and sweet, / But with death's parting blow is sure to meet. / The sentence past is most irrevocable, / A common thing, yet oh, inevitable." "My love is such that rivers cannot quench, / Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense." "Then, coming out, beheld a space / The flame consume my dwelling place. / And when I could no longer look, / I blest His name that gave and took"   "But he whose name is graved in the white stone / Shall last and shine when all of these are gone." "By nature trees do rot when they are grown, / And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall, / And corn and grass are in their season mown, / And time brings down what is both strong and tall." "If two be one, as surely thou and I, / How stayest thou there, whilst I at Ipswich lie?"

A. "Contemplations" B. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" C. "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" D. "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old" E. "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" F. "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment" G. "The Prologue," originally written for "Quaternions"

Answer 1

1. "If what I do prove well, it won't advance, / They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance." - "The Prologue," originally written for "Quaternions".

2. "No ties so strong, no friends so dear and sweet, / But with death's parting blow is sure to meet. / The sentence past is most irrevocable, / A common thing, yet oh, inevitable." - "Before the Birth of One of Her Children".

3. "My love is such that rivers cannot quench, / Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense." - "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

4. "Then, coming out, beheld a space / The flame consume my dwelling place. / And when I could no longer look, / I blest His name that gave and took" - "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666"

5. "But he whose name is graved in the white stone / Shall last and shine when all of these are gone." - " Contemplations "

6. "By nature trees do rot when they are grown, / And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall, / And corn and grass are in their season mown, / And time brings down what is both strong and tall. " - "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old"

7. "If two be one, as surely thou and I, / How stayest thou there, whilst I at Ipswich lie?" - "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment"