Match the Poems with the Poets – English Literature for TNPSC

In TNPSC Group II and Group IV exams, matching the poems with poet names usually accounts for atleast two questions. Most of the times, question will be in the form of Match the following (with 4 poems and author names) type rather than just asking who is the author of one Poem XYZ?

Women’s rights	Annie Lousia Walker
To a Millionaire	Archibald Lampman
You can’t be that, No, You can’t be that	Brian Patten
The Piano	D.H.Lawrence
Snake	D.H.Lawrence
Nine Gold Medals	David Roth
Inclusion	Dipti Bhatia
Be the Best	Douglas Malloch
The cry of the children	Elizabeth Barett Browning
To cook and Eat	Emma Richards
A sonnet for my Incomparable Mother	F Joanna
Migrant Bird	Famida Y Basheer
Discovery	Gayatri Pahlajani
Granny, Granny, please comb My Hair	Grace Nichols
A psalm of Life	H.W.Longfellow
To India – My Native Land	Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Keep Your Spirits High	Hope Spencer
Be Glad your Nose is on your face	Jack Prelutsky
No men are foreign	James Kirkup
Laugh and be Merry	John Masefield
Biking	Judith Nicholls
Punishment in Kindergarten	Kamala Das
My Grandmother’s House	Kamala Das
Earth	Khalil Gibran
A tiger in the Zoo	Leslie Norris
Is Life But a Dream	Lewis Caroll
Off to outer space tomorrow morning	Norman Nicholson
Where the Mind is Without fear	Rabindranath Tagore
The Apology	Ralph Wlado Emerson
Bat	Randall Jarell
Going for water	Robert Frost
Manliness	Rudyard Kipling
Our Local Team	Ruskin Bond
The Flying Wonder	Stephen Vincent Benet
The Man He Killed	Thomas Hardy
English words	V K Gokak
With a Friend	Vivian Gould
The Nation united	Walt Whitman
O captain My Captain	Walt Whitman
Sonnet No 116	William Shakespeare
The Solitary Reaper	William Wordsworth