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Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 18:05:45 GMT

May 31st is Walt Whitman's birthday so I thought we might have a poet-themed scramble today. I'm not sure if he rates on this side of the world, but I bet some of you will definitely remember the iconic Oh Captain, My Captain from the Dead Poet's Society.

These are poets themselves, rather than titles of poems.

LYEMI NNIDCIOKS [SOLVED: EMILY DICKINSON]
ETOBRR SFTOR [SOLVED: ROBERT FROST]
EE NSCUMGIM [SOLVED: E E CUMMINGS]
AGERD LANLE OEP [SOLVED: EDGAR ALLEN POE]
HJNO TAKSE [SOLVED: JOHN KEATS]
AISLYV TAHLP [SOLVED: SYLVIA PLATH]
ONJH OLNITM [SOLVED: JOHN MILTON]
YRENH IDDVA ARUTOHE [SOLVED: HENRY DAVID THOREAU]
IMIAWLL HSEPAESKAER [SOLVED: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE]
IWLILMA LRUETB ESYAT [SOLVED: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS]
ROEGFEFY ACHCERU [SOLVED: GEOFFREY CHAUCER]
LRAHP LDWOA RONMEES [SOLVED: RALPH WALDO EMERSON]
AWTL HAMIWTN [SOLVED: WALT WHITMAN]
CRSOA DLWIE [OSCAR WILDE]
YAMA LUOGNEA [SOLVED: MAYA ANGELOU]
NSALNOGT HEUHSG [SOLVED: LANGSTON HUGHES]
ELHS RNELETSIISV [SOLVED: SHEL SILVERSTEIN]
LOPAB RDANUE [SOLVED: PABLO NERUDA]
FARLDE DROL NYOTSNNE [SOLVED: ALFRED LORD TENNYSON]
NHREY WWRDTSAOH FELOWLGOLNM [SOLVED: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW]
HNOJ NDOEN [SOLVED: JOHN DONNE]
XAENEDRLA UHNKSPI [SOLVED: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN]
AMHTOS RYDAH [SOLVED: THOMAS HARDY]
EBHIEATLZ REBRATT NNWOBRIG [SOLVED: ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING]
MWIALLI WRDWOOTSHR [SOLVED: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH]

As always, please only one guess per reply, so that everyone has a chance to participate, and also please wait until someone else has guessed after you before you guess again.

Hope to see our regular quizzers and any others I might have forgotten or who want to join the fun! No advance warning on this one so if you don't make it, no sweat!

@Mi-Amigo @pgn @Cleoriff @gmarkj @MI5 @jonsie @Comben @TallTrees @Patricia1066 @J9el @Spenny

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

pgn — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:08:30 GMT

13. WALT WHITMAN 🎂

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:52:48 GMT

@pgn wrote:

13. WALT WHITMAN 🎂

Thanks for joining @pgn -- Walt Whitman, who famously decided a diet of milk punch would cure what ailed him (it didn't).

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Enlli — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:26:57 GMT

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:27:58 GMT

👋 @Enlli 24 is indeed ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 31 May 2023 15:13:38 GMT

1 EMILY DICKINSON

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:53:01 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:

1 EMILY DICKINSON

Because I could not stop for Death

He kindly stopped for me

The Carriage held but just Ourselves

and Immortality

--Emily Dickinson, the first goth girl in spirit 🤣

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Enlli — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:14:46 GMT

25 William Wordsworth

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:18:02 GMT

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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Mi-Amigo — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:24:29 GMT

tmr

2 ROBERT FROST

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Enlli — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:31:11 GMT

And at no 9 the scourge of schoolkids

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:57:47 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:

tmr

2 ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:57:57 GMT

@Enlli wrote:

And at no 9 the scourge of schoolkids

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Could not agree more @Enlli 🤣

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Cleoriff — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:40:09 GMT

4 EDGAR ALLEN POE

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Enlli — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:44:24 GMT

14. I'm Earnest when I say Oscar Wilde

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Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:58:05 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:

4 EDGAR ALLEN POE

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.”

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:58:14 GMT

@Enlli wrote:

14. I'm Earnest when I say Oscar Wilde

Nice one @Enlli and an apt quote 😅

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Cleoriff — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:06:59 GMT

5 JOHN KEATS

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Breanna — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:58:24 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:

5 JOHN KEATS

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

Re: Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 31 May 2023 17:14:38 GMT

10 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS