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Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

Breanna
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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.

 

  1. LYEMI NNIDCIOKS [SOLVED: EMILY DICKINSON]
  2. ETOBRR SFTOR [SOLVED: ROBERT FROST]
  3. EE NSCUMGIM [SOLVED: E E CUMMINGS]
  4. AGERD LANLE OEP [SOLVED: EDGAR ALLEN POE]
  5. HJNO TAKSE [SOLVED: JOHN KEATS]
  6. AISLYV TAHLP [SOLVED: SYLVIA PLATH]
  7. ONJH OLNITM [SOLVED: JOHN MILTON]
  8. YRENH IDDVA ARUTOHE [SOLVED: HENRY DAVID THOREAU]
  9. IMIAWLL HSEPAESKAER [SOLVED: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE]
  10. IWLILMA LRUETB ESYAT [SOLVED: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS]
  11. ROEGFEFY ACHCERU [SOLVED: GEOFFREY CHAUCER]
  12. LRAHP LDWOA RONMEES [SOLVED: RALPH WALDO EMERSON]
  13. AWTL HAMIWTN [SOLVED: WALT WHITMAN]
  14. CRSOA DLWIE [OSCAR WILDE]
  15. YAMA LUOGNEA [SOLVED: MAYA ANGELOU]
  16. NSALNOGT HEUHSG [SOLVED: LANGSTON HUGHES]
  17. ELHS RNELETSIISV [SOLVED: SHEL SILVERSTEIN]
  18. LOPAB RDANUE [SOLVED: PABLO NERUDA]
  19. FARLDE DROL NYOTSNNE [SOLVED: ALFRED LORD TENNYSON]
  20. NHREY WWRDTSAOH FELOWLGOLNM [SOLVED: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW]
  21. HNOJ NDOEN [SOLVED: JOHN DONNE]
  22. XAENEDRLA UHNKSPI [SOLVED: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN]
  23. AMHTOS RYDAH [SOLVED: THOMAS HARDY]
  24. EBHIEATLZ REBRATT NNWOBRIG [SOLVED: ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING]
  25. 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 

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@pgn wrote:

20 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW


The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

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23 THOMAS HARDY

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Girl in a jacket


Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

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@Cleoriff wrote:

12 RALPH WALDO EMERSON


“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

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@pgn wrote:

11. GEOFFREY CHAUCER


“Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.”

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15 MAYA ANGELOU

Veritas Numquam Perit

Girl in a jacket
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3 E E Cummings 

This is not O2 and we are all customers here similar to yourself and cannot answer account type queries.
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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

23 THOMAS HARDY


“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”

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16 LANGSTON HUGHES

Veritas Numquam Perit

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15 MAYA ANGELOU


Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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@Enlli wrote:

3 E E Cummings 


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
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