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Wednesday Word Scramble - Poets edition 📝

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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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17 SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Veritas Numquam Perit

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@Cleoriff wrote:

17 SHEL SILVERSTEIN


“Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.”

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@pgn wrote:

18. PABLO NERUDA

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“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”

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TMR

19 ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

Veritas Numquam Perit

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@Cleoriff wrote:

TMR

19 ALFRED LORD TENNYSON


Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
   Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
   Rode the six hundred.
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21 John Donne

No man is a island

This is not O2 and we are all customers here similar to yourself and cannot answer account type queries.
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@Breanna 

you haven't put solved next to LANGSTON HUGHES https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Off-Topic/Wednesday-Word-Scramble-Poets-edition/m-p/1622175/highlight/... 

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22 ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Veritas Numquam Perit

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Thanks for flagging #16 @Cleoriff -- I totally missed it!

 

And just like that, we're done already! I thoroughly enjoyed finding these little poetry snippets and I hope you enjoyed reading them. Thanks for joining in @pgn @Enlli @Mi-Amigo  & @Cleoriff!

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