Poetry

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1 Robert Frost 55x

2 Emily Dickinson 44x

3 Walt Whitman 40x

4 Robert Burns 35x

5 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 32x

6 John Keats 30x

7 William Wordsworth 30x

8 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 29x

9 Carl Sandburg 25x

10 Percy Shelley 24x

11 Tennyson 22x

12 T.S. Eliot 22x

13 Allen Ginsberg 22x

14 Edgar Allan Poe 22x

15 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 22x

16 John Milton 21x

17 Lord Byron 20x

18 John Donne 20x

19 Dylan Thomas 17x

20 Dante 17x

21 William Shakespeare 17x

22 William Butler Yeats 17x

23 Sylvia Plath 15x

24 Robert Browning 14x

25 Edna St. Vincent Millay 14x

26 Ogden Nash 13x

27 Langston Hughes 12x

28 Evangeline 12x

29 Geoffrey Chaucer 12x

30 Paul Revere 11x

31 E.E. Cummings 10x

32 death 10x

33 Annabel Lee 10x

34 Alexander Pope 10x

35 Joyce Kilmer 9x

36 William Blake 9x

37 Edmund Spenser 9x

38 Sappho 8x

39 Ezra Pound 8x

40 Emma Lazarus 8x

41 "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 8x

42 "Casey at the Bat" 8x

43 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 8x

44 Rudyard Kipling 8x

45 Thomas Gray 8x

46 Virgil 7x

47 spring 7x

48 Oliver Wendell Holmes 7x

49 Hiawatha 7x

50 haiku 7x

Sample Clues

Despite his name, he holds "with those who favor fire" for how "the world will end"

Robert Frost

"I taste a liquor never brewed—/ From tankards scooped in Pearl—/ Not all the vats on the Rhine / Yield such an alcohol"

Emily Dickinson

Because he wrote the scandalous "Leaves of Grass", he was fired from his Interior Department clerkship in 1865

Walt Whitman

Some Scots celebrate his birthday by eating sheep parts & singing "Auld Lang Syne"

Robert Burns

Her 1844 poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" mentions Robert Browning, who soon began his own courtship

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Poetry 1,574

Robert Frost (57) Emily Dickinson (44) Walt Whitman (40) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (36) John Keats (32) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (30) William Wordsworth (30) Tennyson (26) Percy Shelley (24) Edgar Allan Poe (23)

Other 751

Robert Burns (18) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (14) Dylan Thomas (13) Alexander Pope (11) Dante (10) Ogden Nash (8) John Donne (8) Edna St. Vincent Millay (6) love (6) William Blake (6)

British Literature 59

Milton (10) Geoffrey Chaucer (6) Lewis Carroll (5) Rudyard Kipling (5) Gunga Din (3) Reading Gaol (2) Galileo (2) Mandalay (2) Samson (2) "The female of the species" (1)

Shakespeare 40

William Shakespeare (18) his sonnets (2) Ben Jonson (1) John Dryden (1) Antony and Cleopatra (1) iambic pentameter (1) Henry VIII (1) Cupid (1) Queen Mab (1) Remembrance of Things Past (1)

American Literature 24

Ralph Waldo Emerson (6) Maya Angelou (4) rise (2) a lover (1) an ode (1) for whom the bell tolls (1) Rudyard Kipling (1) a star (1) sinking of the Titanic (1) wine (1)

Children's Literature 13

sugar-plums (1) Clement Moore (1) Other little children (1) the sidewalk (1) Paul Revere (1) Dr. Seuss (1) Ezra Pound (1) The Canterbury Tales (1) "the patter of little feet" (1) "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" (1)