local quiz

[bionic woman]

first lines of British poetry -letters are clues initials are poets.
TCTTKOPD - TG : HWBWEAT- AM ; TBATST - LG ; HDILT?LMCTW - EBB ; WDOFACS -AP ; BDLOBUS - WO ;
OTNN - SM ; WIADMD - CR ;TDIFDTT - ST.

[auntflo]

i'm terrible at poetry - but EBB is probably elizabeth barrett browning and WO could be wilfred owen

[auntflo]

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks - wilfred owen (dulce et decorum est)

[auntflo]

Had we but world enough, and time - Andrew Marvell (to his coy mistress)

[auntflo]

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day - thomas gray (elegy written in a country churchyard)

[auntflo]

on the ning nang nong - spike milligan (on the ning nang nong)

[kettledrum]

How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways ...

[auntflo]

WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs - alexander pope (the rape of the lock)

[auntflo]

When I am dead, my dearest - christina rosetti (when i am dead my dearest)

[bionic woman]

auntflo - how did you do it so swiftly? Sorry the rating only goes up to 3 stars. I am ashamed that I did not recognise them until You sent the answers. It has been 67 years since I left the High school at 17!

[auntflo]

it is all down to good old google!!! glad i could help - good luck with the quiz.

[kettledrum]

I would suggest Alexander Pope & Christina Rossetti as 2 of the remaining poets, but I don't have time or inclination at the moment to look up the appropriate poems. Over to someone else ....

[kettledrum]

Oh! I've been beaten to it! Failed to refresh!