E: 06/10 - win a signed anthology of the nation's favourite poems

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AboutMyArea, in partnership with Michael O'Mara Books, is giving you the opportunity to win a signed copy of Ana Sampson's "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud..."
We have three copies to give away, and all you have to do is tell us the title and author of the poems from which the following snippets are taken.



Can you name the poems and poets? (PLEASE THANK THE OPS BELOW FOR THE ANSWERS!!)

1. ‘O my love's like a red, red rose;' Robert Burns - A Red, Red Rose
2. ‘Stop all the clocks;' - W H Auden - Stop all the clocks/Funeral blues
3. ‘If you can keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;' - Rudyard Kipling - If
4. ‘But at my back I always hear/Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;' To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell
5. ‘the darling buds of May;' - Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 Shall I compare Thee to a Summers' day
   
6. ‘no country for old men;' - Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats
7. ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways;' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnet 43
8. ‘The Owl and the !!!!!-Cat went to sea;' - Edward Lear: the owl and the p u s s ycat
9. ‘If I should die, think only this of me;' - Rupert Brooke - The Soldier
10. ‘When I am an old woman I shall wear purple.' - Jenny Joseph - When i am an old woman i shall wear purple

How To Enter

• Entry is free, but you'll need to be registered with your local AboutMyArea website. If you have not registered previously, please click on the red button below this article that reads "Sign up to the free xxxx(your postcode) newsletter."
• Then, send your answers (poet and poem for each of the 10 snippets above), your name, address and telephone number to [EMAIL="carriespacey@aboutmyarea.co.uk"]carriespacey@aboutmyarea.co.uk[/EMAIL]

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No 10 - Jenny Joseph - When i am an old woman i shall wear purple

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No 2 - W H Auden - Stop all the clocks/Funeral blues

mustafa_say_ving

No 1 Robert Burns - A Red, Red Rose

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No 3 - Rudyard Kipling - If

nursey71

No 9: ‘If I should die, think only this of me;'

Rupert Brooke - The Soldier

Rock_Chick_Bird

thanks peeps - I will keep updating the original post with the answers as they come. :beer:

mustafa_say_ving

No 5 Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 Shall I compare Thee to a Summers' day

EDIT ....sorry slip of finger that should be NO 5

nursey71

No 8: Edward Lear: the owl and the p u s s ycat

nursey71

No 6: WB Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium

mustafa_say_ving

No 6 Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats