Lesser celandine in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, favourite flower of William Wordsworth
Dear Readers, it was a close-run thing this week, with Fran and Bobby Freelove getting a most creditable 42 out of 45. The winner this week though, with an amazing 45 out of 45, is Anne from Something Over Tea. Well done Anne!
The Answers
1) L Nightingale – from ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ by John Keats
2) G Wild Daffodils from I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
3) I Wood Anemones from Wood Anemonie by John Clare
4) K Skylark – from ‘To a Skylark’ by William Wordsworth
5) A – Dipper by Norman MacCaig
6) D) Primrose – From ‘The Primrose’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley
7) E – Brown Hares. From March Hares by Andrew Young
8) O Forget-me-nots from ‘A Bed of Forget-me-nots’ by Christina Rossetti
9) B – The Lamb by William Blake
10) M Northern Lapwings/Peewits – from ‘Two Pewits’ by Edward Thomas
11) J Cuckoo. This is from an old song, so so whatever you’ve written gets a mark from me!
12) H Linnet – from ‘I Heard a Linnet Courting’ by Robert Bridges
13) C) Sweet Violets – The Violet by Jane Taylor
14) N Dandelion from ‘Dandelions’ by Louis MacNiece
15) F Cherry Blossom. From The Loveliest of Trees (A Shropshire Lad) by A.E.Housman
Photo Credits
Photo One by cheloVechek / talk, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Two by Philip Halling / Wild daffodils in Hallwood
Photo Three by © Copyright Andrew Curtis and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Photo Four by Ómar Runólfsson, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Five by Andrew2606 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Six by By Phil Nash from Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 & GFDLViews, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Seven by Caroline Legg from https://www.flickr.com/photos/128941223@N02/49898514632
Photo Eight by Laura Nolte at https://www.flickr.com/photos/laura_nolte/5602766470
Photo Nine by PiggiusMax, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Ten by Artur Rydzewski at https://www.flickr.com/photos/119200904@N07/24395314677/
Photo Eleven by Mike McKenzie, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Twelve by Joe Pell, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Thirteen by gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K., CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Fourteen by Greg Hume, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo Fifteen by Takuya Matsuyama, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
This one was right up my alley – thank you for the fun.
Sorry Viv, I completely forgot about this one. Though I would not have known many of the poems or poets. Congrats to Anne and the Freeloves, They are amazing scores.