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Waxing Poetic Crossword Puzzle

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Here are some clues regarding poems and poetry.
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      1. Oskar Hansen: "All the games we play, I was busy..." "The ____"
      4. Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The sense of the world is short,..."; "____"
      8. Australian Shirley Hawkins: "Toodle-___"
      9. Short poem by Tavi Caesar, beginning "As the sun will set..."
      10. Macaulay: "Horatius ___ the Bridge"
      11. Maree Dawes: "Carpet needles..."; "____: a Series"
      12. "The ____" by William Cowper begins "In painted plumes, superbly dress'd..."
      14. Shel Silverstein: "A Boy Named ____"
      15. Type of Japanese poem
      17. Baudelaire: "L'homme et la ____"
      19. Hometown of poets Ustad Daman (1911-1984) and Sheila Gujral (1924-2011)
      21. McGonagall: "Oh! beautiful ____ with your lovely bay..."
      24. Roger Naya: "Who are we without a name?" "____"
      25. Kipling: "The ____ within my gate..." (also title of poem)
      26. Scottish poet ____ Robertson (1909-1973)(initials)
      27. Czeslaw Milosz: "I looked at that face, dumbfounded..." "____"
      28. Frost: "Nothing Gold Can ____"

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      1. Coleridge: "Thy smiles I note, sweet early Flower..." (2,1,8)
      2. Osip Mandelstam: "____ and Theta"
      3. Line rhyming with first in abba scheme
      4. Claude McKay: "You see me smile: but what is it?"; "To ___" (init.)
      5. Seamus Heaney: "Funeral ____"
      6. Japanese filmmaker, "Poet of the Everyday": Yasujiro ____
      7. Usual English translation of poet Horace's "Carpe Diem" (5,3,3)
      13. Robert Frost: "Even the bravest that are slain..." begins "The ____ by Existence"
      16. Members of family whose house fell in Poe story that included poem "The Haunted Palace"
      18. Blake, from "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell": "Rintrah ____ and shakes his fires..."
      20. American poet ____ Dove
      22. Korean boy band, inspiration for fan poems? (init.)
      23. Humourous Scots poem by Gregor Steele: "Mrs ____ Offence"