| SORDELLO | Narrative poem by Robert Browning (8) |
| PIEDPIPER | The ___ ___ of Hamelin, narrative poem by Robert Browning about a character hired to remove rats from a town (4,5) |
| TAMOSHANTER | 1791 narrative poem by Robert Burns (3,8) |
| DUCHESS | My Last ___, 1842 poem by Robert Browning (7) |
| LIPPI | Fra Lippo ___, poem by Robert Browning (5) |
| HAMELIN | 'The Pied Piper of ---', poem by Robert Browning (7) |
| PIED | The _ Piper of Hamelin, subject of a poem by Robert Browning (4) |
| ABROAD | Home-Thoughts, From ____, poem by Robert Browning written in 1845 (6) |
| RUINS | 1855 poem by Robert Browning whose concluding line is "Love is best" (5) |
| LOVEAMONGTHE | 1855 poem by Robert Browning whose concluding line is "Love is best" (4,5,3) |
| ROLAND | Would-be knight who, in a poem by Robert Browning, 'To the Dark Tower came' (6) |
| HIAWATHA | Hero of an 1855 narrative poem by Longfellow (8) |
| HUDIBRAS | Narrative poem by Samuel Butler (8) |
| TOAMOUSE | 1785 poem by Robert Burns beginning 'Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie' (2,1,5) |
| INCHCAPE | Another name for the Bell Rock, a notorious reef off the east coast of Angus, subject of a famous poem by Robert Southey |
| THOUGHTS | Home ___, from Abroad, Robert Browning poem (8) |
| MINSTREL | The -, 1805 narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott (3,2,3,4,8) |
| THEWRECK | Narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in Bel ads and Other Poems in 1842 (3,5,2,3,8) |
| HESPERUS | Narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Lon fellow. first published in Bel ads and Other Poems in 1842 (3,5,2,3,8) |
| THERAVEN | 1845 narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe (3,5) |
