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Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
Latin for "unconquered", [6] the poem "Invictus" is a deeply descriptive and motivational work filled with vivid imagery. With four stanzas and sixteen lines, each containing eight syllables, the poem has a rather uncomplicated structure. [7]
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"Bond and Free" "Birches" "Pea Brush" "Putting in the Seed" "A Time to Talk" "The Cow in Apple Time" "An Encounter" "Range-Finding" "Cranberries at Noon" "The Hill Wife" "The Bonfire" "A Girl's Garden" "Locked Out" "The Last Word of a Blue Bird" "Out, Out-" "Brown's Descent, or the Willy-nilly Slide" "The Gum-Gatherer" "The Line-Gang" "The ...
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A Tingling Catch: A Century of New Zealand Cricket Poems 1864–2009, edited by Mark Pirie (Wellington, N.Z.: HeadworX Publishers). ISBN 978-0-473-16872-8. First anthology of New Zealand cricket poems. Cautionary Tales from the Pavilion: A Short Collection of Verse, by Giscard Drew (2014) Hows Its, by Nick Whittock (Inken Publish, 2014).
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The poems of In Hospital are noteworthy as some of the earliest free verse written in the UK. Arguably Henley's best-remembered work is the poem "Invictus", written in 1875. It is said that this was written as a demonstration of his resilience following the amputation of his foot due to tubercular infection.