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  2. Sonnet 11 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 11 is part of the first block of 17 sonnets in the Fair Youth sequence (sonnets 1–126) and describes Shakespeare's call for the preservation of the Youth's beauty through procreation. Shakespeare urges the Fair Youth to copulate with a woman in marriage and conceive a boy so that the child may inherit and preserve the beauty of the ...

  3. The Children's Hour (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "The Children's Hour" was included in the Birds of Passage section at the end of the 1863 collection Tales of a Wayside Inn. [2] Longfellow's publisher James T. Fields was enthusiastic about the poem, noting that it would be adored by "the parental public". [3]

  4. Ode: Intimations of Immortality - Wikipedia

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    Ode: Intimations of Immortality is about childhood, but the poem doesn't completely focus on childhood or what was lost from childhood. Instead, the ode, like The Prelude and Tintern Abbey , places an emphasis on how an adult develops from a child and how being absorbed in nature inspires a deeper connection to humanity. [ 53 ]

  5. The School Boy - Wikipedia

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    First stanza: The school boy wakes and sees the sound of birds pleasant. It seemed to him as if the skylark is singing with him. All of these was such a sweet company to him. Second stanza: The school boys spent their days in utter despair under the thread of teacher's presence.

  6. Childhood (Tolstoy novel) - Wikipedia

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    Childhood (pre-reform Russian: Дѣтство; post-reform Russian: Детство, romanized: Détstvo) is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. [1] It is the first in a series of three novels, followed by Boyhood and ...

  7. Stanza - Wikipedia

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    The stanza has also been known by terms such as batch, fit, and stave. [2] The term stanza has a similar meaning to strophe, though strophe sometimes refers to an irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas. [3] Even though the term "stanza" is taken from Italian, in the Italian language the word "strofa" is more commonly used.

  8. Kinderszenen - Wikipedia

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    Kinderszenen [a] (German pronunciation: [ˈkɪndɐˌst͡seːnən], "Scenes from Childhood"), Op. 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. History and description

  9. The Wind in the Willows - Wikipedia

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    The illustrations are based on the early artistic style of Peter Darnes drawings from his childhood, using soft pastel pencils. The adaptation is an infusion of telling the story of The Wind in the Willows with the classic texts and characters, supported by newly produced music and soundscapes to give the audiobook a modern take. The audiobook ...