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Soleils couchants ("Sunsets", or "Setting Suns") is a set of six poems, or a six-part poem, by Victor Hugo. The poems were written individually and grouped together later. [ 1 ] The first of the poems was written 1828, and grouped together in 1831 in the collection Les Feuilles d'automne .
The following is the list of 244 poems attributed to Philip Larkin. Untitled poems are identified by their first lines and marked with an ellipsis.Completion dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format, and are tagged "(best known date)" if the date is not definitive.
The great majority of them were included into his 1900s collections: Poems (1887–1891), Under the Open Skies (1898), Falling Leaves (1901), Flowers of the Field (1901), Poems (1903), Poems (1903–1906) and Poems of 1907 (1908). Some appeared in short stories' collections (Poems and stories, 1900, Flowers of the Field, 1901, etc.).
Salt-Water Poems and Ballads is a book of poetry on themes of seafaring and maritime history by British future Poet Laureate John Masefield. It was first published in 1916 by Macmillan, with illustrations by Charles Pears. The collection includes "Sea-Fever" and "Cargoes", two of Masefield's best known poems.
In 1904, when Alexander M. Robertson published a second edition of Sterling's book The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems, the poet made changes to the texts of "The Testimony of the Suns," creating a slightly different second version. In the book's 1907 third edition he made a few more changes.
"The Swimmer" is a poem by the Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. The poem is from his last volume of poems Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes published in 1870, when he was living at Melbourne . In The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon , [ 1 ] it is grouped among "Poems Swinburnian in Form and Pessimism, but full of the Personality of Gordon."
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free" is a sonnet by William Wordsworth written at Calais in August 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807, appearing as the nineteenth poem in a section entitled 'Miscellaneous sonnets'.
Johnson recognizes 1775 poems, and Franklin 1789; however each, in a handful of cases, categorizes as multiple poems lines which the other categorizes as a single poem. This mutual splitting results in a table of 1799 rows. Columns. First Line: Most of the first lines link to the poem's text (usually its first publication) at Wikisource.