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Men in the Off Hours is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin (of Alcaeus, Alcman, Catullus, Hesiod, Sappho and others). [1] The book broke with Carson's established pattern of writing long poems. [2]
"Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Landseer dog , Boatswain, who had just died of rabies .
The poem first appeared as a work of 44 verses in Rizospastis on 12 May 1936, with a dedication to the workers of Thessaloniki. Soon after, a fuller version of 224 verses was published. A first edition of 10,000 copies sold out almost entirely, a record number for these years. [3]
Within this, is the "curious vergel" – this is how Medrano defines his work – various "such senses, sharp answers and very funny and recreational tales, with some curious epitaphs." These stories to which Julián Íñiguez de Medrano refers are called anecdotes, jokes, or chascarrillos (stories of few lines; some take up, exceptionally, a ...
Epitaph for James Smith" is a satirical Scots epitaph written by poet Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in his first publication, the Kilmarnock volume: LAMENT him, Mauchline husbands a’, He aften did assist ye; For had ye staid hale weeks awa, Your wives they ne’er had miss’d ye. Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye press,
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A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...
A Poet's Epitaph 1799 "Art thou a Statist in the van" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. 1800 Address to the Scholars of the Village School of -----1798 or 1799 "I come, ye little noisy Crew," Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years,; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. (1845-) 1841 Matthew: 1799