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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
Crambo is a rhyming game which, according to Joseph Strutt, [1] was played as early as the 14th century under the name of the ABC of Aristotle. [2] It is also known as capping the rhyme . The name may also be used to describe a doggerel poem which exhausts the possible rhymes with a particular word.
Of Ottery St. Mary, Devon. With Some Poems. Notus in fratres animi paterni. - Hor "A blesséd lot hath he, who having passed" 1797 1797 On the Christening of a Friend's Child "This day among the faithful plac'd" 1797 1797 Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church
This day of seventy-eight long ago! The champion of the centuries, he cometh up against thee, With his brethren, every one a famous foe! The long-whiskered Doctor, that laugheth the rules to scorn, While the bowler, pitched against him, bans the day he was born; And G.F. with his science makes the fairest length forlorn;
Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people
Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.
"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...