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However, his poetry is "full of thought and richness of diction", in the words of John William Cousin, who praised Beddoes's short pieces such as "If thou wilt ease thine heart" (from Death's Jest-Book, Act II) and "If there were dreams to sell" ("Dream-Pedlary") as "masterpieces of intense feeling exquisitely expressed". [6]
"Tom Gray's Dream", also known as "The Hell-Bound Train" [1] is a poem written by western Illinois poet Retta M. Brown (born September 18, 1893). Tom Gray was a farmer's son, born in Indiana on November 27, 1852, whose family moved to Mercer County, Illinois. During a drunken stupor, he experienced a frightening dream that moved him to cease ...
The Dream is a poem written by Lord Byron in 1816. It has been described as expressing "central Romantic beliefs about dreams". [ 1 ] It also describes the view from the Misk Hills , close to Byron's ancestral home in Newstead , Nottinghamshire . [ 2 ]
The dream of the beloved was a motif used in another of Dafydd's poems, "The Clock". [9] It was famously the basis of Le Roman de la Rose, but is older than that. Such a dream, together with an interpretation by an old crone, appears in Walther von der Vogelweide's Dô der sumer komen was, and as far back as Ovid's Amores. [10]
Gone From My Sight", also known as the "Parable of Immortality" and "What Is Dying" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. [1]
Poetry helps build resilience into your dream “I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...
The Dream" is a poem by the metaphysical poet John Donne. It was first printed in 1633, two years after Donne's death. It was first printed in 1633, two years after Donne's death. [ 1 ]
[5] Southam's argument for an ironically humanist poem is countered, in turn, by Charles A. Huttar, who attempts to bring the poem back into alignment with a certain Christian worldview: for example, Huttar claims that "these rebel powers" that "array" the soul in line 2 refer not to "the physical being" or body but rather to the lower powers ...