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1816 first edition title page. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, near Windsor Great Park and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend Thomas Love Peacock.
t. e. The Therīgāthā, often translated as Verses of the Elder Nuns (Pāli: therī elder (feminine) + gāthā verses), is a Buddhist text, a collection of short poems of early enlightened women who were elder nuns (having experienced 10 Vassa or monsoon periods). The poems date from a three hundred year period, with some dated as early as the ...
Signature. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before ...
Mira. Jashoda (Birth name) Meera, better known as Mirabai, [2] and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. [3][4][5] She is mentioned in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely known and a cherished figure in ...
Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" poem remains an anthem for the oppressed's struggle against the powerful, especially Black women. Themes of dignity and strength are inspiring.
Musician Neil Young has a song "Beautiful Bluebird" about a lost love on his 2007 album Chrome Dreams II. "Blue Bird" is a song by Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions from their 2009 album Through the Devil Softly. A blue bird like device can be found in "The Bluebird of Zappiness" a 2010 episode of Cyberchase.
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. [ 1 ] She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.
Frances Jane van Alstyne (née Crosby; March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915), more commonly known as Fanny J. Crosby, was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. She was a prolific hymnist, writing more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, [a] with more than 100 million copies printed. [1] She is also known for her teaching and ...