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  2. The Eolian Harp - Wikipedia

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    The poem discusses love, sex, and marriage, but it is not done in the form of a love poem. Instead, it compares love with an Aeolian harp, which is a symbol of poetry. In terms of the relationship described, the desire expressed during an engagement with Fricker is described as innocent.

  3. Alysoun - Wikipedia

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    The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.

  4. Tears, Idle Tears - Wikipedia

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    The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;

  5. List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Wikipedia

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    A Day-dream. ('My eyes make pictures,' &c.) "My eyes make pictures, when they are shut:" 1802 1828 Answer to a Child's Question "Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove," 1802 1802, October 16 The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife "If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light!" 1801-02 1802, October 19 The Happy ...

  6. The Seagull (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem in BL Add. MS 14997, a manuscript dating from c. 1500. The academic critic Huw Meirion Edwards considered that "The Seagull"’s imagery goes far beyond anything that had come before it in Welsh poetry, [7] and Anthony Conran wrote that "pictorially it is superb…[it] has the visual completeness, brilliance and unity of a medieval illumination, a picture from a book of hours". [8]

  7. Category:Poems about birds - Wikipedia

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    Poems about birds, warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (/ ˈ eɪ v iː z /), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

  8. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.(1815–43); Poems written in Youth(1845) 1798 The Reverie of Poor Susan 1797 Former title: Bore the title of "Poor Susan" from 1800–1805 "At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears," Poems of the Imagination: 1800 When Love was born of heavenly line 1795 "When Love was born of heavenly line,"

  9. Bird - Wikipedia

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    Birds are also important figures in poetry; for example, Homer incorporated nightingales into his Odyssey, and Catullus used a sparrow as an erotic symbol in his Catullus 2. [320] The relationship between an albatross and a sailor is the central theme of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , which led to the use of the ...