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Alaska's Flag. The front cover of the October 1936. issue of Alaska School Bulletin, highlighting Marie Drake's poem. State anthem of Alaska. Also known as. Beyond Your Dreams Within Your Reach. Lyrics.
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven at Wikisource. " Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven ", also known as " He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven " in later publications, is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was published in 1899 in his third volume of poetry, The Wind Among the Reeds.
A Dream Within a Dream. For the vivid dream experience about awakening from sleep, see False awakening. A Dream Within a Dream. by Edgar Allan Poe. First published appearance in The Flag of Our Union. First published in. The Flag of Our Union. Publication date. March 1849.
The New Colossus at Wikisource. " The New Colossus " is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). [2] In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
The poem is a narrative made up of four six-line stanzas, known as sestets. Poe uses the term shadow in the middle of each stanza. The meaning of the word, however, changes with each use. First, it is a literal shadow, where the sun is blocked out. In the second, it implies gloom or despair.
Dover Beach. " Dover Beach " is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. [1] It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems; however, surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849. The most likely date is 1851.
In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, [1] now officially titled "Desiderata." [2] Psychiatrist Merrill Moore distributed more than 1,000 unattributed copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II. [1] After Ehrmann died in 1945, his widow published the work in 1948 in The Poems of Max Ehrmann. The 1948 ...
The poem is settled in the rose, to the point that the poem’s tone is one of sweet, suffering melancholy, a tone that is reaching for the sublime. In the 1890s, says Stephen Coote, Yeats was concerned for the "spiritual regeneration of his people": he felt that a spiritual posture of awe, a posture taken before those things that were ...