Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The sleepless night by a screaming baby draws on and on, as the girl, eyes half-open, recalls the horrors of her past: her father dying of a hernia and her mother begging for food by the road. The sleepless night having ended, there comes the day full of dirty little jobs and ceaseless errands. After that, another night by the screaming baby.
In a rave review for The New York Times, Joan Didion called Sleepless Nights an "extraordinary and haunting book". [4] Writing for The New York Times in 2018, Lauren Groff referred to the book as "brilliant, brittle and strange". [5] In 1979, Sleepless Nights was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. [6]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
He sadly, helplessly thinks that he shall soon hear small birds' cries from his orchard trees. He has not been able to win sleep by any means, and he is quite exhausted. Without sleep, all of days wealth seems useless. Night is the blessed barrier between day and day, as it brings with it sleep: the mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health.
"Sleep and Poetry" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats.It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. [citation needed] It is often cited [by whom?] as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic, [clarification needed] such as: "First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora ...
The second page of night from the same copy as the previous image. [4] Night is a poem that describes two contrasting places: Earth, where nature runs wild, and Heaven, where predation and violence are nonexistent. It is influenced by a passage from the Old Testament: Isaiah 11:6-8 "The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down ...
analysis of educational needs and in the implementation of projects at the local, provincial, national, and regional levels. Our vision is to strive toward the elimination of regional disparities in children’s access to quality education through policy reforms and the transformation of teacher evaluation systems in the Americas.
A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...