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"School Prayer" is a poem written by American poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman; [1] it is the first of 50 poems in Ackerman's book I Praise My Destroyer, [2] which was published in 1998. "School Prayer" is a pledge to protect and revere nature, in every form it may appear.
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [1] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poem lapsed into public domain in 2019. [2]
More: Poetry from Daily Life: Making the world a better place, one stitch (or rhyme) at a time My poetic forever friend Irene Latham and I now have books that range from pre-K to senior year in ...
The red Prada headband she donned at the inauguration of President Joe Biden sold out within seconds of its debut. Honored as the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, the 22-year-old ...
Braley was a prolific author of poems, prose, plays, and humorous non-fiction articles Sonnets of a Freshman (1904). Illustrated by C. R. Freeman. Madison, WI: Wisconsin State Journal. The Oracle on Smoke: being a few utterances in a simple and not at all delphic style, with certain so-called poems there among scattered (1905). Madison, WI: The ...
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
"To This Day" is a 2011 spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan. [1] [2] In the poem, Koyczan talks about bullying he and others received during their lives and its deep, long-term impact. [3] Koyczan first came to international notice when he read his poetry at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics' Opening Ceremony. [4]