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The poem begins with an old grey-bearded sailor, the Mariner, stopping a guest at a wedding ceremony to tell him a story of a sailing voyage he took long ago. The Wedding-Guest is at first reluctant to listen, as the ceremony is about to begin, but the mariner's glittering eye captivates him.
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
Lines 1, 3, 5, and 7 end in single-syllable (so-called masculine) rhymes, and lines 2, 4, 6, and 8 with two-syllable ("feminine") rhymes. (In the English tradition, two-syllable rhymes are generally associated with light or comic verse, which may be part of the reason some critics have demeaned Neale's lyrics as "doggerel".)
Brontë's love of the sea is expressed in this poem. In it, the sea is portrayed as "The Great Liberator". [2]The line "the long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing" and the footnote she wrote at the bottom of the poem reveals that Brontë "loved wild weather, as she loved the sea, and hard country and snow". [3]
Work without Hope. "All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—" 1825, February 21 1828 Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend. Found Written on the Blank Leaf at the Beginning of Butler's. 'book of the Church' (1825) "I note the moods and feelings men betray," 1825 or 1826 1827, May 21 Song. ('Though veiled,' &c.)
The Complete Poems of Robert W. Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1933) Rhyme and Romance: a Robert Service anthology (London: E. Benn, 1949) Later Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954, 55, 65) Collected Poems of Robert Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954) More Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1955) Songs of the High North (London: E ...
Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.
Poems of the Fancy: 1820 The Pass of Kirkstone: 1817, 27 June "Within the mind strong fancies work," Poems of the Imagination: 1820 Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year 1817 "Smile of the Moon!---for I so name" Poems founded on the Affections: 1820 Sequel to the "Beggars," 1802. Composed many years after 1817