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Messiah's Kingdom is a long poem by Agnes Bulmer. [1] It was published in 1833. It is regarded as the longest poem written by a woman. [2] [3] It consists of some 14,000 lines grouped in twelve books. The poem is written in heroic couplet [4] but the introduction is made up of four 13-line stanzas like this one:
Poem: Used in the first stanza 1889 - En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt: Carl David af Wirsén: Hymn: Mid to late 1800s "All Flesh is Grass" Christina Rossetti: Poem: 1921-1923: The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Jaroslav Hašek's: Novel: The volunteer Marek recites it to Švejk: 1931 "Difficulties of a Statesman" T. S ...
She had taken a scene from Browning's "Pippa passes," a poem which—if its author had only for once been able to wed melodious verse to the sweetest poetical thought; if he had only tried, just for once, to write lines which should not make the cheeks of those that read them to ache, the front teeth of those who declaim them to splinter and ...
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. [9] This introductory summons recalls Psalm 49:1, painting a picture of cosmic disaster in a way of an apocalypse. [8]
Christ I (also known as Christ A or (The) Advent Lyrics) is a fragmentary collection of Old English poems on the coming of the Lord, preserved in the Exeter Book.In its present state, the poem comprises 439 lines in twelve distinct sections.
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The poem is an ode, and its subject is the pursuit of the human soul by God's love - a theme also found in the devotional poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. Moody and Lovett point out that Thompson's use of free and varied line lengths and irregular rhythms reflect the panicked retreat of the soul, while the structured, often recurring refrain suggests the inexorable pursuit as it ...
Johnson recognizes 1775 poems, and Franklin 1789; however each, in a handful of cases, categorizes as multiple poems lines which the other categorizes as a single poem. This mutual splitting results in a table of 1799 rows. Columns. First Line: Most of the first lines link to the poem's text (usually its first publication) at Wikisource.