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Footprints in the sand "Footprints," also known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular modern allegorical Christian poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one of which belonged to God and another to themselves. At some points the two pairs of footprints dwindle to one; it is explained that this is where God ...
William Cowper (/ ˈ k uː p ər / KOO-pər; 15 November 1731 [2] / 26 November 1731 – 14 April 1800 [2] / 25 April 1800 ()) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.
Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]
In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
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.
Vera Bell or Vera Alberta [1] or Albertha [2] Bell (born 1906; date of death unknown) was a Jamaican poet, short-story writer and playwright. [3] [4] Her 1948 poem "Ancestor on the Auction Block" has been anthologized several times [5] [6] although a 2005 review of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse says "some of the earlier poems survive only as amusing museum pieces, such as Vera Bell's ...
The poem is also used as the lyrics in the song "Still Alive" by D.E.Q. The first and last couplets are adapted and used as part of the lyrics in the song "Another Time" by Lyriel. The poem is recited in "Welcome to Kanagawa" by the character Karen McCluskey (Kathryn Joosten), a season four episode of Desperate Housewives.
The Course of Time is a ten-book poem in blank verse, first published in 1827. [2] It was the last published and most famous work of Scottish poet Robert Pollok . The first edition of the poem sold 12,000 copies, and by its fourth edition it had sold 78,000 copies and become well known even in North America .