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"Play up! play up! and play the game!" [10] The very short "A Cricket Poem" by Harold Pinter encapsulates the mood and nostalgia common to lovers of cricket: I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time. [11] Andrew Lang's cricketing parody of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Brahma" is memorable: If the wild bowler thinks he bowls,
Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.(1815–43); Poems written in Youth(1845) 1798 The Reverie of Poor Susan 1797 Former title: Bore the title of "Poor Susan" from 1800–1805 "At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears," Poems of the Imagination: 1800 When Love was born of heavenly line 1795 "When Love was born of heavenly line,"
Her most famous poem is probably Atlas, which opens, "There is a kind of love called maintenance." In 1987 Fanthorpe went freelance, giving readings around the country and occasionally abroad. In 1994 she was nominated for the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry. [6] Her nine collections of poems were published by Peterloo Poets.
Wordsworth's voice slowly disappears from the poems as they progress, and his voice is entirely absent from the fifth poem. His love operates on the subconscious level, and he relates to Lucy more as a spirit of nature than as a human being. [41] The poet's grief is private, and he is unable to fully explain its source. [42]
One of his Poems Licence from the collection How do you Withstand is included in the anthology Confronting Love edited by Arundhati Subramanyam and Jerry Pinto. [11] He was also featured in the poetry anthology The Golden Treasure of Writers Workshop Poetry on a killing tree (2008) ed. by Rubana Huq and published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta. [12]
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise; I love thee with the passion put to use
Rapture follows the narrator through a love story. It begins with falling in love. “Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head, so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name, like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables, like a charm, like a spell.” [2] Later on, the tone of the book shifts from head over heels in love to brokenhearted.
The World's Wife is a collection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in the UK in 1999 by both Picador [1] and Anvil Press Poetry [2] and later published in the United States by Faber and Faber in 2000. [3] Duffy's poems in The World's Wife focus on either well known female figures or fictional counterparts to well known male ...