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  2. First they came ... - Wikipedia

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    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. A longer version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the British government, is as follows: [4] First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out

  3. Howl (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem was first performed at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955. [14] Ginsberg had not originally intended the poem for performance. The reading was conceived by Wally Hedrick—a painter and co-founder of the Six—who approached Ginsberg in mid-1955 and asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery.

  4. Night (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The second page of night from the same copy as the previous image. [4] Night is a poem that describes two contrasting places: Earth, where nature runs wild, and Heaven, where predation and violence are nonexistent. It is influenced by a passage from the Old Testament: Isaiah 11:6-8 "The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down ...

  5. Midnight poem - Wikipedia

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    Reiner and Kovacs have suggested that the common interpretation of the poem, that the Pleiades have set, is incorrect: they argue that the poem should be emended to read that the Pleiades are "in mid-heaven". [29] If this reading is correct, then the dramatic date of the poem would be some months earlier than that suggested by Mebius and ...

  6. A Dream Within a Dream - Wikipedia

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    The poem is recited in spoken-word form by vocalist Susanne Freytag. Biological Radio , the 1997 Dreadzone album, features the track "Dream Within A Dream" which quotes lines from the poem. The Yardbirds ' recorded a musical adaptation for their 2003 album Birdland , adding a new verse of their own.

  7. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    The speaker of the poem is the character Aedh, who appears in Yeats's work alongside two other archetypal characters of the poet's myth: Michael Robartes and Red Hanrahan. The three characters, according to Yeats, represent the "principles of the mind;" whereas Robartes is intellectually powerful and Hanrahan represents Romantic primitivism ...

  8. Sailing to Byzantium - Wikipedia

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    This is a reference to the legend that when the Turks entered the church (Hagia Sophia) in 1453, the priests who were singing the Divine Liturgy took up the sacred vessels and disappeared into the wall of the church, where they will stay and only come out when the church is returned to Christendom (see Timothy Gregory, A History of Byzantium ...

  9. Mythopoeia (poem) - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien wrote "Mythopoeia" following a discussion on the night of 19 September 1931 that took place at Magdalen College, Oxford with C. S. Lewis and Hugo Dyson. Lewis said that myths were "lies breathed through silver". Tolkien's poem explained and defended creative myth-making.