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Gunga Din" (/ ˌ ɡ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ d iː n /) is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din". [1]
David Hughes (born 1947) is a Welsh writer. He is the originator of the phrase "ambition is critical", which was made famous by its appearance in the 1997 film Twin Town [ 1 ] and has regularly been misattributed to fellow Swansea poet Dylan Thomas .
The moment I read those words, I know just how he felt. When I had to put my own dog to sleep, after a long bout with terminal cancer, I remember lying on my bed crying unable to think about ...
"Is My Team Ploughing" is a poem by A. E. Housman, published as number XXVII in his 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. It is a conversation between a dead man and his still living friend. Toward the end of the poem it is implied that the friend is now with the girl left behind when the narrator died.
"Man Was Made to Mourn" is an eleven stanza dirge by Robert Burns, first published in 1784. [4] [2] The poem was originally intended to be sung to the tune of the song "Peggy Bawn". It is written as if it were being delivered by a wiser old man to a "young stranger" standing in the winter on "the banks of Aire". [2] It includes the stanza:
He was particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern. Ray was the author of twenty-two volumes of poetry, including "Hemingway: A Desperate Life" (2011), "When" (2007), "Music of Time: Selected and New Poems" (2006) and The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars (2004 ...
Kirby has published more than 20 books, including multiple poetry collections, a handful of volumes of literary criticism, and biographies of Herman Melville and Little Richard. His poems and essays also frequently appear in journals such as The Southern Review. Kirby cites Keats, Little Richard, and Dante as foundational influences on his ...
Poems From Deal–E P Dutton, 1969; An Anthology of New York Poets (co-editor)–Random House, 1970; A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel–E P Dutton, 1971 (National Book Award Nominee) The Page Turner–Liveright, 1973; Lateness: A Book of Poems–Overlook/Viking, 1977; Introduction to John Ashbery's Poetry–Columbia University Press, 1979