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The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.
Geoffrey Gordon O'Brien (born May 10, 1969) [1] is an American poet.Educated at Harvard University and the University of Iowa, O'Brien has taught at Brooklyn College, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been the Distinguished Poet in Residence at St. Mary's College of California and the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he ...
"I have laid my papers on a bed for my daughters. I have left the door open for the police to enter. I am going to shoot myself." [275] — Donald E. Montgomery, American economist (11 October 1957), calling police before committing suicide "A quick haircut." [3] [note 50] — Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mobster (25 October 1957).
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Poem Year published Length Verse form Algerton, Frank C. Columbia: an Epic Poem on the Late Civil War between the Northern and Southern States of North America: 1893: heroic couplet Ammons, A. R. Sphere: The Form of a Motion: 1973: Ammons, A. R. Tape for the Turn of the Year: 1965: Ashbery, John: Flow Chart: 1991: Atherstone, Edwin: The Fall of ...
Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1798 Her eyes are Wild 1798 Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) 1798 Simon Lee 1798
A sestain is a six-line poem or repetitive unit of a poem of this format , comparable to quatrain (Ruba'i in Persian and Arabic) which is a four-line poem or a unit of a poem. There are many types of sestain with different rhyme schemes , for example AABBCC, ABABCC, AABCCB or AAABAB. [ 1 ]
Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Mathews in London in May 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land").