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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder—everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest ...
Johnson recognizes 1775 poems, and Franklin 1789; however each, in a handful of cases, categorizes as multiple poems lines which the other categorizes as a single poem. This mutual splitting results in a table of 1799 rows. Columns. First Line: Most of the first lines link to the poem's text (usually its first publication) at Wikisource.
Soleils couchants ("Sunsets", or "Setting Suns") is a set of six poems, or a six-part poem, by Victor Hugo. The poems were written individually and grouped together later. [ 1 ] The first of the poems was written 1828, and grouped together in 1831 in the collection Les Feuilles d'automne .
The Sag Harbor Corrector's lengthy review not only told how a reviewer felt about the poem but also described its structure: "It was reserved for Sterling to enshrine in poetry the cosmic process of nature and to send his mind forth to the farthest stars and get from them, if possible, some light as to the origin and destiny of the universe ...
" Two boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXI.) A Persian Lesson " For his o’erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXV. Good-bye my Fancy) A Prairie Sunset " Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV. Sands at Seventy)
A Treatise on Stars is a 2020 poetry collection by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, published by New Directions Publishing. [1] Her fourteenth book of poems, it was nominated for several awards and won the Bollingen Prize in 2021.
Collected Poems 1988: Ugly Sister: 1944 (best known date) The North Ship: Under a splendid chestnut tree... 1950-06 (best known date) Collected Poems 1988: Ultimatum: 1940-06 (best known date) Collected Poems 2003: Unfinished Poem: 1951 (best known date) Collected Poems 1988: Vers de Société: 1971-05-19: High Windows: The View: 1972-08 (best ...
Sabbath Morning at Sea" is a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning first published in 1839, which Sir Edward Elgar set to music in 1899 as the third song in his song-cycle Sea Pictures. [ 1 ] Poem