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The first stanza of the poem has contributed the titles of at least three books on cricket: G. D. Martineau's The field is full of shades [4] Eric Midwinter's history of Lancashire cricket Red roses crest the caps [5] R. H. Young's Field Full of Shades. A personal history of Claverham Cricket Club.
Written about the same time as the others, this poem was held over until it was incorporated in Last Poems (1922). [8] In the letter to Pollet already mentioned, Housman pointed out that there was a discontinuity between the Classical scholar who wrote the poems and the "imaginary" Shropshire Lad they portrayed.
Magpie, magpie, I go by thee!" and to spit on the ground three times. [8] On occasion, jackdaws, crows and other Corvidae are associated with the rhyme, particularly in America where magpies are less common. [9] In eastern India, the erstwhile British colonial bastion, the common myna is the bird of association. [10]
"Before I see another day," Poems founded on the Affections. 1798 The Last of the Flock 1798 "In distant countries have I been," Poems founded on the Affections. 1798 The Idiot Boy: 1798 "'Tis eight o'clock,--a clear March night," Poems founded on the Affections. 1798 Lines: 1798, 13 July
In this version of the metre as in the poems above, each line has two halves: the first half has four syllables (sometimes 5), while the second half has seven (sometimes 6); in the first half there are two stresses and in the second half three. In some places the final weak vowel -e is ignored, e.g. nostr(e) emperere.
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"If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism . [ 2 ] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son ...
There were twenty-seven poems by Hardy, compared with only nine by T. S. Eliot (however, Eliot is most famous for long poems); the other poets most extensively represented were W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden and Rudyard Kipling. Larkin included six of his own poems—the same number as for Rupert Brooke.