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"To Sleep" is a poem by William Wordsworth.Here, the speaker is someone who suffers from insomnia.He lies sleepless all night, wanting to be able to sleep, but he cannot. He imagines a flock of sheep leisurely passing by, one after o
The Cure for Insomnia is a 1987 experimental film directed by John Henry Timmis IV, which was, according to Guinness World Records, the longest running film. [1] At 5,220 minutes long (87 hours, or 3 days and 15 hours) in length, the film has no plot, instead consisting of artist L. D. Groban reading his 4,080-page poem A Cure for Insomnia [2] over the course of three and a half days, spliced ...
The title page of Poems in Two Volumes. Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of ...
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 To the River Greta, near Keswick 1833 "Greta, what fearful listening! when huge stones" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 To the River Derwent 1833 "Among the mountains were we nursed, loved Stream!" Miscellaneous Sonnets. (1820–1832 ...
Meditatioun In Wyntir is a contemplative poem in Scots by William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460). [1] [2] In the work, Dunbar describes how Winter lowers his spirits. While beset by melancholy and insomnia, he meditates indecisively on thwarted ambition, ageing and mortality, causing him to become depressed. The approaching end of Winter restores ...
Sonnet 147 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
The Wedge is a 1944 book of poems by American modernist writer and poet William Carlos Williams. He assembled this collection in response to requests from American servicemen during World War II for a pocket-sized collection of his work to take into deployment with them.
Poems by William Sotheby, 1825. William Sotheby FRS (9 November 1757 – 30 December 1833) was an English poet and translator.He was born into a wealthy London family, the son of Col. William and Elizabeth (née Sloan) Sotheby, and was educated at Harrow School and the Military Academy, Angers, France before joining the army at 17, where he served for six years until his marriage in 1780, when ...