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The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus "when I am stronger" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would ...
[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: Many and sharp the num'rous ills Inwoven with our frame! More pointed still we make ourselves
Hillyer was born in East Orange, New Jersey to an old Connecticut family. [2] [3] He attended Kent School in Kent, Connecticut.After high school, he attended Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1917. [1]
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...
What makes the note all the more significant is that it's Princess Catherine's first public message in nearly two weeks (11 days, to be exact), following her visit to The Royal Marsden Hospital in ...
Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
Robert lost his mother as a 7-year-old in what many believe was a suicide, according to the New York Times. He claims he saw her jump off the roof of their Westchester County home, though brother ...