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Supernatural Religion: An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels, originally published anonymously. Tales of the Dead, translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, published anonymously. Tamerlane and Other Poems, the first published collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published anonymously. The Log ...
The "we" of the poem describes drinking the black milk of dawn at evening, noon, daybreak and night, and shovelling "a grave in the skies". They introduce a "he", who writes letters to Germany, plays with snakes, whistles orders to his dogs and to his Jews to dig a grave in the earth (the words "Rüden" (male dogs) and "Juden" (Jews) are assonant in German), [9] and commands "us" to play music ...
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The poem itself is a plea addressed directly to God, who is invoked in his Trinitarian form ("three-person'd God"). The speaker does not suffer from an internal problem here, unlike in a number of Donne's other Holy Sonnets (such as I am a little world made cunningly or O, to vex me ); he is sure of what he needs and how to reach his end goal.
On Oprah’s 70th birthday, January 29, 2024, former National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman wrote a moving poem in celebration. Read it here.
On 30 June 1882, the day of the execution of Guiteau for the assassination of President James Garfield, Guiteau announced, after famously dancing his way to the gallows, that he would read a poem that he had written. Guiteau said that he had written the poem, entitled "I Am Going to the Lordy", at about 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time that day ...
Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]
Ant love is to myn herte gon wiþ one spere so kene Nyht ant day my blod hit drynkes myn herte deþ me tene. Ich have loved al þis er þat y may love namore, Ich have siked moni syk lemmon for þin ore. Me nis love never þe ner ant þat me reweþ sore. Suete lemmon þench on me—ich have loved þe ore. Suete lemmon y preye þe of love one ...