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"Human beings are parts of one body, In creation they are indeed of one nature. If a body part is afflicted with pain, Other body parts uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you shall not retain." Another poetic version by Dick Davis: Man’s sons are parts of one reality Since all have sprung from one ...
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
His consciousness floats out of his body, away from Earth, beyond our galaxy. Before the man is brought back to life, he sees our entire universe as a speck in an immense hand. [6] Sterling was an avid reader of Edgar Allan Poe's writings, so Poe's last book Eureka: A Prose Poem may have influenced "The Testimony of the Suns."
I Sing the Body Electric" is a poem by Walt Whitman from his 1855 collection Leaves of Grass. The poem is divided into nine sections, each celebrating a different aspect of human physicality. Its original publication, like the other poems in Leaves of Grass, did not have a title. In fact, the line "I sing the body electric" was not added until ...
"Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses , in the section titled "Life and Death (Echoes)".
The intention of the poem is to indicate the passage of time and yet the timelessness of nature. A human lifetime passes, yet the underlying natural life - symbolised by the unchanging backdrop of the magpies' call - remains unchanging. The phrase imitating the call of the Australian magpie is one of the most well-known lines in New Zealand ...
" 'On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life," The Excursion: 1814 Book First: The Wanderer 1795–1814 "'Twas summer, and the sun had mounted high:" The Excursion: 1814 Book Second: The Solitary 1795–1814 "In days of yore how fortunately fared" The Excursion: 1814 Book Third: Despondency 1795–1814 "A Humming Bee—a little tinkling rill—" The ...
Lucretius: On the nature of Things. De Rerum Natura. A Modern Verse Translation: Leonard & Smith: Verse. 1976: Sisson, C. H. The Poem on Nature ISBN 978-1857547238: 6-beat lines. 1977: Copley, Frank O. The Nature of Things (Norton rpt. (2011) ISBN 978-0393341362) Bailey (1962) Loose blank verse. 1995: Esolen, Anthony: On the Nature of Things ...