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"The Circus of the Sun" is a poem by American poet Robert Lax (1915–2000). First published in 1959 by Journeyman Press [1] [2] it consists of a cycle of 31 short poems that tell the story of a traveling circus. The poem is included in the collections: 33 Poems (1987), Love Had a Compass (1997), and Circus Days and Nights (2000).
She was seen as being poetically close to the Skamander circle, publishing in her short life of 33 years two collections of poetry, Zamknięty pokój ("A Closed Room"), in which the Closed Room of the title poem is self-avowedly a metaphor for the person of the poet herself, [11] and Imiona świata ("The Names the World is Known By"), whose ...
Thomas Miller (31 August 1807 – 24 October 1874) was an English poet and novelist who explored rural subjects. He was one of the most prolific English working-class writers of the 19th century and produced in all over 45 volumes, [1] including some "penny dreadfuls" on urban crime.
Anders Fjellner in traditional Sámi gákti in 1871. Photo by Lotten von Düben.. Throughout his life, as he moved around northern Sweden, Fjellner collected and preserved Sámi folktales, joik, and traditions, which became the root of much of his poetry, including the epics "Päiven Pārne'" (Sons of the Sun) and "Piššan Paššan Pardne" (Son of Pišša and Pašša) and two shorter poems ...
Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun. Begone about Thy business. Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. [1] Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays. [2] Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays. I only tell of sunny hours. I count only sunny hours.
The poem, with eight colored engraved illustrations, was published in New York by William B. Gilley in 1821 as a small paperback book entitled The Children's Friend: A New-Year's Present, to the Little Ones from Five to Twelve. [1] The names of the author and the illustrator are not known. [2]
The Sun Rising (also known as The Sunne Rising) is a thirty-line poem (a great example of an inverted aubade) [1] with three stanzas published in 1633 [2] by the English poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern.
In the ancient Roman calendar, December 25 was the date of the winter solstice. [19] [20] Marcus Terentius Varro wrote in the first century BC that this was regarded as the middle of winter. [21] In the same century, Ovid wrote in the Fasti that the winter solstice is the first day of the "new Sun". [22]