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The poem was published posthumously as "Hope" in 1891 "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" is a lyric poem in ballad meter by American poet Emily Dickinson. The poem's manuscript appears in Fascicle 13, which Dickinson compiled around 1861. [1] It is one of 19 poems in the collection, in addition to the poem "There's a certain Slant of light". [1]
Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's own life, or the world at large. [1] As a verb, Merriam-Webster defines hope as "to expect with confidence" or "to cherish a desire with anticipation". [2] Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness ...
Violet Nicolson (9 April 1865 – 4 October 1904), otherwise known as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory), was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers, a poem by American poet Emily Dickinson; Hope Is a Thing with Feathers, a 2003 album by Trailer Bride; Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, a 2000 non-fiction book about bird extinction by Christopher Cokinos; Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, 2017 choral work by American composer Lauren Bernofsky
"The Mayan Books" is a poem by Australian poet A. D. Hope. [1] It was first published in the poet's collection Orpheus in 1991, and later in other Australian poetry anthologies. Outline
The Wandering Islands (1955) is the first poetry collection by Australian poet A. D. Hope.It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1955. [1]The collection consists of 39 poems, most are published in this collection for the first time and others are reprinted from various Australian poetry publications.
Geoff Page writing in The Canberra Times noted that the collection "in general confirms long-held impressions of Hope: the dry detached amusement, the steady quatrains, 'the long isolation of the heart', the erudition (both scientific and literary), the old man still savouring sensual joys. A few poems set you back slightly.
The sense of dum spiro spero can be found in the work of Greek poet Theocritus (3rd Century BC), who wrote: "While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none." [2] That sentiment seems to have become common by the time of Roman statesman Cicero (106 – 43 BC), who wrote to Atticus: "As in the case of a sick man one says, 'While there is life there is hope' [dum anima est, spes ...