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The poem is one of several that Whitman wrote on Lincoln's death. Although Whitman did not consider the poem to be among his best, it has been compared in both effect and quality to several acclaimed works of English literature, including elegies such as John Milton ' s Lycidas (1637) and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais (1821). [citation needed]
“I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together.” — A.R. Asher “I am who I am because of you.
The Triumph of Time" is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, [1] published in Poems and Ballads in 1866. [2] It is in adapted ottava rima and is full of elaborate use of literary devices, particularly alliteration. [3] The theme, which purports to be autobiographical, is that of rejected love.
These relationship quotes span early love, falling in love, long-distance relationships, happy marriages, and couples with a good sense of humor. ... ― Charles M. Schulz “I love being married ...
Charles Lloyd II (12 February 1775 – 16 January 1839) was an English poet who was a friend of Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and Thomas de Quincey. His best-known poem is "Desultory Thoughts in London".
Sonnet 116 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde's gross indecency trial and is usually interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality. [1]
In another love poem, 'In the Night Watches,' written in 1926, his command of free verse is natural and unstrained, unlike the laboured language and forced rhymes of his earlier love poetry. Its synthesis of lonely wilderness setting with feelings of separation and longing is harmonious and poignant."