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The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, better known simply as Night-Thoughts, is a long poem by Edward Young published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745. It was illustrated with notable engravings by William Blake .
The Zig Zag Walk: Poems 1963-1968, (1973) Poem In Progress, (1975) The Bridge of Change: Poems 1974-1980, (1979) Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream: Selected Poems, (1981) The Transformation: Poems January to March 1981, (1983) John Logan: The Collected Poems, BOA Editions, Ltd., 1989, ISBN 978-0-918526-65-6
It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel ...
that a worm swallowed the poem of a some person, a thief in darkness, a glorious statement and its strong foundation. The thieving stranger was not a whit more wise that he swallowed those words. A moth ate words. I thought that was a marvelous fate, that the worm, a thief in the dark, should eat
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated contains nine poems written by diverse authors and illustrated by Thurber (the dates given are those of The New Yorker issue): Excelsior, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, March 11, 1939; The Sands o' Dee, written by Charles Kingsley; Lochinvar, written by Sir Walter Scott, April 8, 1939
Having first referred to a child's coming of age, the poem describes a number of (particularly fatal) misfortunes which may then befall one: a youth's premature death, famine, warfare and infirmity, the deprivations of a traveller, death at the gallows or on the pyre and self-destructive behaviour through intemperate drinking.
Time and Chance: an Autobiography: L. Sprague de Camp: Bible: Ecclesiastes 9:11: Time and Chance: Sharon Kay Penman: Bible: Ecclesiastes 9:11: Time and Chance: Alma Timms: Bible: Ecclesiastes 9:11: A Time of Gifts: Patrick Leigh Fermor: Louis MacNeice, "Twelfth Night" Time of our Darkness: Stephen Gray: Lawrence Binyon, "For the Fallen" A Time ...
This was stated by Samuel Johnson who said of the poem, "I rejoice to concur with the common reader ... The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo". [3] Indeed, Gray's poem follows the style of the mid-century literary endeavour to write of "universal feelings."