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Rod Stewart recorded a song titled "Forever Young" that was released as a single and included on his 1988 album Out of Order. Stewart's manager, Arnold Stiefel, said, " [I]t would be fair to say that while the melody and the music is not at all the same [as Dylan's song], the idea of the song is similar. The architecture of the lyrics of the ...
Excelsior (Longfellow) Illustration for Longfellow's poem "Excelsior" from an 1846 collection. The poem was included in Ballads and Other Poems (1842), which also included other well-known poems such as "The Wreck of the Hesperus". " Excelsior " is a short poem written in 1841 by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
There shall be. Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. " The Soldier " is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. It is the fifth and final sonnet in the sequence 1914, published posthumously in 1915 in the collection 1914 and Other Poems. The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge.
In Flanders Fields. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
The Song of Hiawatha. Hiawatha and Minnehaha, a bronze sculpture created by Jacob Fjelde in 1912 near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis. The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named ...
The sonnet seems to be firmly against mourning after death, but really it is for mourning the dead but only in a timely manner. "The sonnet's first-person subject demands that mourning—even if it lasts only for one minute or one day—coincides with, rather than succeed, the death knell that will "Give warning to the world that I am fled." [11]
The Dream of Gerontius is an 1865 poem written by John Henry Newman, consisting of the prayer of a dying man, and angelic and demonic responses. The poem, written after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, [1] explores his new Catholic-held beliefs of the journey from death through Purgatory, thence to Paradise, and to God.
Learn to labor and to wait. " A Psalm of Life " is a poem written by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, often subtitled "What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist". [1] Longfellow wrote the poem not long after the death of his first wife and while thinking about how to make the best of life.