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"After Apple-Picking" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. It was published in 1914 in North of Boston, Frost's second poetry collection. [1] The poem, 42 lines in length, does not strictly follow a particular form (instead consisting of mixed iambs), nor does it follow a standard rhyme scheme.
In Sonnet 27 the weary poet cannot find rest — not day or night. He goes to bed weary after working hard, which is the "toil" of line one, and the "travail" of line two. As soon as he lies down, another journey begins in his thoughts ("To work my mind") — the destination is the young man, who is far from where the poet is ("from far where I abide"
Falling Awake is a 2016 poetry collection by English poet Alice Oswald, published by Jonathan Cape. [1] Her seventh book of poetry, [2] it won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. The poems explore themes relating to nature, mutability, cycles and rebirth, as well as mythology.
He lies sleepless all night, wanting to be able to sleep, but he cannot. He imagines a flock of sheep leisurely passing by, one after one. He tries imagining the sound of rain, the murmur of bees, the fall of rivers, winds and seas, smooth fields, calm waters and clear sky. He has thought of every pleasant things, but nothing helps.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (めくらやなぎと眠る女, Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna) is a collection of 24 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.. The stories contained in the book were written between 1980 and 2005, and published in Japan in various magazines and collections.
A song was created from the poem by Harold Fraser-Simson, who put many of Milne's poems to music. "Halfway Down the Stairs" was used in the first season of The Muppet Show. The performance was staged in the middle of a flight of stairs, and became the most significant performance of the season for Kermit the Frog's nephew Robin the Frog.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [1] [2]) and Sigurd's wife Gudrun.
While prone to falling asleep, Dormouse tries to be helpful to Ariko (the game's "Alice") and treats her gently. In one of the bad endings, Dormouse is killed by a twisted Cheshire Cat. [4] [5] The Dormouse appears as a member of the Mad T Party band at Disneyland's California Adventure Park.