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Kuṟuntokai. Kuṟuntokai (Tamil: குறுந்தொகை, meaning the short-collection[1]) is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the second of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. [2] The collection belongs to the akam (love) category, and each poem consists of 4 to 8 lines each (except poem 307 and ...
A reading of "Fire and Ice". " Fire and Ice " is a short poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It was first published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine [1] and was later published in Frost's 1923 Pulitzer Prize -winning book New Hampshire ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, Winter, was published in 1726, and the completed poem cycle appeared in 1730. [1] The poem was extremely influential, and stimulated works by Joshua Reynolds, John Christopher Smith, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner. [1]
Robert W. Service. Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon ". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.
Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes. " Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes ", also known simply as " Fleas ", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full: Had 'em.
Notable works. The Canterbury Tales. Signature. Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈtʃɔːsər / CHAW-sər; c.1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [ 1 ] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [ 2 ]
Signature. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before ...