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Tithonus (poem) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, author of "Tithonus". " Tithonus " is a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92), originally written in 1833 as "Tithon" and completed in 1859. It first appeared in the February edition of the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. Faced with old age, Tithonus, weary of his immortality, yearns for ...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes the following text as one of the many poetic versions of the speech: [2] [3] First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.
Birches (poem) " Birches " is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. First published in the August 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly together with "The Road Not Taken" and "The Sound of Trees" as "A Group of Poems". It was included in Frost's third collection of poetry Mountain Interval, which was published in 1916.
Inspirational quotes. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”. — Serena Williams. “Your worth consists in what you are, and not ...
1910 (114 years ago) ( 1910) " If— " is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [ 1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [ 2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of ...
Blunt quotes about change. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”. ― James Baldwin. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change ...
The vision pulls you.”. — Steve Jobs. "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." — W. Clement Stone"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon ...
Ode to a Nightingale. " Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the ...