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George Dawe's Genevieve (from the poem Love by Coleridge), 1812 . This poem was first published (with four preliminary and three concluding stanzas) as the Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie, in the Morning Post, on 21 December 1799: included (as Love) in the Lyrical Ballads of 1800, 1802, 1805: reprinted with the text of the Morning Post in English Minstrelsy, 1810, with the following ...
The superstition of hoping for wishes granted when seeing a shooting or falling star may date back to the ancient world. [2] Wishing on the first star seen may also predate this rhyme, which first began to be recorded in late nineteenth-century America. [3]
Michael: the protagonist of the poem, he is strong and hardworking—with a strong love of his land. He is the husband of Isabel and father of Luke, his beloved son. He is eighty years old at the start of the poem. Isabel: the wife of Michael, she is a prodigious woman. She spends her time spinning wool and flax, and is the mother of Luke.
Burton is a poetry enthusiast, and Io (or Kivelsen's hallucinations) quotes several poets, including Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Edmund Hamilton Sears. It quotes several Romantic poems: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , and two by William Wordsworth : The Prelude and the love poem "She Was a ...
Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 [1] as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates.
"Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems. It forms part of the collection known as the Harley Lyrics, and exemplifies its best qualities. [1]
"Star Light, Star Bright" was first published in the July 1953 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It was later included in several anthologies and Bester short story collections, including: Starburst, 1958; Star Light, Star Bright: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester, Volume 2, 1976; Virtual Unrealities, 1997
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink is a 1931 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written during the Great Depression. [1]The poem was included in her collection Fatal Interview, a sequence of 52 sonnets, appearing alongside other sonnets such as "I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields," and "Love me no more, now let the god depart," rejoicing in romantic language and vulnerability. [2]