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Trees (poem) " Trees " is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and included in Kilmer's 1914 collection Trees and Other Poems. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The poem, in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, describes what Kilmer ...
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.
On Fairy-Stories. " Leaf by Niggle " is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39 [T 1] and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. It was reprinted in Tolkien's book Tree and Leaf, and in several later collections. Contrary to Tolkien's claim that he despised allegory in any form, the story is an allegory of Tolkien ...
Nothing gold can stay. " Nothing Gold Can Stay " is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [ 1 ] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Binsey Poplars. ‘All felled, felled, are all felled’ — photograph of felled poplar trees with a line from the poem ‘Binsey Poplars’. Gerard Manley Hopkins, author of ‘Binsey Poplars’. "Binsey Poplars" is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), written in 1879. [1][2] The poem was inspired by the felling of a row of poplar ...
The poem has a heavy focus on decay and deterioration: the leaves are "withering" and the narrator's thoughts are "palsied". [3] Like many of Poe's later poems, "Ulalume" has a strong sense of rhythm and musicality. [4] The verses are purposefully sonorous, built around sound to create feelings of sadness and anguish. [5]
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Leaves of Grass (1882)/Memories of President Lincoln/When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd at Wikisource. " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " is a long poem written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) as an elegy to President Abraham Lincoln. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning ...