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  2. A Child's Garden of Verses - Wikipedia

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    Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]

  3. The Terrapin - Wikipedia

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    He starts crying, and then his mom informs him that her friend, Mrs. Badzerkian, is coming over for tea, and he should recite one of his poems for her. When he says he will recite "Bed in Summer", [ 2 ] the first poem that comes to mind, she slaps him because he has already recited that poem and shouts when defending his answer.

  4. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work.

  5. Delmore Schwartz - Wikipedia

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    Genesis: Book One (New Directions, 1943), book-length poem about the growth of a human being. The World Is a Wedding (New Directions, 1948), a collection of short stories. Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems (New Directions, 1950). Schwartz, Delmore (1967). Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems. ISBN 9780811201919.

  6. Indian Summer (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Indian Summer" is a popular English poem by Indian poet Jayanta Mahapatra. The poem is widely anthologised in important poetry collections and is used as standard reading material in the English syllabus of most Indian schools, colleges and universities. The poem was originally a part of his collection A Rain of Rites.

  7. Mary Collier - Wikipedia

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    You sup, and go to Bed without delay, And rest yourselves till the ensuing Day; While we, alas! but little Sleep can have... (111-113) A second poem was printed with the Epistle to Mr. Duck. [6] The Three Sentences is a paraphrase of the tale of the Darius contest told in 1 Esdras. Landry (1990) asserts that Collier "tends to couple moral ...

  8. Sleep and Poetry - Wikipedia

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    "Sleep and Poetry" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats.It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. [citation needed] It is often cited [by whom?] as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic, [clarification needed] such as: "First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora ...

  9. Sonnet 27 - Wikipedia

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    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"