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  2. Bessie Anderson Stanley - Wikipedia

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    Her poem was written in 1904 for a contest held in Brown Book Magazine, [5] by George Livingston Richards Co. of Boston, Massachusetts [2] Mrs. Stanley submitted the words in the form of an essay, rather than as a poem. The competition was to answer the question "What is success?" in 100 words or less. Mrs. Stanley won the first prize of $250. [6]

  3. June Jordan - Wikipedia

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    Poetry for the People is the arduous and happy outcome of practical, day-by-day, classroom failure and success. [23] Jordan composed three guideline points that embodied the program, which was published with a set of her students' writings in 1995, entitled June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint. [23]

  4. Gaudeamus igitur - Wikipedia

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    A poem starting with the words Subscribere proposui ("I have suggested signing (it)") has two verses that closely resemble the later Gaudeamus igitur verses, although neither the first verse nor the actual words Gaudeamus igitur appear. The music accompanying this poem bears no relation to the melody which is now associated with it.

  5. Success is counted sweetest - Wikipedia

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    As first published under the title "Success" in A Masque of Poets, 1878 "Success is counted sweetest" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson written in 1859 and published anonymously in 1864. The poem uses the images of a victorious army and one dying warrior to suggest that only one who has suffered defeat can understand success.

  6. John Gambril Nicholson - Wikipedia

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    Havelock Ellis wrote that Nicholson's verse showed “delicate charm combined with high technical skill.” [6]. Nicholson's first book of poems Love in Earnest (1892) was dedicated to the memory of his mother, but the first section, a sequence of 50 numbered sonnets (which open with "Some lightly love, but mine is Love in Earnest -/My heart is ever faithful while it hears/An echo of itself in ...

  7. Emily Dickinson - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 February 2025. American poet (1830–1886) Emily Dickinson Daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847; the only authenticated portrait of Dickinson after early childhood Born (1830-12-10) December 10, 1830 Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. Died May 15, 1886 (1886-05-15) (aged 55 ...

  8. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Wikipedia

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    His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first wife, Mary Potter, died in 1835 after a miscarriage.

  9. Robert Lowell - Wikipedia

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    Along with Lowell's father and grandfather, she is a central subject in Life Studies, specifically in the poems "Sailing Home From Rapallo," "91 Revere Street," and "Commander Lowell". The poems in Life Studies were written in a mix of free and metered verse, with much more informal language than he had used in his first three books. [5]