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The poem is a dream vision; the first line reads "I wander all night in my vision". [6] At the beginning of the poem, the narrator is described as "Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory". In the dream, they travel to various places, visiting people as they are asleep.
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...
Reciting a poem aloud the reciter comes to understand and then to be the 'voice' of the poem. [2] As poetry is a vocal art, the speaker brings their own experience to it, changing it according to their own sensibilities, [ 3 ] intonation, the matter of sound making sense; controlled through pitch and stress, poems are full of invisible ...
This poem begins "Sleep on, sleep on, another hour" and first appeared in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter on May 11, 1833. [43] It was signed "TAMERLANE" (just as the poem "Fanny," which would be printed in the same periodical one week later) and addressed to an anonymous woman. It is essentially a lullaby.
To Sleep (1) 1806 "O gentle sleep! do they belong to thee," Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807 To Sleep (2) 1806 "Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep!" Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807 To Sleep (3) 1806 "A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by," Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807 Michael Angelo in reply to the passage upon his Statue of Night sleeping 1806
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A page from Night-Thoughts, illustrated by William Blake. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, better known simply as Night-Thoughts, is a long poem by Edward Young published in nine parts (or "nights") between 1742 and 1745.