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"The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. (A "sourdough", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) [1] It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge [2] (spelled "Lebarge" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.
This was your place of birth, this daytime palace... 1942-02-28: The North Ship: Time and Space were only their disguises... 1941-04 (best known date) Collected Poems 1988: To a Very Slow Air: 1946-09-29: Collected Poems 1988: To Failure: 1949-05-18: Collected Poems 1988: To My Wife: 1951-03-19: Collected Poems 1988: To put one brick upon ...
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been.
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted readers around the world.. The late writer, activist, and poet had a penchant for capturing the most precious moments of human ...
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The youth does not seem to have grown older at all in the three years that the poet has known him. Still, age comes on imperceptibly. If so, future ages will have to know that beauty died before future ages were born. This sonnet deals with the destructive force of time as we grow older. The poet uses his friend as an example.
Beau (poem) Because I could not stop for Death; Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter; Beyond the Alps; Birches (poem) A Bird came down the Walk; The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws; Bivouac of the Dead; Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones) Black Perl; Blue Hills of Massachusetts; The Book of the Dead (poem) Brahma (poem) The Bridge (poem) The Broken ...