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John Locke (1847–1889) was an Irish writer and Fenian activist, exiled to the United States, [1] and most famous for writing "Dawn on the Irish Coast", also known as "The Exiles Return, or Morning on the Irish coast".
However, the references to light and darkness in the poem make it virtually certain that Milton's blindness was at least a secondary theme. The sonnet is in the Petrarchan form, with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a c d e c d e but adheres to the Miltonic conception of the form, with a greater usage of enjambment.
13 My beloved is unto me as a bag of myrrh, that lieth betwixt my breasts. 14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna in the vineyards of En-gedi. {S} 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are as doves. 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; also our couch is leafy.
John is a surname which, like the given name John, is derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן , Yôḥanan, meaning "Graced by Yahweh". People with this surname include: Aidan John (born 2000), Canadian football player
Another pattern that is seen is that the poem is continually moved from morning to night and back, which is clear in the periods of light and dark. It is also thought that these metaphors helped pave the way for future English Romantic poets, which supports a school of thought previously mentioned.
In 1996 he won the Forward Prize for Stones and Fires and in 2006 the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children. His poem Ship of Sounds, illustrated with a wood engraving by the artist Garrick Palmer, was published in 1981 in an edition of 130 by The Gruffyground Press.
Whittier spent the last winters of his life, from 1876 to 1892, at Oak Knoll, the home of his cousins in Danvers, Massachusetts. [27] Whittier spent the summer of 1892 at the home of a cousin in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, where he wrote his last poem (a tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.) and where he was captured in a final photograph. [28]
Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispiece depicting Milton surrounded by four muses, designed by William Marshall. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas.