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"The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" is a poem written by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1843. It details the religious persecution of Cassandra Southwick's youngest daughter Provided Southwick, a Quaker woman who lived in Salem, Massachusetts and is the only white female known to be put up at auction as a slave in the United States.
The Small Celandine (third poem) 1804 "There is a Flower, the lesser Celandine," Poems referring to the Period of Old Age 1807 At Applethwaite, near Keswick, 1804 1804 "Beaumont! it was thy wish that I should rear" Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1842 From the same [Michael Angelo]. To the Supreme Being. 1804? "The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed"
That being said, if you are having trouble coming up with a list or even getting into the right frame of mind, these 30 Thanksgiving poems should help in an encouraging way. When you can't come up ...
The Blessings of the Years (1963) Come Happy Day (1966) Give me a Quiet Corner (1972) A Joy Forever (1973) With a Poem in My Pocket (Autobiography, 1981) Poems from the Fighting Forties (1982) Fifty Golden Years (1985, to commemorate her fiftieth anniversary as Patience Strong) Tapestries of Time (1991)
[4] In this, the man in the poem is trying to show his love to his rose tree, but only seems to have the love unrequited, even though he treats the rose tree like royalty. This echoes the idea of "Human Love" as we often want things we can't have, and become infatuated with things, or idealizing them instead of actually loving them.
[a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman. Fragment 31 has been the subject of numerous translations and adaptations from ancient times to the present day.
"The Hymn of Joy" [1] (often called "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" after the first line) is a poem written by Henry van Dyke in 1907 in being a Vocal Version of the famous "Ode to Joy" melody of the final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's final symphony, Symphony No. 9.
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