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A line from the poem inspired the title and themes in Stops of Various Quills, an 1895 poetry collection by William Dean Howells. [31] Similarly, it is from a line in "Lycidas" that Thomas Wolfe took the name of his novel Look Homeward, Angel: Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye Dolphins', waft the hapless youth. (163–164)
The golden line according to Anne Mahoney's Overview of Latin Syntax, (note that one of her examples of the golden line is a line with a noun in the genitive instead of an adjective) Uni-Koeln.de , an article suggesting that the golden line is from Greek Hellenistic poetry, J.D. Reed, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 106 (1995) 94–95
The title comes from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from the collection Barrack-Room Ballads, in which Kipling describes foot soldiers as "the thin red line of 'eroes". Kipling's poem is based on the 1854 action of British soldiers during the Crimean War called The Thin Red Line (Battle of Balaclava).
The Thin Red Line described an episode of the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War. [3] In the incident, around 500 men of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders led by Sir Colin Campbell, aided by a small force of 100 walking wounded, 40 detached Guardsmen, and supported by a substantial force of Turkish infantrymen, formed a line of fire against the Russian cavalry.
Her poem 'WHITE GOLD' is part of Image issue 8, "Deserted." Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [ 1 ] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry .
The Thin Red Line (1881) by Robert Gibb, depicting the 93rd Regiment of Foot of the British army fighting off Russian cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854. From British English, an entirely different figure of speech for an act of great courage against impossible order or thinly spread military unit holding firm against attack, or the "thin red line", originates from reports of a red ...
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