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A Pennsylvania Dutch variant, c. 1790, of the Sator Square, one of the spells in The Long Lost Friend. Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend is a book by John George Hohman published in 1820. Hohman was a Pennsylvania Dutch healer; the book is a collection of home- and folk-remedies, as well as spells and talismans.
Hohman's best known work is the collection of prayers and recipes for folk-healing titled Pow-Wows, or the Long Lost Friend, published in German in 1820 as Der Lange Verborgene Freund (The Long-Hidden Friend) and in two English translations—the first in 1846 in a rather crude translation by Hohman himself ("The Long Secreted Friend or a True ...
Mans Wows – Jesse Glass' Mans Wows (1981), is a series of poems and performance pieces mined from John George Hohman's book of charms and healings Pow Wows, or The Long Lost Friend. Darkness erases Joseph Conrad's novella, "whiting out" his text so that only images of the natural world remain, by Poet Yedda Morrison, Published 2012.
Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1815–32); Poems of the Imagination (1836–) 1807 Vaudracour and Julia 1804 "O happy time of youthful lovers (thus" Poems founded on the Affections: 1820 The Cottager to her Infant, by my Sister 1805 "The days are cold, the nights are long," Poems founded on the Affections: 1815 The Waggoner 1805
Enoch Arden (watercolour painting by George Goodwin Kilburne). Fisherman-turned-merchant sailor Enoch Arden leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, having lost his job due to an accident; reflective of a masculine mindset common in that era, Enoch sacrifices his comfort and the companionship of his family in order to better support them.
In Memoriam was a favourite poem of Queen Victoria, who after the death of her husband, the Prince Consort Albert, was "soothed & pleased" by the feelings explored in Tennyson's poem. [15] In 1862 and in 1883, Queen Victoria met Tennyson to tell him she much liked his poetry.
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Sonnet 30 starts with Shakespeare mulling over his past failings and sufferings, including his dead friends and that he feels that he hasn't done anything useful. But in the final couplet Shakespeare comments on how thinking about his friend helps him to recover all of the things that he's lost, and it allows him stop mourning over all that has happened in the past.