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The Greek phrase εἴθε γενοίμην (formally "would I were", or in more modern idiom, "I wish I was") from the poem is quoted by Patrick Leigh Fermor in Iain Moncrieffe's essay for the epilogue to W. Stanley Moss's Ill Met by Moonlight (1950), [9] as well as in John Betjeman's poem "The Olympic Girl" (1954). [10]
[The city had fallen] [I Played in the Smallest Theatres] [The stone is] [They wheeled out] [Lover of endless] [The flies] [History lesson] Part II [The hundred-year-old] [In a forest of] [Everything's foreseeable] [He calls one dog] [A dog with a soul] [Time—the lizard] [Margaret was copying] [A poem about sitting] [Dear Friedrich] [Tropical ...
Vachel Lindsay in 1912. While in New York in 1905 Lindsay turned to poetry in earnest. He tried to sell his poems on the streets. Self-printing his poems, he began to barter a pamphlet titled Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread, which he traded for food as a self-perceived modern version of a medieval troubadour.
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 To Cordelia M----, Hallsteads, Ullswater 1833 "Not in the mines beyond the western main," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes 1833 "Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes"
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Paul McCartney and Youth, performing as The Fireman, borrowed the title of their album Electric Arguments from the poem "Kansas City to St. Louis," in which Ginsberg describes driving along the highway in a "white Volkswagen" (i.e., a "beetle") while listening to music and call-in shows on the radio and looking at signs and billboards:
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Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]