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Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Poems about chess (4 P) Pages in category "Sports poems" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of ...
Braley was a prolific author of poems, prose, plays, and humorous non-fiction articles Sonnets of a Freshman (1904). Illustrated by C. R. Freeman. Madison, WI: Wisconsin State Journal. The Oracle on Smoke: being a few utterances in a simple and not at all delphic style, with certain so-called poems there among scattered (1905). Madison, WI: The ...
It also includes a "Poetry Round Robin" where famous poems are rewritten in the style of the next poet in line, featured Casey at the Bat as written by Edgar Allan Poe. Sportswriter Leonard Koppett claimed in a 1979 tongue-in-cheek article that the published poem omits 18 lines penned by Thayer, which changed the overall theme of the poem ...
A Tingling Catch: A Century of New Zealand Cricket Poems 1864–2009, edited by Mark Pirie (Wellington, N.Z.: HeadworX Publishers). ISBN 978-0-473-16872-8. First anthology of New Zealand cricket poems. Cautionary Tales from the Pavilion: A Short Collection of Verse, by Giscard Drew (2014) Hows Its, by Nick Whittock (Inken Publish, 2014).
Bessie Anderson Stanley (born Caroline Elizabeth Anderson; March 25, 1879 – October 2, 1952) was an American writer, the author of the poem "Success" ("What is success?" or "What Constitutes Success?"), which is often incorrectly attributed [ 1 ] to Ralph Waldo Emerson [ 2 ] [ 3 ] or Robert Louis Stevenson .
"Bond and Free" "Birches" "Pea Brush" "Putting in the Seed" "A Time to Talk" "The Cow in Apple Time" "An Encounter" "Range-Finding" "Cranberries at Noon" "The Hill Wife" "The Bonfire" "A Girl's Garden" "Locked Out" "The Last Word of a Blue Bird" "Out, Out-" "Brown's Descent, or the Willy-nilly Slide" "The Gum-Gatherer" "The Line-Gang" "The ...
The Poetry Archive is a free, web-based library formed to hold recordings of English language poets reading their own work. The Archive holds over 20000 poems and keeps the recordings safe and accessible so that current and future visitors can enjoy them. Each poet's work is surrounded by contextual information and biographies and has become a ...