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In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses (1896) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson. [1] It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1896, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Free Selector's Daughter", "Andy's Gone with Cattle", "Middleton's Rouseabout" and the best of Lawson's contributions to The Bulletin Debate ...
Dane-geld" is a poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It relates to the unwisdom of paying " Danegeld ", or what is nowadays called blackmail and protection money . The most famous lines are "once you have paid him the Danegeld/ You never get rid of the Dane."
The title appears in the poem "Hard Luck" in the book's first section. [2] It refers to a phrase popular in Harlem at the time, referring to citizens who would pawn fine clothes to predominantly Jewish-owned pawn shops when they were short on money. [3] The collection was Hughes' least successful in terms of both sales and critical reception. [4]
Collected Poems 1988: Modesties: 1949-05-13: Collected Poems 2003: Money: 1973-02-19: High Windows: The moon is full tonight... 1944 (best known date) The North Ship: Morning at last: there in the snow... 1976-02-01: Collected Poems 1988: Morning has spread again... 1944 (best known date) The North Ship: Mother, Summer, I: 1953-08 (best known ...
A chapbook of Robert Burns's The Whistle: A Poem. A pamphlet or chapbook is a small collection of poetry, usually 15 to 30 poems, centering around one theme. Poets often publish a pamphlet as their first work. [1] Pamphlets are not usually more than 40 pages. They are sometimes handmade or saddle-stitched, a format best suited for small print runs.
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown " A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown," Leaves of Grass (Book XXI. Drum-Taps) ; The Patriotic Poems I (Poems of War) 1865 A Noiseless Patient Spider" A noiseless patient spider," Leaves of Grass (Book XXX. Whispers of Heavenly Death) 1871 A Paumanok Picture
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
He left money for printing a new edition, and the work of supervising it was undertaken by his pupil, clerk, and friend, Robert Roscoe [q. v.] (son of William Roscoe of Liverpool), who completed the task by adding 2,585 lines, the entire work containing more than 131,000 lines.