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"The Wind" shows great inventiveness in its choice of metaphors and similes, while employing extreme metrical complexity. [9] It is one of the classic examples [10] [11] of the use of what has been called "a guessing game technique" [12] or "riddling", [13] a technique known in Welsh as dyfalu, comprising the stringing together of imaginative and hyperbolic similes and metaphors.
Climbing the hill within the deafening wind... 1944-10-23: The North Ship: Come then to prayers... 1946-05-13: Collected Poems 1988: Coming: 1950-02-25: The Less Deceived: Coming at last to night's most thankful springs... 1945-03-01: Collected Poems 1988: Compline: 1950-02-12: Collected Poems 1988: Conscript (for James Ballard Sutton) 1941-10 ...
Patience (Middle English: Pacience) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed St. Erkenwald.
An asterisk indicates that this poem, or part of this poem, occurs elsewhere in the fascicles or sets but its subsequent occurrences are not noted. Thus "F01.03.016*" indicates the 16th poem within fascicle #1, which occurs on the 3rd signature or sheet bound in that fascicle; and that this poem (or part of it) also recurs elsewhere in the ...
To the same Flower (second poem) [Sequel to "To the Small Celandine"] 1802, 1 May "Pleasures newly found are sweet" Poems of the Fancy: 1807 Resolution and Independence: 1802, 3 May – 4 July "There was a roaring in the wind all night;" Poems of the Imagination: 1807 I grieved for Buonaparte 1802, 21 May "I Grieved for Buonaparte, with a vain"
Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here " Soon shall the winter's foil be here;" Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV. Sands at Seventy) Sounds of the Winter " Sounds of the winter too," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXV. Good-bye my Fancy) Spain, 1873–74 " Out of the murk of heaviest clouds," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXII. From Noon to Starry Night)
The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), on the night of the winter solstice, "the darkest evening of the year", pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go ...
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by American composer William Thayer Ames, [6] a choral setting of the poem. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by American composer Cecil William Bentz, [7] a choral setting of the poem in his opus, "Two Short Poems by Robert Frost." "Nothing Gold Can Stay" [8] by American composer Steven Bryant, [9] an instrumental chorale ...