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Walt Whitman, aged 37, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer "Pioneers!O Pioneers!" is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman.It was first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. The poem was written as a tribute to Whitman's fervor for the great Westward expansion in the United States that led to things like the California Gold Rush and exploration of the far west.
The Tables Turned is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1798 and published in his Lyrical Ballads. [1]The poem is mainly about the importance of nature.It says that books are just barren leaves that provide empty knowledge, and that nature is the best teacher which can teach more about human, evil and good.
In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, [1] now officially titled "Desiderata." [2] Psychiatrist Merrill Moore distributed more than 1,000 unattributed copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II. [1] After Ehrmann died in 1945, his widow published the work in 1948 in The Poems of Max Ehrmann. The 1948 ...
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Also, recently compiled and organized 60k rhyming words in an intuitive multi-colour format with notes. Email me for a free copy as a word.doc. or if you can help wikify it! Drmies; Thebaitgoat 03:02, 28 October 2013 (UTC)-- contemporary American poetry, especially Kay Ryan ; Rosario Berganza English Romantic poetry
In 2005, her album, “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection,” was nominated for the Grammy Best Spoken Word Album. She was also named one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 “Living Legends.” In the ...
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day. Home, home on the range, Where the deer and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day. Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,
The poem was first presented as a public poetry reading at a New Year's Eve party in 1898. It was soon published in the San Francisco Examiner in January 1899 after its editor heard it at the same party. [2] The poem was also reprinted in other newspapers across the United States due to a chorus of acclaim. [2]