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  2. Robert W. Service - Wikipedia

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    The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Other Favorite Poems, jacket drawing by Eric Watts (Dodd Mead, 1980) Servicewise and Otherwise: a selection of extracts in prose and verse from the works of Robert W. Service, which may serve as an introduction to the virile writings of that celebrated author; collected and arranged by Arthur H. Stewart

  3. Ezra Pound - Wikipedia

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    Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.

  4. Desiderata - Wikipedia

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    In a 2012 interview on Oprah Winfrey's Master Class television special, actor Morgan Freeman explained how deeply the poem had shaped his life. [26] When former Illinois governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson died in 1965, a copy of the poem was found near his bedside, as he had planned to use it in his Christmas ...

  5. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent - Wikipedia

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    The last three lines are particularly well known; they conclude with "They also serve who only stand and wait", which is much quoted though rarely in context. Variants of it have been used as mottos in a number of contexts, for example the Dickin Medal for service animals bears the motto "We also serve", and the Navy Wives Clubs of America uses ...

  6. Ars Poetica (Archibald MacLeish) - Wikipedia

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    The poem displays formal elements, but is not subject to one formal trope. The feet in the poem are mostly iambic, but the meter varies. There is not a defined rhyme scheme, but there are rhyming couplets appearing throughout. This homage, but not direct deference to, formality, plays off the poem's relation to (and subversion of) normal poetic ...

  7. In Flanders Fields - Wikipedia

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    The poem and poppy are prominent Remembrance Day symbols throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, particularly in Canada, where "In Flanders Fields" is one of the nation's best-known literary works. The poem is also widely known in the United States, where it is associated with Veterans Day and Memorial Day.

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  9. To His Coy Mistress - Wikipedia

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    "To His Coy Mistress" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. [2] This poem is considered one of Marvell's finest and is possibly the best recognised carpe diem poem in English ...