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Elizabeth Akers Allen (pen name, Florence Percy; October 9, 1832 – August 7, 1911) was an American poet and journalist.Her early poems appeared over the signature of "Florence Percy", and many of them were first published in the Portland Transcript.
The poem was adopted by the greeting-card industry, led by graphic designer and calligrapher Elizabeth Lucas. Joseph ascribed the popularity of the poem to Lucas. "To her business acumen and energy I owe a hospitable following in California and later throughout northern America, more social, as I said, than literary. [5]
"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem [1] composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. [ 2 ] The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are envious.
Other children: poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1987. What we don't know about each other. Penguin Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0-14-058701-2. The probable world. Penguin. 2000. ISBN 978-0-14-058921-4. Winter at the Caspian Sea (with Stephen Dunn). Palanquin Press. 2002. ISBN 1-891508-24-5. Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems. Tandem ...
At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties (1998) I Have a Name (1996) The End Game and Other Stories (1996) Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934-1994 (1994) Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems (1991) Shadowing the Ground (1991) If We Knew (Polymorph Editions, 1991) New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985 (1986) Leaving ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child.
Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1798 Her eyes are Wild 1798 Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) 1798 Simon Lee 1798
Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940) is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's Poet Laureate) from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.