query: when was the poem then and now written

pos: Oodgeroo Noonuccal and the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Award. In 1979, she was awarded the Sixth Annual Oscar at the Micheaux Awards Ceremony, hosted by the US Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and in the same year received the International Acting Award for the film Shadow Sisters. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1970, returning it in 1987 to protest the Australian Bicentenary celebrations, and to make a political statement at the condition of her people. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Oodgeroo Noonuccal was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of

neg: Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Now I lay me down to sleep is a classic children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century. Perhaps the earliest version was written by Joseph Addison in an essay appearing in "The Spectator" on 8th March 1711. It says: <poem> When I lay me down to Sleep, I recommend my self to His care; when I awake, I give my self up to His Direction, </poem> A later version printed in "The New England Primer" goes: <poem> Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If

neg: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded now was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine. Be Thou my consolation, my shield when I must die; Remind me of Thy passion when my last hour draws nigh. Mine eyes shall then behold Thee, upon Thy cross shall dwell, My heart by faith enfolds Thee. Who dieth thus dies well.</poem> O Sacred Head, Now Wounded "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" is a Christian Passion hymn based on a Latin text written during the Middle Ages. Paul Gerhardt wrote a German version which is known by its incipit, "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden".

neg: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (poem) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (poem) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Владимир Ильич Ленин) is an epic poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1923-1924. First fragments of it appeared in October 1924 in numerous Soviet newspapers, then, as a separate edition it came out in February 1925 via Leningrad's Gosizdat. Mayakovsky's four-poem Lenin Cycle started in April 1920 with "Vladimir Ilyich!" published in the days when Vladimir Lenin's 50th birthday was celebrated all over the country. Then in 1923 came "We Do Not Believe!" (Мы не верим!), written in the wake of the news of Lenin's fatal illness. It was at that time that

neg: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Poe's first collection "Tamerlane and Other Poems". Poe may have written it while serving in the army. The poem discusses a self-pitying loss of youth, though it was written when Poe was about 19. A nearly identical poem called "Original" written by Poe's brother William Henry Leonard Poe was first published in the September 15, 1827 issue of the "North American". It is believed Poe wrote the poem and sent it to his brother, who then sent it to the magazine. T. O. Mabbott felt that the rather tepid value of this slightly edited version of the poem suggests that

neg: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (poem) narrative which proved to be so restrictive for his constructive horizons." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (poem) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Владимир Ильич Ленин) is an epic poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1923-1924. First fragments of it appeared in October 1924 in numerous Soviet newspapers, then, as a separate edition it came out in February 1925 via Leningrad's Gosizdat. Mayakovsky's four-poem Lenin Cycle started in April 1920 with "Vladimir Ilyich!" published in the days when Vladimir Lenin's 50th birthday was celebrated all over the country. Then in 1923 came "We Do Not Believe!" (Мы не верим!), written in the wake of the

neg: Adlestrop (poem) Adlestrop (poem) "Adlestrop" is a poem by Edward Thomas. It is based on a railway journey Thomas took on 24 June 1914, during which his train briefly stopped at the now-closed station in the Gloucestershire village of Adlestrop. The poem was written, not during or immediately after the 1914 journey, but at Thomas's leisure. He began making notes for it the following January, and created several versions of the poem before it was ready for publication. Since then, the poem has become symbolic of a turning-point in Thomas's literary career, and is used as such in the title of Jean

neg: Mandalay (poem) of the City of Mahagonny". Mandalay (poem) "Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in "Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses" in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India. The protagonist is a Cockney working-class soldier, back in grey restrictive London, recalling the time he felt free and had a Burmese girlfriend, now unattainably far away. The poem became well known, especially after it was set to music by Oley Speaks in 1907, and was admired by Kipling's contemporaries, though some of them objected to its muddled

neg: Mandalay (poem) Mandalay (poem) "Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in "Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses" in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India. The protagonist is a Cockney working-class soldier, back in grey restrictive London, recalling the time he felt free and had a Burmese girlfriend, now unattainably far away. The poem became well known, especially after it was set to music by Oley Speaks in 1907, and was admired by Kipling's contemporaries, though some of them objected to its muddled geography. It has been criticised

neg: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe now often included in anthologies. "Alone" is often interpreted as autobiographical, expressing the author's feelings of isolation and inner torment. Poet Daniel Hoffman believed "Alone" was evidence that "Poe really "was" a haunted man." The poem, however, is an introspective about Poe's youth, written when he was only 20 years old. The last complete poem written by Poe, it was published shortly after his death in 1849. The speaker of the poem talks about a lost love, Annabel Lee, and may have been based on Poe's own relationship with his wife Virginia, though that is disputed. First published after Poe's

neg: V (poem) V (poem) "V" (sometimes styled "v.") is a poem by Tony Harrison written in 1985. The poem aroused much controversy when broadcast in film version on British public-service television's Channel 4 due to its extensive use of profanity and racial epithets. The poem uses profanity directly as well as when quoting graffiti. "V" describes the author's visit to his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery "now littered with beer cans and vandalised by obscene graffiti". The cemetery in question is Holbeck cemetery in the Beeston area of Leeds which overlooks the Elland Road football ground, close to where Harrison grew

neg: Altar poem kind of production was now over in any case. John Dryden satirised the Baroque taste in his “Mac Flecknoe” and Joseph Addison singled out Herbert’s “The Altar” and its companion piece, “Easter Wings”, as a false and obsolete kind of wit. In Germany, too, where there had been a similar craze, Johann Leonhard Frisch composed some extreme examples, including an altar bearing a flaming heart, as satires upon the style. Few more shaped poems were to be written until centuries later, and then in the service of a completely different aesthetic. Altar poem An altar poem is a pattern poem

neg: Edwin Romanzo Elmer It was first displayed in a local post office in 1890, then disappeared until the 1950s, when a niece of the artist showed it to the director of the Smith Museum. It was then that Elmer's talent was first recognized and his paintings put on display. The poet Adrienne Rich has written a poem about "Mourning Picture" from the dead daughter's point of view. The picture now hangs in the Smith College Museum of Art – Northampton, Massachusetts. Edwin Romanzo Elmer Edwin Romanzo Elmer (1850–1923) was an American portrait, genre and still life painter. Known for his attention to detail,

neg: Ambri (poem) to write two times about this incident but he was not satisfied with it as enough feelings were not there. Then, after ten years, when he was on his job in Pindigheb, he wrote about the whole incident and he didn't even have to change the names of the boys in his poem. He said that, at that time, he had come to realize that the poem had come to him with its own lines. It was meant to be written like this- a delayed poem, rather than when I was forcing myself to write it. He further said that

neg: Duncan MacGregor Crerar Another poem receiving some further reference was "My Bonnie Rowan Tree", dedicated to his brother John Crerar, and written in New York on September 25, 1876: <poem> </poem> [in "History of the Pioneers of North Easthope"; Alex. Muir Mackenzie, Taketties & Tyres in Strathbraan: at 28; the "Celtic Magazine" (Inverness), Nov. 1882)] “Caledonia’s Bonnie Blue Bells”, written in New York, September 23, 1881, recounts his visit to his family’s now-deserted croft, and discovering his father’s bed now exposed to the Scottish elements: <poem> </poem> [Celtic Magazine, February 1882; Alex. Muir Mackenzie, Taketties & Tyres in Strathbraan, at 26] A stanza

neg: Riverina themes of the day. It is seen now as reflecting Australia's largest industry at the time and the work of ordinary Australians. The painting is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. "Scots of the Riverina", a poem written by one of Australia's most renowned writers, Henry Lawson, is set in Gundagai. The poem describes a father's anger at his son's desertion at harvest time and later his grief when the son dies in battle in World War I. "Hay and Hell and Booligal", written by Banjo Paterson, is a humorous take on life on the flat

neg: Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime In harmony we all shall live, In Virtue train'd, enlighten'd Youth And future years shall prove the truth Then let us toast with three times three </poem> Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime "Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime" is an English poem written by Robert Burns. <poem style="margin-left:2em"> Why should we idly waste our prime Come rouse to arms! 'Tis now the time 'Tis said that Kings can do no wrong — And, since from us their power is sprung, Now each true patriot's song shall be: — Proud Priests and Bishops we'll translate The guillotine on

neg:
Firefly Estate lawn that was once a lookout for Henry Morgan, then converted to a bar by Sir Noël, is now a gift shop and restaurant. On one of Firefly's walls is written his last poem. It begins:
 "When I have fears, as Keats had fears,"
 "Of the moment I'll cease to be,"
 "I console myself with vanished years,"
 "Remembered laughter, remembered tears,"
 "And the peace of the changing sea." Firefly Estate Firefly Estate, located east of Oracabessa, Jamaica, is the burial place of Sir Noël Coward and his former vacation home. It is now listed as a National Heritage Site by

neg: Máj Máj Máj (Czech for the month "May"; ) is a romantic poem by Karel Hynek Mácha in four cantos. It was fiercely criticized when first published, but since then has gained the status of one of the most prominent works of Czech literature; in the Czech Republic, the poem now is memorized by schoolchildren and continuously in print. According to the author's epilogue, the poem is a homage to the beauty of spring. It is set in a bucolic landscape, inspired by such features as a lake then called Big Pond (), and now called Lake Mácha (), after the

neg: The Minstrel Boy </poem> During the American Civil War a third verse was written by an unknown author, and is sometimes included in renditions of the song: <poem> The Minstrel Boy will return we pray When we hear the news we all will cheer it, The minstrel boy will return one day, Torn perhaps in body, not in spirit. Then may he play on his harp in peace, In a world such as heaven intended, For all the bitterness of man must cease, And ev'ry battle must be ended. </poem> The Minstrel Boy "The Minstrel Boy" is an Irish patriotic song written by

neg: Yuan Phai Yuan Phai Yuan Phai (, also known as Lilit Yuan Phai, , see below for details), "Defeat of the Yuan," is a historical epic poem in the Thai language about rivalry between Siam and Lanna culminating in a battle that took place in 1474/5 AD at the place now called Si Satchanalai. The Yuan are the people of Lanna or Yonok, then an independent kingdom in the upper reaches of the Chao Phraya River basin with a capital at Chiang Mai. The poem was written to celebrate King Boromma Trailokanat of Ayutthaya (r. 1448-1488), the victor. The poem was probably

neg: V (poem) frustrations on the rest of us". When told of this, Harrison retorted that Howarth was "Probably another idiot MP wishing to impose his intellectual limitations on the rest of us". Despite continued protests from conservative factions of the press and parliament, the broadcast went ahead, and there were very few complaints from viewers. Since then, the poem has been selected for study in some schools. The BBC also broadcast the poem in full on 18 February 2013 on BBC Radio 4. V (poem) "V" (sometimes styled "v.") is a poem by Tony Harrison written in 1985. The poem aroused much

neg: Abbottabad (poem) original. Abbottabad (poem) "Abbottabad" is a poem by Major James Abbott (1807–1896) who wrote the work about his experience of living in the area before leaving it. He was impressed by beauty of the area. The Pakistani city Abbottabad, which he founded (then capital of the Hazara District of British India), is named after him. A plaque commemorating his poem is displayed at Lady Garden Park within the city. The poem has been criticised as being poorly written, in the manner of William McGonagall's substandard verse. <poem> I remember the day when I first came here And smelt the sweet

neg: Abbottabad (poem) Abbottabad (poem) "Abbottabad" is a poem by Major James Abbott (1807–1896) who wrote the work about his experience of living in the area before leaving it. He was impressed by beauty of the area. The Pakistani city Abbottabad, which he founded (then capital of the Hazara District of British India), is named after him. A plaque commemorating his poem is displayed at Lady Garden Park within the city. The poem has been criticised as being poorly written, in the manner of William McGonagall's substandard verse. <poem> I remember the day when I first came here And smelt the sweet Abbottabad

neg: The Tay Bridge Disaster The Tay Bridge Disaster "The Tay Bridge Disaster" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been widely recognised as the worst poet in history. The poem recounts the events of the evening of December 28, 1879, when, during a severe gale, the Tay Rail Bridge at Dundee collapsed as a train was passing over it with the loss of all on board (now thought to be 75 people and not 90 as stated in the poem). The foundations of the bridge were not removed and are alongside the newer bridge. The poem is

neg: Infrarealism Manifesto"), written by Bolaño, and a poem by Papasquiaro titled "Consejos de un discípulo de Marx a un fanático de Heidegger" ("Advice from a disciple of Marx to a Heidegger fanatic"). Written in the days when Papasquiaro frequented the Alejandro Aura’s workshop in Casa del Lago, the poem served as inspiration for the title of the first novel by his friend Bolaño, now living in Spain: "Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce" ("Advice from a disciple of Morrison to a Joyce fanatic"), written in collaboration with A. G. Porta. The magazine’s poems were characterised by

neg: Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton letter written in November 1594, about six weeks after Southampton had turned 21, the Jesuit Henry Garnet reported the rumour that "The young Erle of Southampton refusing the Lady Veere payeth £5000 of present payment". In 1591 Lord Burghley's Clerk in Chancery, John Clapham, dedicated to Southampton a poem in Latin, "Narcissus", recounting the Greek legend of a beautiful young man who perishes through self-love. According to Akrigg, Southampton was now spending much of his time at court. He was in attendance when Queen Elizabeth visited Oxford in late September 1592, and was praised fulsomely in the Latin poem written

neg: Alexander's Feast (Dryden poem) Alexander's Feast (Dryden poem) Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music (1697) is an ode by John Dryden. It was written to celebrate Saint Cecilia's Day. Jeremiah Clarke set the original ode to music, however the score is now lost. The main body of the poem describes the feast given by Alexander the Great at the Persian capital Persepolis, after his defeat of Darius. Alexander's bard Timotheus sings praises of him. Alexander's emotions are manipulated by the singer's poetry and music. Timotheus glorifies him as a god, puffing up Alexander's pride. He then sings of the pleasures of wine, encouraging

neg: Time's Paces Then when the years saw me a man, Time ran. But as I older grew, Time flew. Soon, as I journey on, I'll find time gone. May Christ have saved my soul, by then, Amen. Time's Paces Time's Paces is a poem about the apparent speeding up of time as one gets older. It was written by Henry Twells (1823–1900) and published in his book "Hymns and Other Stray Verses" (1901). The poem was popularised by Guy Pentreath (1902–1985) in an amended version. Pentreath saw the poem "Time's Paces" attached to a clock case in the North Transept of Chester

neg: Crib talk so Mommy Daddy go in their car, Emmy Daddy go in the car, Emmy Daddy Mommy go in the car, broke, Da … da, the car … their, their, care broken (continues) . </poem> <poem> When mormor get me, when Mormor mae pretty, Mommy had a help, my sleep, Mommy came and Mommy get, get up, time to go home. When my slep and, and, Mormor came. Then Mommy coming then get up, time to go ho-o-me. Time to go home. Drink p-water [Perrier]. Yesterday did that. Now Emmy sleeping in regular bed. </poem> George Miller has noted that the

neg: Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot he had a terminal illness. In a response dated 2 August, Pope indicates that he planned to write more satire, and on 25 August told Arbuthnot that he was going to address one of his epistles to him, later characterizing it as a memorial to their friendship. Arbuthnot died on 27 February 1735, eight weeks after the poem was published. According to Pope the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" was a satire "written piecemeal many years, and which I have now made haste to put together." The poem was completed by 3 September, when Pope wrote to Arbuthnot describing the poem

neg: Columbia Springs the duels and never reopened. The ruins of the hotel and outbuildings may have still been standing by 1891 when a writer then commented; "scarcely a vestige of the hotel now remains." Eventually the main building as well as the service buildings were dismantled. The serenity of the springs proved inspirational to those who visited and vacationed there during its prime. At least one unknown poet was inspired to pen the following epic poem while at the springs, which was first published in the Louisiana Advertiser, October 7, 1826. Written in the port folio of a Gentleman at the Columbia

neg: Zang Tumb Tumb Zang Tumb Tumb Zang Tumb Tumb (usually referred to as "Zang Tumb Tuuum") is a sound poem and concrete poem written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian futurist. It appeared in excerpts in journals between 1912 and 1914, when it was published as an artist's book in Milan. It is an account of the Battle of Adrianople, which he witnessed as a reporter for "L'Intransigeant". The poem uses "Parole in libertà" (words in freedom; creative typography) and other poetic impressions of the events of the battle, including the sounds of gunfire and explosions. The work is now seen as a

neg: Jamaica Labrish Jamaica Labrish Jamaica Labrish is a poetry compilation written by Louise Bennett-Coverley. The 1966 version published by Sangsters is 244 pages long with an introduction by Rex Nettleford and includes a four-page glossary, as the poems are written mainly in Jamaican Patois. There are 128 poems in the book, and they tend to follow the ballad-quintrain style of writing. Nettleford says that "read at the proper pace the poem becomes almost a tongue-twister." The poems are sectioned into four parts: "City Life", "War Time", "Politics" and "Jamaica – Now An' Then". Every poem opens up with a small blurb as

neg: Sorry (Beyoncé song) with her love interest's cheating affair, "Sorry" is placed in the middle, during the stage called "apathy"; the clips opens with that word written across the screen. Beyoncé is then heard reciting a spoken-word poem about infidelity written by Warsan Shire over the slow melody of a jewelry box playing a theme from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake". The poem included the lines "So what are you gonna say at my funeral, now that you've killed me?" and "Ashes to ashes, dust to side chicks", the latter text referencing verses from the Bible. As the song begins, the visual

neg: Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore) parody, but Hester Thrale says that he soon came to his senses and realized that Johnson was satirizing the form, and not the poem. Soon after, he said, This extemporized parody was written down by Boswell and others. It may have been aimed less at Percy than at the ballads that were then appearing nearly daily on every subject. Percy carried out most of the literary work for which he is now remembered at Easton Maudit. When he became famous, he was made domestic chaplain to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, and was tempted into the belief that he

neg: Renascence (poem) title. Millay's fame began in 1912 when the nineteen-year-old, encouraged by her mother, entered her poem "Renascence" in a poetry contest in "The Lyric Year". Millay had written and published poetry in "St. Nicholas", a children's magazine, throughout her teen years, and had become a proficient poet. At some point, Millay wrote "Renascence" while looking out from the summit of Mt. Battie in Camden, Maine (where a plaque now commemorates the writing of the poem). The poem may have been influenced by Millay's childhood experience of nearly drowning. Her mother, Cora Millay, saw an announcement for a poetry contest sponsored

neg: A Death-Scene comes the end of the poem. A Death-Scene "A Death-Scene" is a poem by English writer Emily Brontë. It was written on 2 December 1844 and published in 1846 in a book collecting poetry by Brontë and her siblings. The poem has been taken from the Penguin Classics Collection: 1. ‘O Day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly declining; 2. ‘He cannot leave thee now, While fresh west winds are blowing, And all around his youthful brow Thy cheerful light is glowing! 3. ‘Edward, awake, awake- The golden

neg: Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime "Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime" is an English poem written by Robert Burns. <poem style="margin-left:2em"> Why should we idly waste our prime Come rouse to arms! 'Tis now the time 'Tis said that Kings can do no wrong — And, since from us their power is sprung, Now each true patriot's song shall be: — Proud Priests and Bishops we'll translate The guillotine on Peers shall wait; Those Despots long have trode us down, Such wretched minions of a Crown To-day 'tis "theirs". To-morrow we The Golden Age we'll then revive:

neg: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (Handel) work and Edmund Bowles has written on Handel's use of timpani in the work. <poem>TENOR: From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began. When nature, underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head. The tuneful Voice, was heard from high, Arise! Arise! Arise ye more than dead! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap! And music's power obey! And music's power obey!</poem> <poem>CHORUS: From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began. Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.</poem>

neg: The Boxer He then finished the song with the last verse: "In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade..." "The Boxer" was originally written with a verse that is not present in the "Bridge over Troubled Water" version: <poem> Now the years are rolling by me— They are rockin' evenly. I am older than I once was, And younger than I'll be. That's not unusual; No, it isn't strange: After changes upon changes We are more or less the same; After changes we are more or less the same. </poem> This verse was performed by Simon & Garfunkel

neg: Prithviraja Vijaya Prithviraja Vijaya Prithviraja Vijaya (IAST: Pṛthvīrāja Vijaya, "Prithviraja's Victory") is an eulogistic Sanskrit epic poem on the life of the Indian Chahamana king Prithviraja III (better known as Prithviraj Chauhan in the vernacular folk legends). It is believed to have been composed around 1191-1192 CE by Jayanaka, a Kashmiri poet-historian in the court of Prithviraja. Some portions of the poem are now lost. Besides Prithviraja's biography, the poem also gives an account of his ancestors. The only known manuscript of "Prithviraja Vijaya" is a birch bark manuscript written in Sharada script. It was discovered by Georg Bühler in 1875, when

neg: Under Ben Bulben "Now And In A Time To Be". The title of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's first novel, "Horseman, Pass By," is derived from the last three lines of this poem. The same is true about the French writer Michel Déon's book "Horseman, Pass By!" Under Ben Bulben Under Ben Bulben is a poem written by celebrated Irish poet W. B. Yeats. It is believed to be one of the last poems he wrote, being drafted when he was 73, in August 1938 when his health was already poor (he died in January 1939). The phrase 'Mareotic Lake' is used by

neg: Ambri (poem) Ambri (poem) "Ambri" () (also commonly known as "Mother") is a punjabi language narrative poem by Anwar Masood. It was inspired by a real event that happened in 1950, in which teacher Anwar Masood himself had an incident in his class, when one of his students beat his mother to almost death, while he was appointed as a schoolmaster in the village near Kunjah. Written in a time span of a decade between 1962 and 1972 (by Anwar's own accounts). It was first published in 1974 in "Mela Akhiyan Da", and then a revised edition was published in 2007. It

neg: Naprej, zastava slave Naprej, zastava slave "" or "" () is the former national anthem of Slovenia, used from 1860 to 1989. It is now used as the official service song of the Slovenian Armed Forces. It tells about a boy who goes to defend his homeland, meaning him more than his mother or sweetheart. As such, it is a patriotic recruiting poem. It was the first Slovene literature to be translated into English. The lyrics were written originally by his cousin Simon Jenko and then improved collaboratively by both. The poem was first publicly sung with great success in front of a

neg: Unnuneeli Sandesam in the poem are not to be seen now. The poem is written under the pen-name Amruthanilakshi, and some believe that it was written in 1362 AD. The exact identity of the author remains a mystery, but it is widely believed that one of the members of the Vadakkumkur (Travancore) royal family) wrote it. An annotated version was published by DC Books. Unnuneeli Sandesam Unnuneeli Sandesam is among the oldest literary works in Malayalam language. It is a "sandesa kavyam" (message poem), a message written in poetry, on the lines of the famous "Meghadūta" of Kalidasa. In the case of

neg: Bande Utkala Janani Bande Utkala Janani Bande Utkala Janani () is an Odia patriotic poem written by Kantakabi Laxmikanta Mohapatra. When Odisha became a state on 1 April 1936, this poem was made the state song of Odisha. The poem envisages a Utkala who maintains her self-respect and dignity from a position of confidence and strength rather than insecurity and fear. This movement for a separate province also gathered momentum in Odisha. The Utkal Sammilani (a federation of Odias) was leading this movement. This influenced the poet Laxmikanta Mohapatra, who was then young and energetic. He started writing Bande Utkala Janani (Glory To

neg: A Greek–English Lexicon dictionary. It is also sometimes compared with the Bauer lexicon, which is a similar work focused on the Greek of the New Testament. Greek scholars use these books so much that two short memorable clerihews have been written to describe the seminal work: 1. <poem>Liddell and Scott, Liddell and Scott: Some of it's riddle, and some of it's rot. That which is riddle was written by Liddell, That which is rot was written by Scott.</poem> 2. <poem>Two men wrote a dictionary, Liddell and Scott, And one half was good, the other was not. Now tell me the answer, boys, quick,

neg: Kate Vannah how I write. I will read a little poem, perhaps, and then the melody comes, and, do you know, that particular melody is always thereafter connected with that poem. I might put the poem aside and not look at it again for a dozen years, but when I did, that same melody would leap into my mind at once. Vannah preferred the serious love ballad to any other style of song, but she was versatile and has written various melodies. Of her music, more was sold in her day than that of any other composer in the US, excepting Reginald

neg: John Taylor (poet) may daily see, More than the wherrys on the Thames can be. When Queen Elizabeth came to the crown, A coach in England then was scarcely known, Then 'twas as rare to see one, as to spy A Tradesman that had never told a lie.</poem> Taylor was also the first poet to mention the deaths of William Shakespeare and Francis Beaumont in print, in his 1620 poem, "The Praise of Hemp-seed". Both had died four years earlier. <poem>In paper, many a poet now survives Or else their lines had perish'd with their lives. Old Chaucer, Gower, and Sir Thomas More,

neg: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister speaker can finish, when he is interrupted by the bells proclaiming it is time for vespers. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is a soliloquy written by Robert Browning, first published in his collection "Dramatic Lyrics" (1842). It is written in the voice of an unnamed Spanish monk. The poem consists of nine eight-line stanzas and is written in trochaic tetrameter. The plot of the poem centers around the speaker's hatred for "Brother Lawrence", a fellow monk in the cloister. The speaker notes the trivial ways in which Brother Lawrence fails in his Christianity, and then

neg: Africa (Petrarch) event. He was given the titles of "poet," "master," "professor" of poetry and history and "the most famous private citizen then living." At the time of the coronation, the "Africa" consisted of just a few books (maybe four out of the nine written). Petrarch points out his work needed some final touches, because in the "Metrical Letter" at the coronation he wrote <poem> "The little book itself, now growing bold," "Burns with desire to run and cast itself" "Before those sacred feet," "and day and night," "pleads for release" </poem> Petrarch speaks of other famous poets in his "coronation oration"

neg: George Quarrie George Quarrie George Quarrie (c. 1846 – 1926) was a Manx poet active in the 1880s–1910s, best-known for his poem, "The Melliah." Quarrie was born at Ballavair, Kirk Bride, in around 1846, the eighth child of John Quarrie and Mary Hardie. By 1881 he was a General Commission Agent in Barrow-in-Furness, where he was married. It was when in England that Quarrie published "The Melliah", initially in 1880 and then in 1883. The poem recalls in Manx dialect the traditional Manx process and celebration of collecting in the harvest. This poem, written of a specific Melliah at the Ballavair farm

neg: Song Jiang circumstances on the way back to the imperial palace. The emperor then confers posthumous titles on Song Jiang and the Liangshan heroes to honour them for their loyalty. This is the seditious poem written by Song Jiang when he was drunk at Xunyang Tower in Jiangzhou. Song Jiang then read what he wrote, laughing hysterically. He consumed more drinks and started behaving wildly, clapping his hands and dancing with joy. He picked up the ink brush and wrote another four lines as follows: He then signed off at the end: "The work of Song Jiang from Yuncheng" (鄆城宋江作). The poem

neg: Now o now I needs must part Now o now I needs must part Now o Now I Needs Must Part was written by the sixteenth-seventeenth-century composer John Dowland. A bittersweet contemplation of love and loss, it was first published in Dowland's book called "First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes with Tableture for the Lute" (1597). <poem> Now, O now, I needs must part, Parting though I absent mourn. Absence can no joy impart: Joy once fled cannot return. While I live I needs must love, Love lives not when Hope is gone. Now at last Despair doth prove, Love divided loveth none. Sad

neg: The Gate of the Year The Gate of the Year "The Gate of the Year" is the popular name given to a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins. The title given to it by the author was "God Knows". She studied and then taught at the London School of Economics in the first half of the twentieth century. The poem, written in 1908 and privately published in 1912, was part of a collection titled "The Desert". It caught the public attention and the popular imagination when King George VI quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British Empire. The poem was brought to his

neg: Tamam Shud case before the war) and was unaware of any link between the dead man and himself. In the front of the copy of the "Rubaiyat" that was given to Boxall, Jessica Harkness (as she was at the time) had signed herself "JEstyn" and written out verse 70: <poem> Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore? And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My thread-bare Penitence a-pieces tore. </poem> There has been persistent speculation that the dead man was a spy, due to the circumstances and historical context of his death. One such theory concerns

neg: The Faerie Queene reality to interpreted events becomes more apparent when the events occurred nearer to the time when the poem was written. Throughout "The Faerie Queene", Spenser creates "a network of allusions to events, issues, and particular persons in England and Ireland" including Mary, Queen of Scots, the Spanish Armada, the English Reformation, and even the Queen herself. It is also known that James VI of Scotland read the poem, and was very insulted by Duessa – a very negative depiction of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. "The Faerie Queene" was then banned in Scotland. This led to a significant decrease

neg: Footprints (poem) and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you." The authorship of the poem is disputed, with a number of people claiming to have written it. In 2008, Rachel Aviv in a Poetry Foundation article discusses the claims of Burrell Webb, Mary Stevenson, Margaret Fishback Powers, and Carolyn Joyce Carty. Later that year, "The Washington Post", covering a lawsuit between the claims of Stevenson, Powers and Carty, said that "At least a dozen people" had claimed credit for the poem. The three authors who have most strenuously promoted their authorship are Margaret

neg: Cad Goddeu in the poem and also in several others attributed to Taliesin; culminating in a claim to have been at "Caer Vevenir" when the Lord of Britain did battle. There follows an account of a great monstrous beast, of the fear of the Britons and how, by Gwydion's skill and the grace of God, the trees marched to battle: then follows a list of plants, each with some outstanding attribute, now apt, now obscure; The poem then breaks into a first-person account of the birth of the flower-maiden Blodeuwedd, and then the history of another one, a great warrior, once a

neg: Lepanto (poem) context, the figure of Don John, "tiny and unafraid," was taken as representing England itself, a tiny nation standing against what then seemed to many Englishmen (and others) a vast hegemony of powerful, un-Christian states. Lepanto (poem) Lepanto is a poem by G.K. Chesterton celebrating the victory of the Holy League in the Battle of Lepanto written in irregular stanzas of rhyming, roughly paeonic tetrameter couplets, often ending in a quatrain of four dimeter lines. The poem tells of the defeat of the Ottoman fleet of Ali Pasha by the Christian crusader, Don John of Austria. The poem was written

neg: When You and I Were Young, Maggie When You and I Were Young, Maggie "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" is a famous folk song, popular song and standard. Though Springtown, Tennessee, has a small monument outside an old mill claiming the song was written by a local George Johnson, in 1864, for his Maggie, the truth is that its lyrics were written as a poem by the Canadian school teacher George Washington Johnson from Hamilton, Ontario. Margaret "Maggie" Clark was his pupil. They fell in love and during a period of illness, George walked to the edge of the Niagara escarpment, overlooking what is now

neg: The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) away? </poem> In his LP "Branduardi canta Yeats" (1986), Angelo Branduardi sings an Italian version of this poem. The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) "The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the "Little Review", and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections "The Wild Swans at Coole". It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, and

neg: Máj diary and his critiques. In 2008, Czech director F. A. Brabec made a movie, also called "Máj", based on the poem. Máj Máj (Czech for the month "May"; ) is a romantic poem by Karel Hynek Mácha in four cantos. It was fiercely criticized when first published, but since then has gained the status of one of the most prominent works of Czech literature; in the Czech Republic, the poem now is memorized by schoolchildren and continuously in print. According to the author's epilogue, the poem is a homage to the beauty of spring. It is set in a bucolic

neg: Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey stanzas. Categorising the poem is difficult, as it contains some elements of the ode and of the dramatic monologue. In the second edition of "Lyrical Ballads", Wordsworth noted: "I have not ventured to call this Poem an Ode but it was written with a hope that in the transitions, and the impassioned music of the versification, would be found the principle requisites of that species of composition." The apostrophe at its beginning is reminiscent of the 18th century landscape-poem, but it is now agreed that the best designation of the work would be the conversation poem, which is an organic

neg: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is a long poem in the form of an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) in 1865. The poem, written in free verse in 206 lines, uses many of the literary techniques associated with the pastoral elegy. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Despite the poem being an elegy to the fallen president, Whitman neither mentions Lincoln by name nor discusses

neg: The Witch of Atlas The Witch of Atlas The Witch of Atlas is a major poetic work of the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley written in 1820 and published posthumously in 1824 in the "Posthumous Poems" collection. The poem was written in 78 ottava rima stanzas during the period when "Prometheus Unbound" and "The Cloud" were written and reflects similar themes. The theme of the poem is a quest for the perfect union. British composer Sir Granville Bantock wrote a tone poem for orchestra based on the Shelley poem in 1902, "The Witch of Atlas: Tone Poem for Orchestra No.5 after Shelley", which

neg: Relationships that influenced Philip Larkin They first met in 1955 when he moved from Belfast to Hull, but it was in 1960, when Larkin coached her for a Library Association exam, that their relationship became meaningful and romantic. This happened despite Larkin's deep and by then long-standing relationship with Monica Jones. The emotional attachment between the two lasted for eighteen years. Larkin's longest poem, the unfinished "The Dance" was about an evening spent with Brennan. The poem "Broadcast" was also written about her. Like Larkin and Monica Jones, Maeve Brennan was buried in Cottingham Cemetery. Her grave is situated approximately 20 metres from that of

neg: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come since the beginning of time, but it was the one he could remember best. <poem> 1. Come, ye thankful people, come, 2. We ourselves are God's own field, 3. For the Lord our God shall come, 4. Then, thou Church triumphant come, </poem> "Lyrics in Public Domain" <poem> 2. All this world is God's own field, </poem> <poem> 3. For we know that thou wilt come, </poem> <poem> 4. Come then, Lord of mercy, come, </poem> Come, Ye Thankful People, Come "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" is an English Christian harvest festival hymn written in 1844 by Henry Alford. It

neg: Thorgerd Egilsdottir called for. After stating that “We’ve been tricked,” Thorgerd then manipulates Egil further; "What will we do now? Our plan has failed. Now I want us to stay alive, father, long enough for you to compose a poem in Bodvar’s memory and I will carve it on a rune-stick. Then we can die if we want to. I doubt whether your son Thorstein would ever compose a poem for Bodvar, and it is unseemly if his memory is not honoured, because I do not expect us to be sitting there at the feast when it is." Thorgerd Egilsdottir also makes

neg: Sonnet 25 of hopes, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. (III.ii.352-358) </poem> Ironically, this passage is now widely (though not universally) held to have been written by John Fletcher. In Sonnet 25 may allude to Essex's Rebellion. In "Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets" (1961), James Blair Leishman criticised preceding approaches to Shakespeare's sonnets, feeling they either excessively focussed on the identity of "W.H.", the Fair

neg: Ananda Thuriya be presented to the king, titled "The Law of Nature", which was written only a few minutes before his execution. Sithu II pardoned the minister immediately after having read the poem. But it was too late: he was informed that the old minister had already been executed. Chronicles say that the king sobbed uncontrollably before everyone, and was filled with regret, reminiscing how he was raised by the late minister. The king now decreed that his death sentences from then on were to be carried out only after a cooling-off period of a month. "The Law of Nature" was written

neg: Croton oil croton nuts. In "The Bulletin" (9 Dowry Square, Hot Wells, May 29, 1845) by the Reverend Richard Harris Barham, a medically inspired poem to relieve the anxiety of a very dear friend, and written a month before Barham's death on June 17, 1845, the attending doctor to his patient advises amongst other treatments for a sore throat that is producing barely a sound: "... Please put out your tongue again!/Now the blister!/Ay, the blister!/ Let your son, or else his sister,/Warm it well, then clap it here, sir,/All across from ear to ear, sir;/That suffices,/When it rises,/Snip it, sir, and

neg: William Roscoe in the Unitarian Grave Yard at Mount Pleasant of which his headstone is the only one remaining. His poem, "Mount Pleasant", was written when he was sixteen, and together with other verses, now forgotten, won the esteem of good critics. He wrote a long poem published in two parts called "The Wrongs of Africa" (1787–1788), and entered into a controversy with an ex-Roman Catholic priest called Fr Raymond Harris, who tried to justify the slave trade through the Bible (and was generously paid for his efforts by Liverpool businessmen involved with the slave trade). Roscoe also wrote a pamphlet in

neg: Akatombo Akatombo The poem is written in the voice of someone recalling his infancy and being carried on the back of his sister (or nursemaid; the Japanese lyrics are ambiguous). The speaker now longs for this mother figure, who married at the age of 15, moved far away, and no longer sends news back to the speaker's village. Symbolist poet Rofū Miki (1889–1964), who wrote the poem in 1921, had a similar background. His mother had been married at the age of 15. His parents divorced when Miki was five years old, and his mother moved away, never to return. He

neg: The Suicide's Soliloquy The Suicide's Soliloquy The Suicide's Soliloquy is an unsigned poem, possibly written by Abraham Lincoln, first published on August 25, 1838, in "The Sangamo Journal", a four-page Whig newspaper in Springfield, Illinois. News of the poem first arose shortly after Lincoln's assassination when one of Lincoln's personal friends, Joshua Speed, told William Herndon, Lincoln's biographer, that Lincoln had written a poem about suicide. The poem proved to be impossible to track down until 2004, when Richard Miller, an independent writer discovered the supposed poem. Although the poem seems to follow the same themes and style as Lincoln's other works, there

neg: In Zaltsikn Yam justice is done The world will be freed and be healed by this hero, Who dives to the root of its wound. In Russia, in Vilna, in Poland all hail now The Great Jewish Worker’s Bund! In Zaltsikn Yam In Zaltsikn Yam (In the Salty Sea, ) also known as In Zaltsikn Yam Fun Di Mentshleche Trern (In the Salty Sea of Human Tears, ), or Tsum Bund: In Zaltsikn Yam Fun Di Mentshleche Trern is a Yiddish poem written by S. Ansky in 1901, that became a popular Yiddish song when music was added to it. The poem and

neg: Now o now I needs must part do to part with you. Him despair doth cause to lie, Who both lived and died true. </poem> Now o now I needs must part Now o Now I Needs Must Part was written by the sixteenth-seventeenth-century composer John Dowland. A bittersweet contemplation of love and loss, it was first published in Dowland's book called "First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes with Tableture for the Lute" (1597). <poem> Now, O now, I needs must part, Parting though I absent mourn. Absence can no joy impart: Joy once fled cannot return. While I live I needs must love,

neg: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal London, "The Crimson Petal and the White", published in 2002. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" is a sonnet poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was first published in 1847, in "The Princess: A Medley". The poem has been set to music several times, including settings by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter, Ned Rorem, Mychael Danna and Paul Mealor. It also appeared as a song in the 2004 film "Vanity Fair" (based on Thackeray's novel from 1848), sung by the character Becky Sharp. Writer and poet Oscar Wilde included a reference to Tennyson's poem in the last

neg: Sylvia Plath told Plath he wished that she was dead. The letters were sent to Dr. Ruth Barnhouse (then Dr. Ruth Beuscher). Plath's voice is heard in the BBC documentary about her life. Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed Plath in the biopic "Sylvia" (2003). Frieda Hughes, now a poet and painter, who was two years old when her mother died, was angered by the making of entertainment featuring her parents' lives. She accused the "peanut crunching" public of wanting to be titillated by the family's tragedies. In 2003, Frieda reacted to the situation in the poem "My Mother" in "Tatler": <poem> Now they want

neg: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" is a sonnet poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was first published in 1847, in "The Princess: A Medley". The poem has been set to music several times, including settings by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter, Ned Rorem, Mychael Danna and Paul Mealor. It also appeared as a song in the 2004 film "Vanity Fair" (based on Thackeray's novel from 1848), sung by the character Becky Sharp. Writer and poet Oscar Wilde included a reference to Tennyson's poem in the last paragraph of his essay "The Decay of Lying": "The final

neg: Spain (Auden) Spain (Auden) Spain is a poem by W. H. Auden written after his visit to the Spanish Civil War. "Spain" was described by George Orwell as "one of the few decent things that have been written about the Spanish war". It was written and published in 1937. Auden donated all the profits from the sale of "Spain" to the Spanish Medical Aid Committee. Auden published two versions of the poem, first as a pamphlet "Spain" (1937), then, in revised form and titled "Spain 1937", in his book "Another Time" (1940). He later rejected the poem from his collected editions, regarding

neg: The Raven summer of 1844, when the poem was likely written, Poe, his wife, and mother-in-law were boarding at the farmhouse of Patrick Brennan. The location of the house, which was demolished in 1888, has been a disputed point and, while there are two different plaques marking its supposed location on West 84th Street, it most likely stood where 206 West 84th Street is now. In part due to its dual printing, "The Raven" made Edgar Allan Poe a household name almost immediately, and turned Poe into a national celebrity. Readers began to identify poem with poet, earning Poe the nickname "The

neg: The Legend of Novgorode today. Frédéric Sauser would have written this poem in 1908, just after the death of a girl he loved when he lived in St. Petersburg, since 1905. The Legend of Novgorode "The Legend of Novgorode" was the first poem of Blaise Cendrars published in 1907. This text was considered for a long time as lost, or as a product of his author's imagination, until in 1995, a copy was discovered by chance in a Bulgar bookshop. After a raging controversy, this copy is now mostly considered as a fraud, with a very good impersonation of Cendrars' (signing at that time

neg: Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey he reached Bristol, by which time it had just reached mental completion. Although the "Lyrical Ballads" upon which the two friends had been working was by then already in publication, he was so pleased with what he had just written that he had it inserted at the eleventh hour as the concluding poem. Scholars generally agree that it is apt, for the poem represents the climax of Wordsworth's first great period of creative output and prefigures much of the distinctively Wordsworthian verse that was to follow. The poem is written in tightly-structured decasyllabic blank verse and comprises verse-paragraphs rather than

neg: The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) "The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the "Little Review", and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections "The Wild Swans at Coole". It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, and the assembled collection was dedicated to her son, Major Robert Gregory (1881–1918), a British airman lost during a

neg: Pangur Bán Pangur Bán "" is an Old Irish poem, written about the 9th century at or around Reichenau Abbey. It was written by an Irish monk, and is about his cat. , 'White Pangur', is the cat's name, meaning 'a fuller'. Although the poem is anonymous, it bears similarities to the poetry of Sedulius Scottus, prompting speculation that Sedulius is the author. In eight verses of four lines each, the author compares the cat's happy hunting with his own scholarly pursuits. The poem is preserved in the "Reichenau Primer" (Stift St. Paul Cod. 86b/1 fol 1v) and now kept in St.

neg: Greenfield, Greater Manchester dating from the end of the 18th century and being a Thomas Telford project. The world's first rock climbers' sit harness was invented in Saddleworth in the 1970s, variations of it now forming the basis of almost all the world's climbing sit harnesses. The poem "Jone o Grinfilt" was written about a fictional inhabitant of the village with the aim of ridiculing countryside dwellers. The poem was written in the Oldham dialect of English, and was very popular in the 19th century. The author was probably Joseph Lees of Glodwick and it was written in the first decade of the

neg: Khalsa Bahadur in the Northwest Frontier Province. It then tells the narrative of the Battle of Saragarhi and ends by describing monuments erected in their honor at Saragarhi, Amritsar, and Firozpur. Khalsa Bahadur Khalsa Bahadur is an epic poem written by Chuhar Singh describing the chivalry and sacrifice of Sikh soldiers at the Battle of Saragarhi. The poem is 55 pages long, written using the "baint" verse form, and written in the Punjabi language. It was completed on November 13, 1915 at Ballial in the Patiala district of Punjab (India) using information from Sikh soldiers on leave. The poem begins with a

neg: Three Fishers on their self-titled 2010 release, but each giving their own rendering. The village museum in Clovelly, where Kingsley was inspired to write the poem, features a life-sized model of Kingsley sitting at a desk writing the poem. When visitors enter the room, a motion sensor triggers a voice recording of the poem, read by actor and village resident Joss Ackland. Three Fishers "Three Fishers" is a poem and a ballad written in 1851. The original poem was written by English poet, novelist and preacher, Charles Kingsley. It was first set to music by English composer John Hullah shortly thereafter. Robert

neg: Iroha the Latin alphabet. The first appearance of the Iroha, in was in seven lines: six with seven morae each, and one with five. It was also written in man'yōgana. <poem> 以呂波耳本部止 千利奴流乎和加 餘多連曽津祢那 良牟有為能於久 耶万計不己衣天 阿佐伎喩女美之 恵比毛勢須 </poem> Structurally, however, the poem follows the standard 7–5 pattern of Japanese poetry (with one hypometric line), and in modern times it is generally written that way, in contexts where line breaks are used. The text of the poem in hiragana (with archaic and but without voiced consonant marks) is: Note that archaic hiragana uses and , which are now only used in

neg: A Death-Scene A Death-Scene "A Death-Scene" is a poem by English writer Emily Brontë. It was written on 2 December 1844 and published in 1846 in a book collecting poetry by Brontë and her siblings. The poem has been taken from the Penguin Classics Collection: 1. ‘O Day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly declining; 2. ‘He cannot leave thee now, While fresh west winds are blowing, And all around his youthful brow Thy cheerful light is glowing! 3. ‘Edward, awake, awake- The golden evening gleams Warm and bright on

neg: To Mrs Siddons if it was originally written by him and edited by Coleridge. When the poem was printed in Coleridge's 1796 collection of poems, it is attributed to Lamb. When the poem was to be printed in Coleridge's 1803 edition of poems, Lamb did not claim ownership of the poem. The poem was edited by someone between its various printings but with few changes. The poem was also not included in Lamb's 1798 or 1818 collections of poems, but Coleridge did not include the poem in any of his later collections of poems. Although the true authorship is unknown, it is possible

neg: GMA Canada recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys, Phillips, Craig and Dean, VeggieTales and many others. The hymn "My Jesus I Love Thee" was written as a poem by William Ralph Featherston in 1864 when he was 16 years old. Featherston was from Montreal, Quebec and was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Montreal (later renamed St. James Methodist Church, then St. James United Church). He died in 1873. Music was added to the poem after Featherton's death in 1876 by Adoniram Gordon. The song has been recorded by hundreds of artists including The Wiebes, Paul Baloche, Amy Grant, Avalon,

neg: Brielle the conflict, as many towns in Holland then began to support William of Orange against the Spanish Duke Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba who was sent to pacify The Netherlands. This event is still celebrated each year on April 1 and the night before (known as Chalk Night (kalknacht) when the city is defaced with chalk - and now also white paint). Dutch students are taught a short rhyme to remember this fact, which rhyme refers to April Fools' Day: <poem>"Op 1 april verloor Alva zijn bril." "Op April zes verloor Alva zijn fles" </poem> <poem>"On April

neg: A Visit from St. Nicholas concludes that Livingston is the true author of the classic work. Notes Further reading A Visit from St. Nicholas "A Visit from St. Nicholas", more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837. Some commentators now believe the poem was written by Henry Livingston Jr.. The poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus

neg: A Visit from St. Nicholas A Visit from St. Nicholas "A Visit from St. Nicholas", more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837. Some commentators now believe the poem was written by Henry Livingston Jr.. The poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. It has had a massive impact on the

neg: I am Going to the Lordy President James Garfield, Guiteau announced, after famously dancing his way to the gallows, that he would read a poem that he had written. Guiteau said that he had written the poem, which was entitled "I am Going to the Lordy", at about 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time that day. After "stubbing his toe on the way to the gallows", as he put it to the executioner, Guiteau read and announced that he would now read a prayer of his own composition. After paraphrasing , Guiteau proceeded to read the poem from a piece of paper in a style described as

neg: When I Was One-and-Twenty group performance by the German folk group, Black Eye. This poem was written when Housman was a young man, just like many of his other poems. Many of his poems are told in the first person; therefore, one can only assume that this particular poem was written out of an experience Housman himself had gone through. The particular poem demonstrates the vivacity of a vulnerable youth falling for love: “But I was one-and-twenty, no use talking to me” (7-8). The youth intentionally proceeds to fall in the pits of love, knowing what could become of it. He is even acknowledging

neg: Exile of Ovid the poet to link the work with the year 4 AD, when Tiberius was adopted by Augustus and therefore implicitly named his successor. Ovid may then have lost his enthusiasm for the Julian dynasty and transferred his support to the lineage of Claudius, leaving unfinished the poem he was meditating. Ovid made banishment the subject of his last three major works of poetry: the "Ibis", a "venomous attack on an unnamed enemy", and the two collections of literary epistles, "Tristia" and "Epistulae ex Ponto". The "Ibis", an elegiac curse poem attacking an adversary at home, was written during the journey

neg: Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep the Lord my soul to keep. Guide me through the starry night, Wake me when the sun shines bright." Amen" </poem> <poem> Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. Guide me safely through the night, Wake me with the morning light." Amen" </poem> <poem> Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. When in the morning light I wake, Show me the path of love to take. Amen </poem> <poem> If I should live another day I pray the Lord to guide my way. Amen