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  2. The Whitsun Weddings - Wikipedia

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    The Whitsun Weddings. The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, with the first 4,000 copies being sold within two months. A United States edition appeared some seven months later.

  3. The Whitsun Weddings (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem's narrator describes the scenery and smells of the countryside and towns through which the largely empty train passes. The train's windows are open because of the heat, and he gradually becomes aware of bustle on the platforms at each station, eventually realising that this is the noise and actions of wedding parties that are seeing ...

  4. Patience Strong - Wikipedia

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    Patience Strong. Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong. Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength. She was also a successful lyricist, composing English words for the ...

  5. Desiderata - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Indian Wedding Blessing - Wikipedia

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    The poem was originally written in 1947 by the non-Native author Elliott Arnold in his Western novel Blood Brother. The novel features Apache culture, but the poem itself is an invention of the author's, and is not based on any traditions of the Apache, Cherokee or any other Native American culture. [3] The poem was popularized by the 1950 film ...

  7. Song of the Bell - Wikipedia

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    The " Song of the Bell " (German: "Das Lied von der Glocke", also translated as " The Lay of the Bell ") is a poem that the German poet Friedrich Schiller published in 1798. It is one of the most famous poems of German literature and with 430 lines one of Schiller's longest. In it, Schiller combines a knowledgeable technical description of a ...

  8. Havisham - Wikipedia

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    Havisham. " Havisham " is a poem written in 1993 by Carol Ann Duffy. It responds to Miss Havisham, a character in Charles Dickens ' novel Great Expectations, looking at her mental and physical state many decades after being left standing at the altar, when the bride-to-be is in her old age. [1] It expresses Havisham's anger at her fiancé and ...

  9. Time's Paces - Wikipedia

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    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 ...