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The speaker of the poem is arguably separated from her lover and/or husband, Wulf, both symbolically and materially ('Wulf is on iege, ic on oþerre' [Wulf is on an island, I on another]), and this separation is seemingly maintained by threat of violence ('willað hy hine aþecgan' [they will want to ?seize him]), possibly by her own people ('Leodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife' [it is to ...
60 Classic Australian Poems is an anthology of poems edited by Australian writer Geoff Page, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2008. [ 1 ] The collection contains 60 poems from a variety of sources, along with a commentary on each from the editor.
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.
Poems referring to the Period of Old Age. 1800 A Character 1800 "I marvel how Nature could ever find space" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. 1800 For the Spot where the Hermitage stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater 1800 "If thou in the dear love of some one Friend" Inscriptions (1) 1800
Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full:
The Wandering Islands (1955) is the first poetry collection by Australian poet A. D. Hope.It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1955. [1]The collection consists of 39 poems, most are published in this collection for the first time and others are reprinted from various Australian poetry publications.
On This Island is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, first published under the title Look, Stranger! in the UK in 1936, then published under Auden's preferred title, On this Island, in the US in 1937. It is also the title of one of the poems in the collection. The book contains thirty-one poems.
The islands at the mouth of the Hunter River at Newcastle, NSW, were once in the 1840s a naturalist’s paradise, where artists, scientists and collectors visited.The explorer Ludwig Leichhardt stated in 1842 that Ash/Muscheto island "is a remarkably fine place, not only to enjoy the beauty of nature, a broad shining river, a luxuriant vegetation, a tasteful comfortable cottage with a ...