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"They flee from me" is a poem written by Thomas Wyatt. [1] It is written in rhyme royal and was included in Arthur Quiller-Couch 's edition of the Oxford Book of English Verse . [ 2 ] The poem has been described as possibly autobiographical , and referring to any one of Wyatt's affairs with high-born women of the court of Henry VIII , perhaps ...
It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England. God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour As one man more methinks would share from me For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one ...
The song bears a resemblance to, and is perhaps influenced by, the W. H. Auden poem As I Walked Out One Evening, including sharing the same iambic meter and quatrain form. [6] The first line also bears resemblance to the folk song Lolly Tudum , which begins "as I went out one morning to breathe the pleasant air", popularized in the New York ...
"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
American humorist Garrison Keillor wrote a variation of the poem for the Introduction to his The Book of Guys (1993), which suggested that Cory's wife was the reason he killed himself. [ 7 ] The character Ben Nicholson, played by Paul Lambert misquotes the poem in the episode "The Case of the Envious Editor" of the CBS television series Perry ...
To a Butterfly (first poem) 1802, 14 March "Stay near me---do not take thy flight!" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. 1807 The Emigrant Mother 1802, 16 and 17 March "Once in a lonely hamlet I sojourned" Poems founded on the Affection 1807 My heart leaps up when I behold: 1802, 26 March "My heart leaps up when I behold"
However, the ballads were not published with any music, and though they were quickly adapted to be sung, new musical settings were written; a musical setting by Walter Damrosch was described as "Teddy Roosevelt's favourite song", and is sometimes encountered on its own as a tune entitled They're Hanging Danny Deever in the Morning. To date, at ...