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  2. Prayer of Columbus - Wikipedia

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    Prayer of Columbus" is a poem written by American poet Walt Whitman. The poem evokes the enterprising spirit of Christopher Columbus in a God -fearing light, who rediscovered the North American continent in 1492, leading to the colonization of the Americas by the emerging European powers.

  3. Alphabet (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    "Alphabet" is a book-length poem following the tradition of Abecedarian poems, in which each line begins with the next letter of the alphabet sequentially from A through Z. Each of the poem's fourteen sections [3] of the poem is tied to a letter of the alphabet and the number of lines found in each section is dictated by the Fibonacci sequence ...

  4. Hymn Before Sunrise - Wikipedia

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    During 1802, Coleridge wrote the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, which he based on his translation of a poem by Brun.However, Coleridge told William Southeby another story about what inspired him to write the poem [1] in a 10 September 1802 letter: "I involuntarily poured forth a Hymn in the manner of the Psalms, tho' afterwards I thought the Ideas &c disproportionate to our humble mountains ...

  5. Let Us Be Like the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Let Us Be Like the Sun is the sixth book of poetry by Konstantin Balmont, first published in 1903 by Scorpion in Moscow. [1]For an epigraph, Balmont has chosen the words of Anaxagoras: "I entered this world to see the Sun." [2]: 578 The book came out with a dedication to Valery Bryusov, Sergey Poliakov, Yurgis Baltrushaitis and Lucy Savitskaya.

  6. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free - Wikipedia

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    Note 2] In the early 1920s, two early letters from Annette that had been impounded during the Napoleonic wars were discovered in the departmental archives of Loir-et-Cher. [8] Other than a later 1834 letter, these are the only letters from Annette that survive (while letters from Wordsworth and Dorothy are lost). [ 9 ]

  7. Hyperion (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Hyperion, a Fragment is an abandoned epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats. It was published in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). [1] It is based on the Titanomachia, and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians. Keats wrote the poem from late 1818 until the spring of ...

  8. Christ II - Wikipedia

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    Christ II, also called The Ascension, is one of Cynewulf's four signed poems that exist in the Old English vernacular. It is a five-section piece that spans lines 440–866 of the Christ triad in the Exeter Book (folios 14a-20b), and is homiletic in its subject matter in contrast to the martyrological nature of Juliana, Elene, and Fates of the Apostles.

  9. Sunlight on a Broken Column - Wikipedia

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    First edition (publ. Chatto & Windus) Sunlight on a Broken Column is a novel by Attia Hosain, which was published in 1961. [1] The novel, mainly set in Lucknow, is an autobiographical account by a fictional character called Laila, who is a 15-year-old orphaned daughter of a rich Muslim family of Taluqdars.