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The four characters on the banner above his head reads, "return my rivers and mountains", one of the themes espoused in his poem. Man Jiang Hong ( Chinese : 滿江紅 ; pinyin : Mǎn Jīang Hóng ; lit. 'the whole river red') is the title of a set of Chinese lyrical poems ( ci ) sharing the same pattern.
Valley Candle" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It is in the public domain according to Librivox, having been first published prior to the 1923 publication year of Harmonium .
"The Fire at Ross's Farm" (1890) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson. [ 1 ] It was originally published in The Bulletin on 6 December 1890 and subsequently reprinted in several of the author's other collections, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
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.
Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]
The opening stanzas evoke the poet gazing into the fire imagining a primeval forest older than myth, "before the fauns". But his traumatic experiences on the Western Front intrude on his somewhat romantic meditation: "Wrote a poem on the Colliery Disaster: but I get mixed up with the War at the end. It is short, but oh! sour."
and quaking thunder. The rain fell cold. and sideways for three days. All the creeks. conspired to the raging river. As the flood seeped beneath our door. my mother sat me on her hip. She carried ...
The poem is used by: Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929). George Orwell in ch. 21 of his novel Burmese Days (1934). Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves (1931). Wilbur Daniel Steele in his short story How Beautiful with Shoes. Madeleine L'Engle in her novel The Small Rain (1945). Louis Zukofsky includes the poem in A Test ...