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  2. Casey at the Bat - Wikipedia

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    Casey at the Bat. "Casey at the Bat" as it first appeared, June 3, 1888. " Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 " is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based ...

  3. The Echoing Green - Wikipedia

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    The Echoing Green. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Y, 1825 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) object 6 (The Echoing Green 1) " The Echoing Green " (The Ecchoing Green) is a poem by William Blake published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. The poem talks about merry sounds and images which accompany the children playing outdoors.

  4. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  5. The Weary Blues - Wikipedia

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    The rest of the poem builds and builds until its end. The music in “The Weary Blues” is a metaphor for life as a black man. The color in the poem is symbolic of the black struggle. It starts with slave spirituals in which "slaves calculatingly created songs of double-entendre as an intellectual strategy", [6] as Hughes does in his poem ...

  6. The Little Boy Found - Wikipedia

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    The Little Boy Found. " The Little Boy Found " is a poem by William Blake first published in the collection Songs of Innocence in 1789. Songs of Innocence was printed using illuminated printing, a style Blake created. By integrating the images with the poems the reader was better able to understand the meaning behind each of Blake's poems.

  7. A Cradle Song - Wikipedia

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    Analysis. A key theme in “A Cradle Song” is the mother's love for her child. The mother uses the word “sweet” ten times in the poem. She makes the infant seem angelic by the way she describes the child. The mother claims her child is “dovelike”, using the dove as a symbol for holiness and love. The woman ties the spiritual world to ...

  8. Kubla Khan - Wikipedia

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    Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ ˌkʊblə ˈkɑːn /) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium -influenced ...

  9. The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams) - Wikipedia

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    The Lark Ascending is a short, single-movement work by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, inspired by the 1881 poem of the same name by the English writer George Meredith. It was originally for violin and piano, completed in 1914, but not performed until 1920. The composer reworked it for solo violin and orchestra after the First ...