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Imogen in her bedchamber in Act II, scene ii, when Iachimo witnesses the mole under her breast. Painting by Wilhelm Ferdinand Souchon, 1872. Cymbeline (/ ˈ s ɪ m b ɪ l iː n /), also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (c. 10–14 AD) [a] and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain ...
A Shropshire Lad at Wikisource. A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers.
Never ask me whose. —Stanzas 1-2, 5-8 [1] "Is My Team Ploughing" is a poem by A. E. Housman, published as number XXVII in his 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. It is a conversation between a dead man and his still living friend. Toward the end of the poem it is implied that the friend is now with the girl left behind when the narrator died.
"All in the golden afternoon" is the preface poem in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The introductory poem recalls the afternoon that he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland while on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters: Lorina Charlotte (the flashing "Prima"), Alice Pleasance (the hoping "Secunda"), and Edith ...
It is especially remembered for its two final lines: "The silver apples of the moon,/ The golden apples of the sun." The poem is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantastical experience in which a silver trout he had caught and laid on the floor turned into a "glimmering girl" who called him by his ...
Joan Vassos’s first week of Golden Bachelorette dates brought tears, kisses and cannonballs. At the beginning of the Sept. 25 episode, Joan’s 18 remaining suitors moved into Bachelor Mansion ...
The Girls of Llanbadarn. An anonymous 19th century imaginary portrait of Dafydd ap Gwilym. " The Girls of Llanbadarn ", or " The Ladies of Llanbadarn " ( Welsh: Merched Llanbadarn ), is a short, wryly humorous poem [1] by the 14th-century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, in which he mocks his own lack of success with the girls of his neighbourhood.
Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad. Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad is a song cycle for baritone and piano composed in 1911 by George Butterworth (1885–1916). It consists of settings of six poems from A. E. Housman 's 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad. Butterworth set another five poems from A Shropshire Lad in Bredon Hill and Other Songs (1912).