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A nineteenth-century depiction of a headache by George Cruikshank. On His Heid-Ake, also referred to as The Headache and My Heid Did Yak Yesternicht, is a brief poem in Scots by William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460) composed at an unknown date. The poem describes Dunbar's experience of a severe headache which he refers to as a "magryme".
The poem is also included in the syllabus for the Grade IX (SSC-1) FBISE examinations, Pakistan and the Grade X ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) examinations, India. V. S. Naipaul , who grew up in Trinidad when it was a British colony, mentions a "campaign against Wordsworth" in the island, which he did not agree with.
I only tell of sunny hours. I count only sunny hours. The clouds shall pass and the sun will shine on us once more. Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours. Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only count your sunny hours. Has date of 1767; Life is but a shadow: the shadow of a bird on the wing.
Sunday Morning" is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium. Published in part in the November 1915 issue of Poetry , then in full in 1923 in Harmonium , it is now in the public domain.
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. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God!
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 ...
The poem contrasts transformations in both the intangible, interior world and the exterior world in order to show the relationship between them. [12] It is indeterminate whether the speaker's despair is inspired by the landscape or whether the ominous appearance of the landscape is a projection of the speaker's despair.
It has been claimed that the poem's story is based on the Irish god Aengus, and specifically the story of the "Dream of Aengus", which had first appeared in the 8th century, in which Aengus falls in love with a woman whom he sees only in his dreams. [5] The poem has also been compared to the aisling genre of Irish poetry, in which a magical ...