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The poem's opening lines are renowned for their evocation of patriotic nostalgia: [3] Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there Browning makes sentimental references to the flora of an English springtime , including brushwood , elm trees and pear tree blossom and to the sound of birdsong from chaffinches , whitethroats , swallows and ...
The poem was also put to music by English folk singer and Kipling Society Fellow Peter Bellamy. German's setting was for baritone voice with piano accompaniment, and published by Cramer in 1911. Elgar set the poem to music late in World War I , with the permission of Kipling, and it was published in "The Teacher's World" , June 19, 1918.
Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660–1810 is a volume featuring more than 400 poems or poetic fragments by 250 Anglophone writers, edited by James Basker. [1]
The poem rambles aimlessly through six pages about America's past, present, and future before turning to its most famous section: a "call" supposedly sent by "our Great Fate" to the future of America. The call begins as follows: "Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their purpose / And new ...
Madoc is an 1805 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. It is based on the legend of Madoc, a supposed Welsh prince who fled internecine conflict and sailed to America in the 12th century. The origins of the poem can be traced to Southey's schoolboy days when he completed a prose version of Madoc's story.
"The Rising Glory of America" is a poem written by "Poet of the Revolution" Philip Freneau with a debated but likely minimal level of involvement from "not quite a Founding Father" Hugh Henry Brackenridge of western Pennsylvania. The poem was first read at their graduation from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1771.
Griffitts is best known for a series of scathing satires that celebrate the American colonists' opposition to Britain in the decades before the American Revolution. [4] For example, she wrote several proto-feminist poems about the Daughters of Liberty, a group of women active in protesting British policies in the Thirteen Colonies.
According to Selth, Mandalay had a significant impact on popular Western perception of Burma and the far East. It was well known in Britain, America, and the English-speaking colonies of the British Empire. The poem was widely adapted and imitated in verse and in music, and the musical settings appeared in several films.