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John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...
The life of a western rover. Oh! often upon the Texas plains, When the day and the chase were over, My thoughts would fly o'er the weary wave, And around this coastline hover; And the prayer would rise that some future day-All danger and doubting scorning— I'd help to win for my native land The light of young Liberty's morning!
Phyllis McGinley (March 21, 1905 – February 22, 1978) was an American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
“Another world, another day, another dawn. The early morning’s thinnest sliver of light appeared silently.” ― Douglas Adams “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of ...
The poem was written in 1880 by Roberts before she had met Elgar, though they were married in the year after the song was written. Roberts offered the poem to Edward when they were engaged, and such was the quality of the work that he put into it—the independent brilliant piano part, the voice in turn subtle and heroic—that it won the first prize of £5 in a competition organised by the ...
This does not account for the handful of poems published during Emily Dickinson's lifetime, nor poems which first appeared within published letters. 1stS.P: Section and Poem number (both converted to Arabic numerals, and separated by a period) of the poem in its 1st publication as noted above. Poems in the volumes of 1929 and 1935 are not ...
Demain dès l'aube (English: Tomorrow at dawn) is one of French writer Victor Hugo's most famous poems. It was published in his 1856 collection Les Contemplations. It consists of three quatrains of rhyming alexandrines. The poem describes a visit to his daughter Léopoldine Hugo's grave four years after her death. [1]
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