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At the age of thirty-seven, she published her first book, The Religion of Humanity and Other Poems (1890). In 1899, Matheson published Selected Poems Old and New as a compilation of popular shorter poems. [6] Many preceding publications encompassed her strong faith and the beauty of God's nature.
Johnson recognizes 1775 poems, and Franklin 1789; however each, in a handful of cases, categorizes as multiple poems lines which the other categorizes as a single poem. This mutual splitting results in a table of 1799 rows. Columns. First Line: Most of the first lines link to the poem's text (usually its first publication) at Wikisource.
[13] In her article "The Language of Nature in the Poetry of Mary Oliver", Diane S. Bond writes, "few feminists have wholeheartedly appreciated Oliver's work, and though some critics have read her poems as revolutionary reconstructions of the female subject, others remain skeptical that identification with nature can empower women."
Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong.Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength.
At an early age, Chiyo-ni was introduced to art and poetry, and she began writing haiku poetry at the age of seven. By the age of seventeen, she had become very popular all over Japan for her poetry. Her poems, although mostly dealing with nature , work for a unity of nature with humanity.
Most of her poems appeared over the name "Lucie C. Gilson". Her poems show a deep insight into nature, and the experiences of the human heart. Many of them are religious in sentiment, and all have a high moral tone. Some evince poetic merit, and, as a collection, they would make an interesting, fair-sized, volume.
The poems of love are also poems of nature: "we went to the orchard to pick cherries". The lyricism of love mingles with the lyricism of nature without them being confused. It is not unhappy love that Hugo sings about, but on the contrary love as a source of plenitude, of happiness for two and of communion with nature.
Her writings were characterized by fluency, grace and quiet reflection on nature, domestic and religious life, and philanthropic questions; but they were also often sentimental, didactic and commonplace. Some of her blank verse and pictures of nature suggest Bryant. Among her most successful poems are 'Niagara' [20] and 'Indian Names