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In writing this poem, Frost was inspired by his childhood experience with swinging on birches, which was a popular game for children in rural areas of New England during the time. Frost's own children were avid "birch swingers", as demonstrated by a selection from his daughter Lesley's journal: "On the way home, i climbed up a high birch and ...
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor , "The Star". [ 1 ] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery , a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann .
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
A Treatise on Stars is a 2020 poetry collection by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, published by New Directions Publishing. [1] Her fourteenth book of poems, it was nominated for several awards and won the Bollingen Prize in 2021.
New Hampshire is a 1923 poetry collection by Robert Frost, which won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [1]The book included several of Frost's most well-known poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", [2] "Nothing Gold Can Stay" [3] and "Fire and Ice". [4]
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" is a poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats.It was first printed in 1897 in British magazine The Sketch under the title "A Mad Song." [1] It was then published under its standard name in Yeats' 1899 anthology The Wind Among the Reeds. [1]
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Thomas Miller (31 August 1807 – 24 October 1874) was an English poet and novelist who explored rural subjects. He was one of the most prolific English working-class writers of the 19th century and produced in all over 45 volumes, [1] including some "penny dreadfuls" on urban crime.