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"A Forest Hymn" is an 1824 poem written by William Cullen Bryant, [1] which has been called one of Bryant's best poems, [2] and "one of the best nature poems of that age". [3] It was first published in Boston in the United States Literary Gazette along with several other poems written by Bryant.
The subtitle "(War Time)" of the poem, which appears in the Flame and Shadow version of the text, is a reference to Teasdale's poem "Spring In War Time" that was published in Rivers to the Sea about three years earlier. "There Will Come Soft Rains" addresses four questions related to mankind's suffering caused by the devastation of World War I ...
The beginning of the poem discusses time and winter, with attention paid to the arrival of summer. The images of snow, which provoke desires for a spiritual life, transition into an analysis of the four classical elements of fire, earth, air and water and how fire is the primary element of the four. Following this is a discussion on death and ...
One of America’s most beloved poets, known for her accessible poems focused on nature’s smallest moments, Mary Oliver was a wash-ashore who felt at home on the Cape, living in Provincetown for ...
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...
Fire and Ice; The Aim Was Song [2] The Need of Being Versed in Country Things; The Moon; I Will Sing You One; Paul's Wife; For Once, Then, Something; The Onset; Two Look at Two; Nothing Gold Can Stay; New Hampshire; Misgiving; A Boundless Moment; The Axe-Helve; The Grind-Stone; The Witch of Coos; The Pauper Witch of Grafton; A Star In A Stone ...
A tale told by the fire-side after Returning to the Vale of Grasmere. Former title: Bore the title of "The Blind Highland Boy. (A Tale told by the Fireside.)" from 1807–1820. "Now we are tired of boisterous joy," Poems referring to the Period of Childhood (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 October 1803 1803
"Birches" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. First published in the August 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly together with "The Road Not Taken" and "The Sound of Trees" as "A Group of Poems". It was included in Frost's third collection of poetry Mountain Interval, which was published in 1916.