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Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy [1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri.
The poem was included in Pleshcheyev's anthology Snowdrop (Подснeжник; 1878), where it was found by Tchaikovsky. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] When "Legend" is sung by English-speaking choirs, the words used are usually those of Geoffrey Dearmer , who translated Pleshcheyev's Russian text back into English for the English Carol Book (1913).
A portion of the poem is quoted, and plays a pivotal role, in the novel Martin Eden by Jack London. The poem serves as an inspiration for and is quoted in Frank Belknap Long's short story "Step into My Garden", published in August 1942 in the pulp magazine Unknown Worlds. [8] It is also mentioned in A. S. Byatt's book Possession.
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is a long poem written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) as an elegy to President Abraham Lincoln. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the aftermath of the president's assassination on 15 April of that year.
Donovan has set many poems to music in addition to the ones already mentioned: The album H.M.S. Donovan includes several poems from One Hundred Poems for Children compiled by Herbert Strang "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll "Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" by Eugene Field "Queen Mab" by Thomas Hood
The Garden” is one of several poems by Marvell to feature gardens, including his “Nymph Complaining for the Death her Fawn,” “The Mower Against Gardens,” and “Upon Appleton House.” [2] “The Garden” participates in the classical tradition of pastoral poetry , an ancient form that was influential for many English Renaissance ...
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And ‘Thou shall not’ written over the door; So I turned to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves,
Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs, Op. 47, is a set of five part songs to poems in English by four authors which mention flowers, composed for four voices in 1950 as a gift for the 25th wedding anniversary of Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst.