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"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802" is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free" is a sonnet by William Wordsworth written at Calais in August 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807, appearing as the nineteenth poem in a section entitled 'Miscellaneous sonnets'.
To the Small Celandine (first poem) 1802, 30 April Manuscript title: " To the lesser Celandine" "Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies," Poems of the Fancy. 1807 To the same Flower (second poem) [Sequel to "To the Small Celandine"] 1802, 1 May "Pleasures newly found are sweet" Poems of the Fancy: 1807 Resolution and Independence: 1802, 3 May – 4 ...
The end of "Night" shifts its focus to God, showing that true comfort and salvation can only come from the supernatural. [11] The complexity of "Night" is addressed in Hazard Adams' William Blake: A Reading of the Shorter Poems. Adams claims that the poem is complex because of the speaker's push to join the natural and supernatural world together.
"To a Butterfly" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807. Wordsworth wrote two poems addressing a butterfly, of which this is the first and best known. [ 1 ]
William Bolcom was asked to set this poem as a duet for Tatiana Troyanos and Benita Valente. [2] William Bolcom’s setting of the text “Let Evening Come” was performed in honor of the memory of Tatiana Toryanos on April 17 in Tully Hall by a soprano named Benita Valente. This recital concluded the New York premier of "Let Evening Come."
In 1990 Dutch composer Jurriaan Andriessen set the poem to a mixed chamber choir setting. Rufus Wainwright's "Sonnet 43", the sixth track on his album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010), is a musical setting of the sonnet. In 2004 Flemish composer Ludo Claesen set this poem to a setting for chamber music (flute, piano and soprano-solo).
Title page of Poetical Sketches. Poetical Sketches is the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 and 1777.Forty copies were printed in 1783 with the help of Blake's friends, the artist John Flaxman and the Reverend Anthony Stephen Mathew, at the request of his wife Harriet Mathew.