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"Shine, Perishing Republic" is a poem by the American writer Robinson Jeffers, first published in 1925 in the collection Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems. It describes an increasingly corrupt American empire, which it advises readers to view through the naturalizing perspective of social cycles. Jeffers wrote two companion poems in the ...
"Vespers" is a poem by the British author A.A. Milne, first published in 1923 by the American magazine Vanity Fair, and later included in the 1924 book of Milne's poems When We Were Very Young when it was accompanied by two illustrations by E.H. Shephard. It was written about the "Christopher Robin" persona of Milne's son Christopher Robin Milne.
Cover of US paperback edition of Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems. Robin Coste Lewis (born 1964) is an American poet, artist, and scholar. Poet Laureate Emeritus of Los Angeles, Lewis's debut poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2015––the first time a poetry debut by an African-American had ever won the prize in the ...
This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...
She is the author of one book of poetry, Shipbreaking. Her work has appeared in Rattapallax, [1] Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Barrow Street, Washington Square. [2] She currently teaches at Case Western Reserve University and has worked as a deckhand aboard the Bounty, and lived in New York City.
A Way of Walking : Poems in the Traditional Forms and Metres of Japan (1994) Wrestling the Angel: Collected Shorter Poems, 1947–1977 (1994) Samhain (1994) The Edge Of Time: Poems And Translations (1995) Three for Nick (1995) One Leaf Shaking: Collected Later Poems, 1977–1990 (1996) A Further Spring: Love Poems (1996) Lens of Crystal: Poems ...
A Gest of Robyn Hode (also known as A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode) is one of the earliest surviving texts of the Robin Hood tales. Written in late Middle English poetic verse, it is an early example of an English language ballad, in which the verses are grouped in quatrains with an ABCB rhyme scheme, also known as ballad stanzas.
Now We Are Six is a 1927 book of children's poetry by A. A. Milne, with illustrations by E. H. Shepard. It is the second collection of children's poems following Milne's When We Were Very Young, which was first published in 1924. The collection contains thirty-five verses, including eleven poems that feature Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations.