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  2. The Seven Ages of Man (painting series) - Wikipedia

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    The Infant The Schoolboy The Lover The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from the famous monologue beginning all the world's a stage from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The stages referred are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and old age. The set of paintings are in pen and ink ...

  3. All the world's a stage - Wikipedia

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    The Ages of Man, German, 1482 (ten, including a final skeleton) Likewise the division of human life into a series of ages was a commonplace of art and literature, which Shakespeare would have expected his audiences to recognize. The number of ages varied: three and four being the most common among ancient writers such as Aristotle. The concept ...

  4. A Child's Garden of Verses - Wikipedia

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    Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]

  5. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The characters are deliberately written out of order. The first part of the poem is written in the third column from the right, while the second column from the right comes later in the poem. [ 96 ] Chirashigaki may also retain the order, but divide and space the characters unconventionally, with a column break partway through a poetic line or ...

  6. Maxims (Old English poems) - Wikipedia

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    The influence of the Christian monks who copied it upon the traditional material in the poems may thus be seen. In addition to providing moral guidance and precepts for everyday life, both "Maxims" poems "organize things and people into categories, catalogue trade rules, and list things as diverse as skills, fates, and rune names". [11]

  7. Little Things (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Little Things" is a 19th-century poem by Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, written in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Make the mighty ages Of eternity.

  8. Falling Up (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...

  9. Medieval poetry - Wikipedia

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    We do have some secular poetry; in fact a great deal of medieval literature was written in verse, including the Old English epic Beowulf. Scholars are fairly sure, based on a few fragments and on references in historic texts, that much lost secular poetry was set to music, and was spread by traveling minstrels , or bards , across Europe.