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The discs were used as evidence for a soldiers death . This poem is influenced by William Shakespeare's Sonnet 104 first two lines; To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd and John Keats' poem ' When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be '.
The Bohemian Girl is an English language Romantic opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn.The plot is loosely based on a Miguel de Cervantes' tale, La gitanilla.
The first line of the poem, "I heard a fly buzz– when I died–" is intended to garner the attention of the reader. [4] Readers are said to be drawn to continue the poem, curious as to how the speaker is talking about her own death. [4] The narrator then reflects on the moments prior to the very moment she died. [1]
"A Dream" is a poem by English poet William Blake. The poem was first published in 1789 as part of Blake's collection of poems entitled Songs of Innocence.. A 1795 hand painted version of "A Dream" from Copy L of Songs of Innocence and of Experience currently held by the Yale Center for British Art [1]
This, Sorley's last poem, was recovered from his kit after his death. It was untitled, and so is commonly known by its incipit , or other titles. It is generally interpreted as a rebuttal to Rupert Brooke 's 1915 sonnet " The Soldier .", [ 2 ] which begins "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field ...
"Joe Hill", also known as "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", [1] is a folk song named after labor activist Joe Hill, which was originally written in poem by Alfred Hayes [2] and composed into music by Earl Robinson in 1936. [3]
I Dreamt a Dream! what can it mean? And that I was a maiden Queen: Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe, was ne'er beguil'd! And I wept both night and day
However, his poetry is "full of thought and richness of diction", in the words of John William Cousin, who praised Beddoes's short pieces such as "If thou wilt ease thine heart" (from Death's Jest-Book, Act II) and "If there were dreams to sell" ("Dream-Pedlary") as "masterpieces of intense feeling exquisitely expressed". [6]