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North of Boston/Mending Wall at Wikisource. Frost composed the poem at his farm in Derry, New Hampshire; his home from 1901 to 1911. " Mending Wall " is a poem by Robert Frost. It opens Robert's second collection of poetry, North of Boston, [1] published in 1914 by David Nutt, and has become "one of the most anthologized and analyzed poems in ...
Nothing gold can stay. Reading of "Nothing Gold Can Stay". " Nothing Gold Can Stay " is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [1] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
The poem uses the image of a flowering plant - specifically that of a chasmophyte rooted in the wall of the wishing well - as a source of inspiration for mystical/metaphysical speculation [1] and is one of multiple poems where Tennyson touches upon the topic of the relationships between God, nature, and human life. [2]
1816 first edition title page. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, near Windsor Great Park and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend Thomas Love Peacock.
I Sing the Body Electric. " I Sing the Body Electric " is a poem by Walt Whitman from his 1855 collection Leaves of Grass. The poem is divided into nine sections, each celebrating a different aspect of human physicality. Its original publication, like the other poems in Leaves of Grass, did not have a title. In fact, the line "I sing the body ...
The contrast in colouration with the above copy L demonstrates the uniqueness and variation between Blake's different printings. This copy is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] " The Human Abstract " is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. [2]
In the poem, Hesiod also offers his brother extensive moralizing advice on how he should live his life. Works and Days is perhaps best known for its two mythological aetiologies for the toil and pain that define the human condition - the story of Prometheus and Pandora , and the so-called Myth of Five Ages .
A Landseer dog, the breed Byron eulogized, painted by Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873. " Epitaph to a Dog " (also sometimes referred to as " Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog ") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Landseer dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies.