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"Birches" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. First published in the August 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly together with "The Road Not Taken" and "The Sound of Trees" as "A Group of Poems". It was included in Frost's third collection of poetry Mountain Interval, which was published in 1916.
"On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind" "The Figure in the Doorway" "At Woodward's Gardens" "A Record Stride" "Taken Singly" "Lost in Heaven" "Desert Places" "Leaves Compared with Flowers" "A Leaf Treader" "On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base" "They Were Welcome to Their Belief" "The Strong Are Saying Nothing" "The Master Speed ...
Jack Sullivan writes that Whitman "had an early, intuitive appreciation of vocal music, one that, as he himself acknowledged, helped shape Leaves of Grass" [110] Sullivan claims that one of the first compositions setting Whitman's poem, Charles Villiers Stanford ' s Elegiac Ode, Op. 21 (1884), a four-movement work scored for baritone and ...
John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...
LIKE TO THE DAMASK ROSE Like [to] [4] the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on [a] [5] tree, Or like the dainty flow’r of May, Or like the morning [of] [6] the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had, Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done : The rose withers, the ...
"Music, When Soft Voices Die" is a major poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1824 in London by John and Henry L. Hunt with a preface by Mary Shelley. [1] The poem is one of the most anthologised, influential, and well-known of Shelley's works. [2] [3]
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 To the River Greta, near Keswick 1833 "Greta, what fearful listening! when huge stones" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 To the River Derwent 1833 "Among the mountains were we nursed, loved Stream!" Miscellaneous Sonnets. (1820–1832 ...
But in the 3rd stanza, the poem’s pastoralism begins to work against convention. Alluding to a moment in Virgil’s Eclogues 10 when a pastoral lover carves his mistresses’ name into the bark of a tree, Marvell’s speaker denounces such "Fond lovers, cruel as their flame," preferring instead to "wound" his trees only with their own names. [8]