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Joyce Kilmer's reputation as a poet is staked largely on the widespread popularity of this one poem. "Trees" was liked immediately on first publication in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; [26] when Trees and Other Poems was published the following year, the review in Poetry focused on the "nursery rhyme" directness and simplicity of the poems ...
Cad Goddeu (Middle Welsh: Kat Godeu, English: The Battle of the Trees) is a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book of Taliesin. The poem refers to a traditional story in which the legendary enchanter Gwydion animates the trees of the forest to fight as his army.
Modern English free translation by Raymond Oliver [3] 1. Under the lime tree On the heather, Where we had shared a place of rest, Still you may find there, Lovely together, Flowers crushed and grass down-pressed. Beside the forest in the vale, Tándaradéi,* Sweetly sang the nightingale. 2. I came to meet him At the green: There was my truelove ...
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Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, commanding a beautiful prospect. "Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree stands" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.(1815–43); Poems written in Youth(1845) 1798 The Reverie of Poor Susan 1797
The poem was originally the 420th of the Kokin Wakashū. [13] tobi-ume or the "flying plum" at Dazaifu Tenmangū. Another of his famous waka is a poem written in 901 just before he left Kyoto for Daizaifu by demotion. He felt deep sorrow that he would never see his precious plum tree in his residence in Kyoto again, so he talked endearingly to it:
"Gingo biloba" (originally "Ginkgo biloba") is a poem written in September 1815 by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Written as a show of friendship to Marianne von Willemer, the poem was later published in his collection West–östlicher Divan (West–Eastern Divan) in 1819. Goethe used "Gingo" instead of "Ginkgo" in later ...
In writing this poem, Frost was inspired by his childhood experience with swinging on birches, which was a popular game for children in rural areas of New England during the time. Frost's own children were avid "birch swingers", as demonstrated by a selection from his daughter Lesley's journal: "On the way home, i climbed up a high birch and ...