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Walt Whitman, aged 37, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer "Pioneers!O Pioneers!" is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman.It was first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. The poem was written as a tribute to Whitman's fervor for the great Westward expansion in the United States that led to things like the California Gold Rush and exploration of the far west.
Choe Nam-seon (Korean: 최남선; April 26, 1890 – October 10, 1957), also known by the Japanese pronunciation of his name Sai Nanzen, was a Korean historian, political activist, poet, and publisher who was best remembered as a leading member of the Korean independence movement.
Leaves of Grass (Book IV. Children of Adam.) I Dream'd in a Dream " I dream’d in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the" Leaves of Grass (Book V. Calamus) 1860 I Hear America Singing " I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear," Leaves of Grass (Book I. Inscriptions) ; The Patriotic Poems III (Poems of America) 1860
"Let America Be America Again" is a poem written in 1935 by American poet Langston Hughes.It was originally published in the July 1936 issue of Esquire Magazine.The poem was republished in the 1937 issue of Kansas Magazine and was revised and included in a small collection of Langston Hughes poems entitled A New Song, published by the International Workers Order in 1938.
"America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey, [1] though the two never met. [2] Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled "Pikes Peak".
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Yeats intended for the poem to be printed last in the collection, as an envoi to "The Circus Animals' Desertion", and while a debate as to the true order of the poems has continued since 1939, "Politics" was the last lyric poem Yeats wrote and remains the final work printed in all posthumous editions. [3]
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