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A writer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted, of the original publication: "A beautiful volume, as far as typography goes, is Mr Will H. Ogilvie's 'Fair Girls and Gray Horses,' a collection of Australian poetry with the imprint of the 'Bulletin' Company. The real westward—that means anywhere from Menindie to the Gulf of Carpentaria and west of ...
He moved to Seattle in 1869, and during his career, Hall operated at various times a construction business, a furniture making company, a real estate development office, and other ventures. [1] A Republican, Hall served several terms on the city council. [1] He served as Mayor of Seattle from 1891 until 1892. [2]
The land we love (1910), 76 poems, 157 pages, published by Thomas Fraser, of Dalbeattie, Scotland. [106] A second edition was released in 1913; The overlander, and other verses (1913), 45 poems, 127 pages, published by Fraser, Asher and Company Limited, of Glasgow, Scotland; Fair girls (1914), 43 poems, 136 pages, published by Angus & Robertson.
Hall's poetry was first published when he was aged seventeen in the anthology, The Best Poems of 1938. [1] He subsequently wrote and published a trickle of short poems over seven further decades. Not a modernist, he was included in Dannie Abse 's 'reactionary anthology' Mavericks . [ 2 ]
Whalley's "rare body of wartime poetry" [2] has been praised as "war poems [that] display a mature range and scope that is unmatched by any other of the second world war poets". [3] John Ferns argues that Whalley's best poem is the seven-part 'Battle Pattern,' written about the pursuit and sinking of the Bismarck and calls it one of the great ...
Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry composed by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. The collection was published in May 1865. [1] The first 500 copies of the collection were printed in April 1865, [2] the same month President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The poem honors the famed Confederate Army officer Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and was written by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906), who stated that he had written the ballad on September 16, 1862; [1] however, Miller & Beacham, who published the song in 1862, stated that the song was found on the body of a Confederate ...
"London, 1802" is a poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In the poem Wordsworth castigates the English people as stagnant and selfish, and eulogises seventeenth-century poet John Milton. Composed in 1802, "London, 1802" was published for the first time in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).