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  2. High Flight - Wikipedia

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    The anthology includes the poem "New World" by G. W. M. Dunn, which contains the phrase "on laughter-silvered wings". Dunn wrote of "the lifting mind", another phrase that Magee used in High Flight , and refers to "the shouting of the air", in comparison to Magee's line, "chased the shouting wind."

  3. One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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    "One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition , the number of magpies seen tells if one will have bad or good luck. Lyrics

  4. Dinogad's Smock - Wikipedia

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    The poem first describes the smock and then lists the animals which were caught in the past by Dinogad's father, stating the heroic manner in which he caught them and his qualities as a hunter. [2] It can be assumed that Dinogad's father was a powerful individual, as a marten-skin smock would have been an extremely valuable object, and the poem ...

  5. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikipedia

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    The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural, and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany ...

  6. Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well - Wikipedia

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    Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well is Maya Angelou's second volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self ...

  7. Futures and promises - Wikipedia

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    The terms future, promise, delay, and deferred are often used interchangeably, although some differences in usage between future and promise are treated below. Specifically, when usage is distinguished, a future is a read-only placeholder view of a variable, while a promise is a writable, single assignment container which sets the value of the ...

  8. Easter Wings - Wikipedia

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    The poem's two-stanzas were originally formatted sideways across opposite pages on its first publication, making the likeness to two sets of wings more obvious. [5] Another pattern poem appearing near the start of his collection, The Temple, was "The Altar". There were three other poems in the shape of wings published later than Herbert's.

  9. Promise problem - Wikipedia

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    The promise is the set of directed acyclic graphs. In this example, the promise is easy to check. In particular, it is very easy to check if a given graph is cyclic. However, the promised property could be difficult to evaluate. For instance, consider the problem "Given a Hamiltonian graph, determine if the graph has a cycle of size 4."