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  2. Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The poem has been referred to as "a short sequel" to "The Old Cumberland Beggar", and Wordsworth himself regarded it as "an overflowing" of it. [3] [4] The form of the poem has been described as "a sonnet-like poem in two acts". [5] It consists of one stanza written in blank verse. [6] The poem describes an old man and the journey he is on.

  3. On This Island - Wikipedia

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    On This Island is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, first published under the title Look, Stranger! in the UK in 1936, then published under Auden's preferred title, On this Island, in the US in 1937. It is also the title of one of the poems in the collection. The book contains thirty-one poems.

  4. Celia Thaxter - Wikipedia

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    Celia Laighton was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 29, 1835, but the family moved soon after to the Isles of Shoals, first on White Island, where her father, Thomas Laighton, was a lighthouse keeper of the Isles of Shoals Light, and then on Smuttynose and Appledore Islands.

  5. Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes - Wikipedia

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    Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full:

  6. The Wandering Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Wandering Islands (1955) is the first poetry collection by Australian poet A. D. Hope.It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1955. [1]The collection consists of 39 poems, most are published in this collection for the first time and others are reprinted from various Australian poetry publications.

  7. Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor - Wikipedia

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    Further, Richard Mathews writes that this "oldest fantasy text contains archetypal narrative of the genre: an uninitiated hero on a sea journey is thrown off course by a storm, encounters an enchanted island, confronts a monster, and survives, wiser for the experience," commenting additionally that the monster (snake) is the prototype for "the ...

  8. The Pine of Formentor - Wikipedia

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    Miquel Costa i Llobera wrote the poem in Catalan language in 1875, during his first period of production, when he was only 21 years old. [2] To compose it, the poet took inspiration from the majestic landscapes and visions of the pine trees rooted in the cliffs of the Formentor peninsula on Mallorca island. He frequented those sites from an ...

  9. Widsith - Wikipedia

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    "Widsith" (Old English: Wīdsīþ, "far-traveller", lit. "wide-journey"), also known as "The Traveller's Song", [1] is an Old English poem of 143 lines. It survives only in the Exeter Book ( pages 84v–87r ), a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late-10th century, which contains approximately one-sixth of all surviving Old ...