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"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based on Thayer's college nickname, "Phinney". [1]
April Twilights is a 1903 collection of poems by Willa Cather. It was reedited by Cather in 1923 and 1933. [ 1 ] The poems were first published in many literary reviews, [ 2 ] often under pen names.
"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on ...
Twilight of the Gods (Götterdämmerung), the last of the four operas by Richard Wagner that make up The Ring of the Nibelung; Twilight of the Gods, a 1991 album by Bathory; Twilight of the Gods, a Bathory tribute band and supergroup, fronted by Alan Averill "Twilight of the Gods", a song by Helloween from Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871 "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2 ] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
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Although the sisters seem to be quite young, they live by themselves in a house, and draw water every evening from a stream. As the poem begins, the sisters hear the calls of the goblin merchants selling their fantastic fruits in the twilight. On this evening, Laura, intrigued by their strangeness, lingers at the stream after her sister goes home.