When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. James Love (poet) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Love_(poet)

    Love was also the brother of George Dance the Younger, who took on the same occupation as his father. It is probable that both the Younger and the Elder helped to construct the Richmond Theatre. According to Dorothy Stroud, "references to the building are vague and two of them, while agreeing as to sponsors, differ as to the name of the designer.

  3. Pomes Penyeach - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomes_Penyeach

    The word "love" appears thirteen times in this collection of thirteen short poems (and the word "heart" appears almost as frequently) in a variety of contexts. Sometimes romantic love is intended, in tones that vary from sentimental or nostalgic ("O sighing grasses,/ Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!") to scathing ("They mouth love's language.

  4. Cricket poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_poetry

    The poem by James Love is too long to quote in full; above are its opening two lines. It describes a match in 1744 between Kent and England. It describes a match in 1744 between Kent and England. It is written in rhyming couplets.

  5. One Word is Too Often Profaned - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Word_is_Too_Often_Profaned

    The first line of each couplet contains three accents and the second line contains two. [3] This poem has at times been printed with the titles To ---and Love. The poem was published in London in 1824 in the collection Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley by John and Henry L. Hunt.

  6. The Naming of Cats - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naming_of_Cats

    The Naming of Cats is a poem in T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. It was adapted into a musical number in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats, and has also been quoted in other films, notably Logan's Run (1976). The poem describes to humans how cats get their names.

  7. The love that dare not speak its name - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_love_that_dare_not...

    The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde's gross indecency trial and is usually interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality. [1]

  8. Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_in_a_Hammock_at...

    Some have argued the line has no meaning. Thom Gunn asserted this was the case in 1964, writing that the line was "...certainly meaningless. The more one searches for an explicit meaning in it, the vaguer it becomes. Other general statements of different import could well be substituted for it and the poem would neither gain nor lose strength."

  9. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Possum's_Book_of...

    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1981 musical Cats .