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Dramatic Romances and Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1845 in London, as the seventh volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates.
After the publication of his collected poems, the Kilmarnock volume, Burns regularly travelled and stayed at Edinburgh. While there he established a platonic relationship with Mrs Agnes Maclehose and they began a regular correspondence using the pseudonyms "Clarinda" and "Sylvander". Burns wrote "Ae fond kiss" after their final meeting and sent ...
The last line of the prepared address echoes the second and third lines of the poem. [2] [3] The same lines were also used in the lyrics of Pink Floyd's "The Gunner's Dream" (1983, on The Final Cut) [4] and Al Stewart's "Somewhere in England 1915" (2005, on A Beach Full of Shells). The poem is read in its entirety in films Oh!
Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd ; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [ 1 ] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim . [ 2 ]
A Red, Red Rose" is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources. The song is also referred to by the title "(Oh) My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem. Many composers have set Burns' lyric to music, but it gained worldwide popularity set to the traditional tune "Low Down in the Broom"
Robert Loveman (April 11, 1864 – July 10, 1923) was an American poet. Born to a Jewish [1] family in Cleveland, Ohio, he was educated at the Dalton Academy in Dalton, Georgia, [2] later attending the University of Alabama where he received his A.M. Loveman lived with Friedman relatives at the Battle Friedman House while attending the University of Alabama. [3]
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...