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  2. Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes - Wikipedia

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    However, many shorter poems have since been written. A notable example was composed by boxer Muhammad Ali. On June 4, 1975, after giving a speech at Harvard University, Ali was discussing poetry on stage with journalist George Plimpton. When asked for the shortest poem of all time, Plimpton recited "Fleas" as above, and Ali responded, "I've got ...

  3. Catullus 68 - Wikipedia

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    Poem 68 is a complex elegy written by Catullus, who lived in the 1st century BCE during the time of the Roman Republic.This poem addresses common themes of Catullus' poetry such as friendship, poetic activity, love and betrayal, and grief for his brother.

  4. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude - Wikipedia

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    The poem is 720 lines long. It is considered to be one of the first of Shelley's major poems. Peacock suggested the name Alastor, which comes from Roman mythology. Peacock has defined Alastor as "evil genius". The name does not refer to the hero or Poet of the poem, however, but instead to the spirit who divinely animates the Poet's imagination.

  5. Gingo biloba - Wikipedia

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    "Gingo biloba" (originally "Ginkgo biloba") is a poem written in September 1815 by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Written as a show of friendship to Marianne von Willemer, the poem was later published in his collection West–östlicher Divan (West–Eastern Divan) in 1819. Goethe used "Gingo" instead of "Ginkgo" in later ...

  6. Paul Janeczko - Wikipedia

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    Wherever Home Begins: 100 Contemporary Poems (1995) I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Presented in Pairs [with Naomi Shihab Nye] (1996) Home on the Range: Cowboy Poetry (1997) Very Best (Almost) Friends: Poems of Friendship (1999) Stone Bench In An Empty Park (2000) A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems ...

  7. William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. In 1795, he received a legacy of £900 from Raisley Calvert and was able to pursue a career as a poet. It was also in 1795 that he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. The two poets quickly developed a close friendship.

  8. Katherine Philips - Wikipedia

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    In fact, many of her poems were written for or about fellow Society of Friendship members Anne Owen and Mary Aubrey, who went by the names of Lucasia and Rosania, respectively. [14] A series of letters exchanged by Philips and her friend Sir Charles Cotterell between 6 December 1661 and 17 May 1664 were recovered and published in 1705, [ 14 ...

  9. Robert Herrick (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) [1] was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric.He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems.