Excerpt: "e;Sing a song of Sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty Blackbirds, Baked in a pie; When the pie was open'd, The birds began to sing, Oh, was not that a dainty dish, To set before the King.
Walt Whitman's "e;The Wound-Dresser"e; is a sixty-five-line free-verse poem in four sections describing the suffering in the Civil War hospitals and the poet's suffering, faithfulness to duty, and developing compassion as he tended to soldiers' physical wounds and gave comfort.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Zu den wiederkehrenden Themen gehören die typischen Motive des persischen Ghasels: unerwiderte Liebe, Trennung und Sehnsucht, aber auch das Schwärmen für die Schönheit und Reize der angebeteten Person.
Die Ausgabe von 1844 Nach einem schmalen Band, den die Droste 1838 mit mäßigem Erfolg herausgab, erscheint 1844 bei Cotta ihre zweite und weit bedeutendere Lyrikausgabe.
Valuable not only as an early collection of thirty-seven poems, but for "e;Professor Slote's introduction, which considers events leading to the poems, critically analyses them and then brilliantly relates them to Willa Cather's fictional themes and techniques.
Excerpt: "e;These selections from the poetry of Robert Browning have been made with especial reference to the tastes and capacities of readers of the high-school age.
Das Hauptthema des Gedichts, die vereitelte Liebe eines jungen Paares, das mit sozialen Vorurteilen konfrontiert ist, würde sich tatsächlich auf eine Episode in Mistrals Leben beziehen.
Die besten Gedichte von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) - einem deutschen Dichter (Epoche des Sturm und Drangs und der Weimarer Klassik), Dramatiker, Romancier, Naturforscher, Staatsmann, Theaterdirektor, Kritiker und Amateurkünstler.
Excerpt: "e;A poet may write pleasingly about mountains, and cyclones, and battles, and the love of woman, but if he is at all timid about the verdict of posterity he should avoid the theme of childhood as he would avoid the plague.
As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced.
Auszug: "Die Trichter: Zwei Trichter wandeln durch die Nacht, durch ihres Rumpfs verengten Schacht fließt weißes Mondlicht still und heiter auf ihren Waldweg und so weiter.
Featuring the full contents of Robert Frost's first three volumes of poetry-A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval-this superbly designed collection is a testament to the beauty of the master's writing.
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.
Phineas Fletcher was a prolific English poet who was born on 8th April, 1582, the eldest son to Dr Giles Fletcher in Cranbrook, Kent who also sired another poet, his namesake, Giles.