"1969. George Harrison included a song titled ""Wreck of the Hesperus"" on his 1987 album ""Cloud Nine"". The English poet Roger McGough recited a one-minute version of the poem, complete with sound effects, on the album ""Miniatures"" produced by Morgan Fisher in 1980. ""Mad"" magazine parodied the poem by presenting the text with outlandish illustrations by Wallace Wood, including a pint-sized captain and a hideous, tall daughter, who survives the storms and strides away still tied to the mast. The Wreck of the Hesperus ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"" is a narrative poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first"
"Those who had nothing to climb onto quickly succumbed to hypothermia. The ship was still burning when it sank at 3:00 a.m. According to legend, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was scheduled to travel on the ""Lexington""'s fatal voyage, but missed it due to discussing the merits of a recent poem, The Wreck of the Hesperus, with a publisher. The poem also included a ship sinking. One of the passengers who was lost in the catastrophe was the noted radical minister and abolitionist Karl Follen (1796–1840). The disaster was depicted in a celebrated colored lithograph by Currier and Ives, and was"
"ship that foundered during the same storm. “The Wreck of the Hesperus” is based on two events: an actual shipwreck at Norman’s Woe, after which a body like the one in the poem was found, and the real wreck of the Hesperus, which took place near Boston. Despite that fact, the poem is so well known that the loop road leading close to Norman’s Woe from Route 127 is named Hesperus Ave. In December 1839, Longfellow wrote in his diary about the writing of ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"": ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"" was adapted into films of the"
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ""The Wreck of the ""Edmund Fitzgerald"""" is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS ""Edmund Fitzgerald"" on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Lightfoot drew his inspiration from ""Newsweek"" article on the event, ""The Cruelest Month"", which it published in its November 24, 1975, issue. Lightfoot considers this song to be his finest work. Appearing originally on Lightfoot's 1976 album ""Summertime Dream"", the single version hit number 1 in his native Canada (in the ""RPM"" national singles survey) on November 20,"
"the child, but dies herself. The poem has inspired the titles of a variety of popular culture entities. For example: it was the inspiration for a 1944 Mighty Mouse cartoon of the same name, and Wreck of the Hesperus is the name of an Irish doom/drone metal band. The Pleasure Island amusement park in Wakefield, Massachusetts (1958 - 1970), 18 miles south-west of the site where the fictional ""Hesperus"" sank, featured a ride named ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"". The rock band Procol Harum included their song ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"" on their album ""A Salty Dog"", released in"
"Norman's Woe Norman's Woe is a rock reef on Cape Ann in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about 500 feet offshore. It has been the site of a number of ship wrecks including the “Rebecca Ann” in March, 1823 during a snowstorm. Another was the wreck of the schooner “Favorite” out of Wiscasset, Maine, in December 1839. It is the subject of an 1872 painting ""Off Norman's Woe,"" by Edward Moran. In fiction, it is the site of ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"", a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Its maximum elevation is 23 feet (7 meters), but much of the reef"
"of Troy according to Stesichorus'). Scholars are divided as to whether or not it accurately depicts incidents described by Stesichorus in his poem ""Sack of Troy"". There is, for example, a scene showing Aeneas and his father Anchises departing 'for Hesperia' with 'sacred objects', which might have more to do with the poetry of Virgil than with that of Stesichorus. Stesichorus Stesichorus (; , ""Stēsikhoros""; c. 630 – 555 BC) was the first great lyric poet of the West. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about"
"The Convergence of the Twain ""The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the ""Titanic"")"" is a poem by Thomas Hardy, published in 1912. The poem describes the sinking and wreckage of the ocean liner ""Titanic"". ""Convergence"" consists of eleven stanzas (""I"" to ""XI"") of three lines each, following the AAA rhyme pattern. Hardy was asked to compose a poem to be read at a charity concert to raise funds in aid of the tragedy disaster fund. It was first published as part of the souvenir program for that event. One interpretation is that Hardy's controversial poem contrasts"
"used by the Quogue Life-Saving Station (NRHP ref# 99000640) before the quarters were upgraded in 1872 to a larger red house. The red house still remains on Dune Road as a private home after the quarters were moved in 1912. The original shed was in use from 1849 to 1872 and involved Maritime disasters. The poet Longfellow famously wrote in 1839 of The Wreck of the Hesperus, a tale of a winter storm and ill-fated voyage off the Atlantic coast of which Long Islands had its own share; and the need for coast watchers and seagoing rescue crafts had spawned"
"Hyperion (poem) Hyperion is an abandoned epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats. It is based on the Titanomachia, and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians. Keats wrote the poem from late 1818 until the spring of 1819, when he gave it up as having ""too many Miltonic inversions."" He was also nursing his younger brother Tom, who died on 1 December 1818 of tuberculosis. The themes and ideas were picked up again in Keats's """", when he attempted to recast the epic by framing it with a personal quest to"
"Felicia Hemans rather than to Longfellow). Additionally, in Kevin Sullivan's 1985 film of ""Anne of Green Gables"", a character recites ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"" prior to Anne's rousing rendition of ""The Highwayman"". ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"" is also mentioned in the 2017 Woody Allen film ""Wonder Wheel"". ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"" is referenced in the comic song ""Lydia the Tattooed Lady"" by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, performed by Groucho Marx in the movie ""At the Circus"" (1939); by Virginia Weidler in ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1940); by Robin Williams in ""The Fisher King"" (1991); by Kermit the"
"of the sinking of the ""Titanic"". The Convergence of the Twain ""The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the ""Titanic"")"" is a poem by Thomas Hardy, published in 1912. The poem describes the sinking and wreckage of the ocean liner ""Titanic"". ""Convergence"" consists of eleven stanzas (""I"" to ""XI"") of three lines each, following the AAA rhyme pattern. Hardy was asked to compose a poem to be read at a charity concert to raise funds in aid of the tragedy disaster fund. It was first published as part of the souvenir program for that event. One interpretation"
"Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, including ""Essay on Criticism"", ""The Rape of the Lock"" and ""The Dunciad"", and for his translation of Homer. He is the second-most frequently quoted writer in ""The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations"" after Shakespeare. Alexander Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior (1646–1717), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith (née Turner) (1643–1733), who were both Catholics. Edith's sister Christiana was the wife of the famous miniature painter Samuel Cooper. Pope's"
"same name in 1927 and 1948. The title phrase is sometimes used colloquially to indicate a disheveled appearance. For example, in the film ""The Big Circus"" (1959), one character tells another: ""I didn't bring the rain, and you're beginning to look like the wreck of the Hesperus."" The poem has also been mentioned in other works. For example, in the 1975 Australian film, ""Picnic at Hanging Rock"", the headmistress forbids a student from participating in a school outing because she has failed to memorize lines from the poem (although in the original novel, the headmistress wrongly attributes the poem to"
"and in England, took credit for inspiring the poem with varying amounts of evidence. The Longfellow family became annoyed with the preponderance of claims. In 1922, the poet's son Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow responded to these people in his book ""Random Memories"". In a section called ""Quips and Cranks"", he wrote: ""The Village Blacksmith"" was first published in the November 1840 issue of ""The Knickerbocker"". It was soon after printed as part of Longfellow's poetry collection ""Ballads and Other Poems"" in 1841. The collection, which also included ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"", was instantly popular. In 1879, years after the publication"
"Descent of Perithous The Descent of Perithous (, ""Peirithou katabasis"") is a fragmentary epic poem that was ascribed to Hesiod by the 2nd-century CE geographer Pausanias. The eponymous topic of the poem would have been the myth of Theseus and Perithous' trip to Hades seeking to win Persephone as bride for Perithous. During the expedition, Hades trapped the heroes by seating them in the ""chairs of forgetfullness"", and only Heracles could save them. One tentatively assigned papyrus fragment survives which includes a conversation between Meleager and Theseus. It is also possible that this fragment belongs to the ""Minyas"", and the"
"Der Untergang der Titanic Der Untergang der Titanic, or, in English, The Sinking of the Titanic, is an epic and allegorical poem by the German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger, first published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1978. The poem is primarily about the failure of Western civilization as an enterprise, a point which Enzensberger makes explicitly in the passage about Icelanders, who, when their properties are threatened by volcanic lava flows, endeavour to stem the inexorable tide with hoses: Similarities and parallels have been frequently drawn between this poem and T. S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"", not only in terms of"
"Thyrsis (poem) ""Thyrsis"" (from the title of Theocritus's poem ""Θύρσις"") is a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in November 1861 aged only 42. The character, Thyrsis, was a shepherd in Virgil's Seventh Eclogue, who lost a singing match against Corydon. The implication that Clough was a loser is hardly fair, given that he is thought by many to have been one of the greatest Nineteenth Century poets (but see line 80: ""For Time, not Corydon, hath conquer’d thee""). Arnold's decision to imitate a Latin pastoral"
"and Edith Heraud, an actress. John Abraham Heraud John Abraham Heraud (1799–1887) was an English journalist and poet. He published two extravagant epic poems, ""The Descent into Hell"" (1830), and ""The Judgment of the Flood"" (1834). He also wrote plays, and travel books. He was born in the parish of St Andrew's, Holborn, London, on 5 July 1799. His father, James Abraham Heraud, of Huguenot descent, was a law stationer, and died at Tottenham, Middlesex, on 6 May 1846, having married Jane, daughter of John and Elizabeth Hicks; she died 2 August 1850. John Abraham, the son, was privately educated,"
"""La Belle Dame sans Merci"", ""Ode to a Nightingale"", ""To Autumn"". Percy Shelley, known to contemporaries for his radical politics and association with figures such as Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, daughter of radical thinkers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, was the third major romantic poet of the second generation. Generally regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, Shelley is perhaps best known for poems such as ""Ozymandias"", ""Ode to the West Wind"", ""To a Skylark"" and ""Adonaïs"", an elegy written on the death of Keats. Mary Shelley (1797–1851) is remembered as the author of ""Frankenstein"""
"Catullus 2 Catullus 2 is a poem by Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (""c"". 84 – ""c"". 54 BCE) that describes the affectionate relationship between an unnamed ""puella"" (possibly Catullus' lover, Lesbia), and her pet sparrow. As scholar and poet John Swinnerton Phillimore has noted, ""The charm of this poem, blurred as it is by a corrupt manuscript tradition, has made it one of the most famous in Catullus' book."" The meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic, a common form in Catullus' poetry. This poem, together with Catullus' other poems, survived from antiquity in a single manuscript discovered ""c"". 1300"
"Ulysses (poem) ""Ulysses"" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted poem, it is popularly used to illustrate the dramatic monologue form. Facing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Ithaca, after his far-ranging travels. Despite his reunion with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus, Ulysses yearns to explore again. The character of Ulysses (in Greek, Odysseus) has been explored widely in literature. The adventures of Odysseus were first recorded"
"Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, and Joseph Emerson Worcester. It is preserved today as the Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. Longfellow began publishing his poetry in 1839, including the collection ""Voices of the Night"", his debut book of poetry. The bulk of ""Voices of the Night"" was translations, though he also included nine original poems and seven poems that he had written as a teenager. ""Ballads and Other Poems"" was published in 1841 and included ""The Village Blacksmith"" and ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"", which were instantly popular. He became part of the local social scene, creating a group of"
"Cypria The Cypria ( ""Kúpria""; Latin: ""Cypria"") is a lost epic poem of ancient Greek literature, which has been attributed to Stasinus and was quite well known in classical antiquity and fixed in a received text, but which subsequently was lost to view. It was part of the Epic Cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic hexameter verse. The story of the ""Cypria"" comes chronologically at the beginning of the Epic Cycle, and is followed by that of the ""Iliad""; the composition of the two was apparently in the reverse order. The poem comprised eleven"
"is likely that further poems will be familiar to new readers, such as ""The Image in Lava,"" ""Evening Prayer at a Girls' School,"" ""I Dream of All Things Free,"" ""Night-Blowing Flowers,"" ""Properzia Rossi,"" ""A Spirit's Return,"" ""The Bride of the Greek Isle,"" ""The Wife of Asdrubal,"" ""The Widow of Crescentius,"" ""The Last Song of Sappho,"" and ""Corinne at the Capitol."" First published in August 1826 the poem ""Casabianca"" (also known as ""The Boy stood on the Burning Deck"") by Felicia Hemans depicts Captain Louis de Casabianca and his 12-year-old son, Giocante, who both perished aboard the ship ""Orient"" during the"
"Robert Herrick (poet) Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for ""Hesperides"", a book of poems. This includes the ""carpe diem"" poem ""To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"", with the first line ""Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"". Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. He was named for his uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a prosperous MP for Leicester, who had bought the land Greyfriars Abbey stood"
"existence of an independent Hesiodic poem on the descent of Theseus and Perithous is complicated by the fact that elsewhere Pausanias attributes the myth to the ""Minyas"". The sheer number of Hesiodic papyri that have survived compared to those of other works of archaic epic, however, lends credence to the attribution to the Hesiodic corpus. Descent of Perithous The Descent of Perithous (, ""Peirithou katabasis"") is a fragmentary epic poem that was ascribed to Hesiod by the 2nd-century CE geographer Pausanias. The eponymous topic of the poem would have been the myth of Theseus and Perithous' trip to Hades seeking"
"Edwin Atherstone Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872) was a poet and novelist. His works, which were planned on an imposing scale, attracted some temporary attention and applause, but are now forgotten. His chief poem, ""The Fall of Nineveh"", consisting of thirty books, appeared at intervals from 1828 to 1868. It narrates about war waged by the coalition of many nations led by Median prince Arbaces and Babylonian priest Belesis against the tyrannical king of Assyria Sardanapalus, who defeated in many battles burns his own palace and dies within. He wrote also ""Israel in Egypt"" (1861), ""The Last Days of Herculaneum"" (1821), ""Abradates"
"lent depth to his poetry. For example, Maynard Mack, the great Pope scholar of the mid- to late twentieth century, argued that Pope's moral vision demanded as much respect as his technical excellence. In the years 1953–1967 the definitive Twickenham edition of Pope's poems was published in ten volumes, including an index volume. Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, including ""Essay on Criticism"", ""The Rape of the Lock"" and ""The Dunciad"", and for his translation of Homer. He is the second-most frequently"
"dare not hold the spear and sword and fine shield to save their skin, all bow and kiss my knee, calling me master and great king"". Hybrias Hybrias () (fl. 6th century BC) was a Cretan mercenary and lyric poet. He was the author of a highly esteemed skolion (drinking song), called the ""spear-song"", which has been preserved by Athenaeus (XV, pp. 695–696), Eustathius of Thessalonica (""Commentary on the Odyssey"", p. 47 & p. 276) and the ""Greek Anthology"". In this piece, Hybrias proclaimed himself a great warrior: ""I have great wealth — a spear, a sword and a fine"
"The Fall of Nineveh The Fall of Nineveh is a long poem in blank verse by Edwin Atherstone. It consists of thirty books preceded by a Prelude. The poem was written over many years and published 1828-1868. It tells of the battles and events during the war between the coalition of Medes and Babylonians against the Assyrians. The main heroes are Sardanapalus, King of Nineveh and of all the Assyrian empire; Arbaces, the prince of Medes; and a Babylonian priest, Belesis. Sardanapalus is portrayed as a womanizer, coward, and cruel tyrant. When defeated by Arbaces he burns his own palace"
"Stasinus According to some ancient authorities, Stasinus () of Cyprus, a semi-legendary early Greek poet, was the author of the ""Cypria"", in eleven books, one of the poems belonging to the Epic Cycle that narrated the War of Troy. According to Photius others ascribed it to Hegesias (or Hegesinus) of Salamis or elsewhere even to Homer himself, who was said to have written it on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Stasinus. At Halicarnassus, according to an inscription found in 1995, local tradition ascribed it to a local poet, a ""Kyprias"" (Κυπρίας). The ""Cypria"", presupposing an acquaintance with the"
"The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) is the second poetry collection of W. B. Yeats. It includes the play ""The Countess Kathleen"" and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of ""The Rose"" in his ""Collected Poems"". This volume includes several of Yeats' most popular poems, including ""The Lake Isle of Innisfree"", ""A Faery Song"", ""When You are Old"", and ""Who Goes with Fergus"". (The last is sung by Stephen Dedalus to his mother as she lies dying in James Joyce's ""Ulysses"".) Many of"