"The Ballad of East and West ""The Ballad of East and West"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Kamal, a tribal chieftain in the North-West Frontier (then on the boundary of the British Raj, nowadays in Pakistan), steals the British Colonel's prize mare. The Colonel's son, who commands a troop of the Guides, asks if any of his men know where Kamal might be. One does, and tells him, and warns him of the dangers of entering Kamal's territory guarded by tribesmen concealed among the rocks"
"is West, and never the twain shall meet,"" ""Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment seat;"" ""But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,"" ""When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!""</poem> This may be read as saying that 'it is indisputable that geographic points of the compass will never meet in this life, but that when two strong men [""or"" equals] meet, the accidents of birth, whether of nationality, race, or family, do not matter at all—the mutual respect such individuals have, each"
"'Never-never'."" The Women of the West The Women of the West is a poem by Australian poet George Essex Evans. It was first published in ""The Argus"" newspaper on 7 September 1901, and later in the poet's poetry collection ""The Secret Key and Other Verses"" (1906). ""This poem is dedicated to the pioneering women of the outback who left 'the pleasures of the city and faced the wilderness'. It was written to ensure that their sacrifice would not be forgotten. And what was this sacrifice? Not only did the 'red sun rob their beauty' and “the slow years steal the"
"are in clear water. Rumi ends his poem by stating ""If each had a candle and they went in together the differences would disappear."" One of the most famous versions of the 19th century was the poem """" by John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887). The poem begins: Each in his own opinion concludes that the elephant is like a wall, snake, spear, tree, fan or rope, depending upon where they had touched. Their heated debate comes short of physical violence, but the conflict is never resolved. Natalie Merchant sang this poem in full on her Leave Your Sleep album (Disc 1,"
"moon it shall stray/So dawn goes down today/No gold can stay/No gold can stay."" Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) ""Nothing Gold Can Stay"" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in ""The Yale Review"" in October of that year. It was later published in the collection ""New Hampshire"" (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ""New Hampshire"" also included Frost's poems ""Fire and Ice"" and ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, ""Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between"
"that he can call on a holy war against El Hassan. The novella's title refers to Rudyard Kipling’s poem on the convergence of two seemingly opposed cultural traditions, ""The Ballad of East and West."" In Kipling’s ballad, two warriors from conflicting civilizations come to value each other’s courage and so become blood brothers in spite of their disparate backgrounds. In ""Border, Breed nor Birth"", the introductory blurb (“Kipling said those things didn't count when two strong men stood face to face. But ... do they count when two strong ideologies stand face to face...?”) indicates that the culture clash is"
"Death of Richard West"" to exemplify what he found most objectionable in poetry, declaring it was ""Gray, who was at the head of those who, by their reasonings, have attempted to widen the space of separation betwixt prose and metrical composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction."" Gray wrote in a letter to West, that ""the language of the age is never the language of poetry."" Gray died on 30 July 1771 in Cambridge, and was buried beside his mother in the churchyard of St. Giles' church in Stoke"
"Aristotle Aristotle (; ""Aristotélēs"", ; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece. Along with Plato, he is considered the ""Father of Western Philosophy"". Aristotle provided a complex and harmonious synthesis of the various existing philosophies prior to him, including those of Socrates and Plato, and it was above all from his teachings that the West inherited its fundamental intellectual lexicon, as well as problems and methods of inquiry. As a result, his philosophy has exerted a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) ""Nothing Gold Can Stay"" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in ""The Yale Review"" in October of that year. It was later published in the collection ""New Hampshire"" (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ""New Hampshire"" also included Frost's poems ""Fire and Ice"" and ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, ""Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between paradisiac good and the paradoxically more fruitful human good than 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,'"
"Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book ""Walden"", a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay ""Civil Disobedience"" (originally published as ""Resistance to Civil Government""), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the"
"tomb. Of his interesting life, Hawker himself wrote: ""What a life mine would be if it were all written and published in a book."" Robert Stephen Hawker Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of ""The Song of the Western Men"" with its chorus line of ""And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!"", which he published anonymously in 1825. His name became known after Charles Dickens acknowledged his authorship of ""The Song of the Western Men"""
"Ernest Thayer Ernest Lawrence Thayer (; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem ""Casey"" (or ""Casey at the Bat""), which is ""the single most famous baseball poem ever written"" according to the Baseball Almanac, and ""the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan."" Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Worcester. He graduated ""magna cum laude"" in philosophy from Harvard University in 1885, where he had been editor of the"
"16 December 2012 whilst celebrating Team GB and Paralympics GB winning the team award for 2012. Guest's poem ""See It Through,"" was used in a Chrysler 300 commercial. Guest's poem ""It Couldn't Be Done"" was used in an Audi commercial. ""It Couldn't Be Done"" inspired a parody, ""They Said That It Couldn't Be Done"", by comedian Benny Hill. Edgar Guest Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 in Birmingham, England – 5 August 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet."
"William Heinesen Andreas William Heinesen (15 January 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a poet, novel writer, short story writer, children's book writer, composer and painter from the Faroe Islands. The Faroese capital Tórshavn is always the centre of Heinesen's writing and he is famous for having once called Tórshavn ""The Navel of the World"". His writing focuses on contrasts between darkness and light, between destruction and creativity. Then following is the existential struggle of man to take sides. This is not always easy, however, and the lines between good and bad are not always clearly defined. Heinesen was captivated"
"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"
"Robert Stephen Hawker Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of ""The Song of the Western Men"" with its chorus line of ""And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!"", which he published anonymously in 1825. His name became known after Charles Dickens acknowledged his authorship of ""The Song of the Western Men"" in the serial magazine ""Household Words"". Hawker was born in the clergy house of Charles Church, Plymouth, on 3 December 1803. He was the"
"evidence to support her husband in the dispute. In 1937, Hays's daughter made one final attempt to support her father as the author of ""Dixie"". She wrote to ""The Etude"" that her father had written ""Dixie"" for the Buckner Guards ""when they were called south during the Civil War"". The editor, James Coke, asked for evidence, but she could provide none. To this day: there remains, as yet, no known evidence to support Hays' claim that he did indeed write ""Dixie"". William Shakespeare Hays William Shakespeare Hays (July 19, 1837 – July 23, 1907), was an American poet and lyricist."
"I am a Jew masked as a German; to the Jew a German faithless to Israel."" Ernst Lissauer's papers are at the Leo Baeck Institute Ernst Lissauer Ernst Lissauer (16 December 1882 in Berlin – 10 December 1937 in Vienna) was a German-Jewish poet and dramatist remembered for the phrase ""Gott strafe England"" (""May God punish England""). He also created the ""Hassgesang gegen England"", or ""Song of Hate against England"". Lissauer was ""a round little man, a jolly face above a double double-chin, bubbling over with self-importance and exuberance,"" according to his friend Stefan Zweig. He was a committed nationalist"
"Message from the East Payam-i-Mashriq (; or Message from the East; published in Persian, 1923) is a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of the Indian subcontinent. Payam-i Mashriq is an answer to ""West-östlicher Diwan"" by Goethe, the famous German poet. Immediately after the end of World War I, Iqbal started writing the Payam and it can be presumed that he would have thought in this respect to achieve a goal of bringing the East and the West closer to each other. It is evident from some of Iqbal’s Urdu letters that he first disclosed about his"
"of causing offence to the other. The narrator wants to put this notion to his neighbor's head. But like stone-headed savage, he only repeats his father's saying, ""Good fences make good neighbors."" Mending Wall ""Mending Wall"" is a poem by the twentieth century American poet Robert Frost (1874–1963). It opens Frost's second collection of poetry, ""North of Boston"", published in 1914 by David Nutt, and it has become ""one of the most anthologized and analyzed poems in modern literature"". Like many of the poems in ""North of Boston"", ""Mending Wall"" narrates a story drawn from rural New England. The narrator,"
"cultural references to Baldwin, 30 years after his death, and concluded: ""So Baldwin is not just a writer for the ages, but a scribe whose work—as squarely as George Orwell's—speaks directly to ours."" Together with others: James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in ""Notes of a Native Son"" (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, including ""The Fire Next Time"" (1963), ""No Name in the Street"" (1972),"
"Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are ""Dulce et Decorum est"", ""Insensibility"", ""Anthem"
"William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form ""what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language"". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him ""far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced"". In 2002, Blake was"
"and in some instances older siblings. “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”-Mark Twain You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”. –Christopher Columbus “The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will”. –Vince Lombardi “In a field of opportunities, don’t pick one"
"Division <poem> From the Border vales and the Northern dales, From the rolling wave-beat coast, From South to North the lads stream forth, Oh! we are the Army's boast! And where there's a bitter fight to wage On a field all rent and gory, The whole world knows there the Red Sign goes, Well famed in Britain's story. ""Oh, this is the Song of the Twenty-Ninth"" ""In the East and the West you'll find it;"" ""There's never a fight where the Red Sign goes"" ""But it leaves its mark behind it."" </poem> <poem> In desert sands of alien lands Sleep"
"Arts, Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity from various schools. Baird died May 28, 1887. John B. L. Soule John Babsone Lane Soule (1815–1891) was an American publisher, minister, poet and professor. Originally from Maine, he went to Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and graduated in 1840 from Bowdoin College in Maine. Soule is credited with using the phrase ""Go West, young man, go West"" in an 1851 ""Terre Haute Express"" editorial, 14 years before a similar phrase was famously used by Horace Greeley in reference to western expansion in North America. The phrase is often attributed to Greeley."
"Leonard Feeney Father Leonard Edward Feeney (February 18, 1897 – January 30, 1978) was an American Jesuit priest, poet, lyricist, and essayist. He articulated and defended a strict interpretation of the Roman Catholic doctrine, ""extra Ecclesiam nulla salus"" (""outside the Church there is no salvation""). He took the position that baptism of blood and baptism of desire are unavailing and that therefore no non-Catholics will be saved. Fighting against what he perceived to be the liberalization of Catholic doctrine, he came under ecclesiastical censure. He was described as Boston's homegrown version of Father Charles Coughlin for his antisemitism. Feeney was"
"will replace them on the battlefield. It ends with: <poem> ""Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! ""We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. ""No soldier's paid to kick against his powers. ""We laughed, knowing that better men would come, ""And greater wars; when each proud fighter brags ""He wars on Death - for lives; not men - for flags.""</poem> The Next War (poem) ""The Next War"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It was written in late September 1917, and revised in July 1918. It is no. 160 in ""The Complete Poems and Fragments"". The poem"
"George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, Imperial police officer, and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella ""Animal Farm"" (1945) and the dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949). His non-fiction works, including ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England,"
"/ His son was one."" Still another, ""Not so odd / The Jews chose God."" with its variant ""Not odd, you sod /The Jews chose God"" Even more effective is the anonymous Then again, there is Jim Sleeper's riposte: ""Moses, Jesus, Marx, Einstein, and Freud; No wonder the goyim are annoyed."" William Norman Ewer William Norman Ewer (22 October 188525 January 1977) was a British journalist, remembered mostly now for a few lines of verse. He was known as William or Norman, and by the nickname Trilby. He was prominent writing on foreign affairs for the London ""Daily Herald"". It"
"In 1933, in a notebook marked 'April', Thomas wrote the poem ""And death shall have no dominion"". Trick persuaded him to seek a publisher and in May of that year it was printed in ""New English Weekly"". On 10 September 1936, two years after the release of his first volume of poetry (""18 Poems""), ""Twenty-five Poems"" was published. It revealed Thomas' personal beliefs pertaining to religion and the forces of nature, and included ""And death shall have no dominion"". And death shall have no dominion ""And death shall have no dominion"" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas"
"who shall train the horse to war Shall never pass the polar bar. The beggar's dog and widow's cat, Feed them and thou wilt grow fat. The gnat that sings his summer's song Poison gets from slander's tongue. The poison of the snake and newt Is the sweat of envy's foot. The poison of the honey bee Is the artist's jealousy. The prince's robes and beggar's rags Are toadstools on the miser's bags. A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. It is right it should be so; Man was made for joy and"
"West (short story) ""West"" is a short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, originally published in his short story collection ""The Folk of the Fringe"". Card previously published a shorter version of this story in the collection ""Free Lancers: Alien Stars IV"" (1987). In a post-apocalyptic America, Jamie Teague is traveling from the east coast to his home in the Great Smoky Mountains. Along the way, he comes across a group of people traveling on the highway and headed straight for a group of Bushwhackers that kills anyone who tries to pass. After warning them, Jamie starts to follow"