"Miles to Go (Before I Sleep) ""Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)"" is a promotional single from Celine Dion's album, ""Let's Talk About Love"" (1997). It was released on 28 September 1998 in Canada only. The was song written and produced by Corey Hart, who also wrote for Dion ""Where Is the Love"" on ""Let's Talk About Love"" and ""Prayer"" on ""A New Day Has Come"". The song is based on the poem ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"" by Robert Frost; the full title is the poem's closing phrase. The recording of ""Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)"""
"got the idea for ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". He wrote the new poem ""about the snowy evening and the little horse as if I'd had a hallucination"" in just ""a few minutes without strain"". The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward Fitzgerald. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme, with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme (another example is the terza rima used in Dante's ""Inferno"".) Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD. The text"
"died in Orange, New Jersey. Ethel Lynn Beers Ethel Lynn Beers (born Ethelinda Eliot; January 13, 1827 – October 11, 1879) was an American poet best known for her patriotic and sentimental Civil War poem ""All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"". Ethelinda Eliot was born in Goshen, New York on January 13, 1827. She was a descendant of Puritan missionary John Eliot. When she began writing and publishing, she signed her name as ""Ethel Lynn"" because she thought her last name was too ""tame and commonplace"". At age 19, she married William H. Beers and appended her married name to"
"Snow-Bound Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem takes place in what is today known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck in their home for a week, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire. Whittier began the poem originally as a personal gift to his niece Elizabeth as a method of remembering the family. Nevertheless, he told publisher James Thomas Fields"
"of the poem describes the thoughts of a lone rider (the speaker), pausing at night in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, ""I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep."" In the early morning of November 23, 1963, Sid Davis of Westinghouse Broadcasting reported the arrival of President John F. Kennedy's casket to the White House. As Frost was one of the President's favorite poets, Davis concluded his report with a passage from this poem but was overcome with"
"focuses on whiteness and its definition, ultimately signaling a vision of a biracial America after the Civil War. Snow-Bound Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem takes place in what is today known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck in their home for a week, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire. Whittier began the poem originally as a personal gift"
"Ethel Lynn Beers Ethel Lynn Beers (born Ethelinda Eliot; January 13, 1827 – October 11, 1879) was an American poet best known for her patriotic and sentimental Civil War poem ""All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"". Ethelinda Eliot was born in Goshen, New York on January 13, 1827. She was a descendant of Puritan missionary John Eliot. When she began writing and publishing, she signed her name as ""Ethel Lynn"" because she thought her last name was too ""tame and commonplace"". At age 19, she married William H. Beers and appended her married name to her poems. Her most famous"
"Those Winter Sundays Those Winter Sundays is a poem written in 1962 by American Robert Hayden (1913 - 1980), while he was teaching as an English professor at Fisk University. The poem is one of Hayden's most recognised works, together with another poem entitled The Middle Passage. The poem is about a son that expresses remembrance of his father, realizing that despite their distance there was love between the two, a kind of love real and intangible, because have been shown by father's efforts with the purpose to improve his son life, and not shown by gift or something else"
"his father's love towards him. This question changes the tone of the poem from nostalgic to regretful. Those Winter Sundays Those Winter Sundays is a poem written in 1962 by American Robert Hayden (1913 - 1980), while he was teaching as an English professor at Fisk University. The poem is one of Hayden's most recognised works, together with another poem entitled The Middle Passage. The poem is about a son that expresses remembrance of his father, realizing that despite their distance there was love between the two, a kind of love real and intangible, because have been shown by father's"
"All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight ""All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"" is a poem by American writer Ethel Lynn Beers. The poem was first published as ""The Picket Guard"" in the ""Harper's Weekly"" issue dated November 30, 1861. It attributed only to ""E.B."" It was reprinted broadly both with that attribution and without, leading to many spurious claims of authorship. On July 4, 1863, ""Harper's Weekly"" told its readers that the poem had been written for the paper by a lady contributor whom it later identified as Beers. The poem was based on newspaper reports of ""all is quiet"
"Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight is a 1914 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It portrays Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Springfield, Illinois, stirred from his eternal sleep, a man, who even in death, is burdened by the tragedies of the modern world. At the time the poem was written, Lindsay was oppressed by knowledge of the blood and death exacted by World War I. The poem was included in Louis Untermeyer's anthology, ""Modern American Poetry"", published in 1919 (see 1919 in poetry). This poem is now used in many schools and districts as"
"""All Quiet on the Western Front"". ""The Picket-Guard"", ""Harper's Weekly"", 1861: <poem> </poem> All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight ""All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"" is a poem by American writer Ethel Lynn Beers. The poem was first published as ""The Picket Guard"" in the ""Harper's Weekly"" issue dated November 30, 1861. It attributed only to ""E.B."" It was reprinted broadly both with that attribution and without, leading to many spurious claims of authorship. On July 4, 1863, ""Harper's Weekly"" told its readers that the poem had been written for the paper by a lady contributor whom it later identified"
"an inspirational figure of the Civil War, as well as United States history. In 1953 composer Roy Harris wrote a chamber cantata based upon this poem, scored for mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, and piano. A setting by Florence Price, for mixed voices, orchestra, and organ, also exists. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight is a 1914 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It portrays Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Springfield, Illinois, stirred from his eternal sleep, a man, who even in death, is burdened by the tragedies of the modern world. At the time the poem"
"reside side by side in the United States. Frost's most famous poem, ""The Road Not Taken"", was inspired by walks with Thomas and Thomas's indecisiveness about which route to take. By August 1914, the village of Dymock in Gloucestershire had become the residence of a number of literary figures, including Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas was a visitor at this time. Thomas immortalised the (now-abandoned) railway station at Adlestrop in a poem of that name after his train made a stop at the Cotswolds station on 24 June 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First"
"Thomas Burnett Swann Thomas Burnett Swann (October 12, 1928 - May 5, 1976) was an American poet, critic and fantasy author. His criticism includes works on the poetry of H.D. and Christina Rossetti. Swann's poetry consists largely of short, whimsical pieces evoking a naive innocence. Many of them were later incorporated into his novels and placed in the mouths of his characters - sometimes the same poem is spoken by two or three different characters in novels set centuries and continents apart. Poets also frequently appear as characters in his novels, always on the side of good: Sappho in ""Wolfwinter"""
"Sam Walter Foss Sam Walter Foss (June 19, 1858 – February 26, 1911) was an American librarian and poet whose works included ""The House by the Side of the Road"" and ""The Coming American."" Foss was born in rural Candia, New Hampshire. He lost his mother at age four, worked on his father's farm and went to school in the winter. He graduated from Brown University in 1882, and would be considered illustrious enough to warrant having his name inscribed on the mace. Beginning in 1898, he served as librarian at the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts. He married a"
"Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Snow Storm, or Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, (full title: Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the ""Ariel"" left Harwich) is a painting by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) from 1842. Though panned by many contemporary critics, critic John Ruskin commented in 1843 that it was ""one of the very grandest statements of sea-motion, mist and light, that has ever been put on canvas"". An inscription on the"
"Poems by Edgar Allan Poe This article lists all known poems by American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849), listed alphabetically with the date of their authorship in parentheses. An unpublished 9-line poem written circa 1829 for Poe's cousin Elizabeth Rebecca Herring (the acrostic is her first name, spelled out by the first letter of each line). It was never published in Poe's lifetime. James H. Whitty discovered the poem and included it in his 1911 anthology of Poe's works under the title ""From an Album."" It was also published in Thomas Ollive"
"addition of ancient texts. Morten Lauridsen's ""A Winter Come"" (1967) is a setting of six poems of Howard Moss for high voice and piano, while Francis Thorne's ""Nature Studies: Three Poems of Howard Moss"" (1981) is for mezzo-soprano, flute and harp. Howard Moss Howard Moss (January 22, 1922 – September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist and critic. He was poetry editor of ""The New Yorker"" magazine from 1948 until his death and he won the National Book Award in 1972 for ""Selected Poems"". Moss was born in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan, where he"
"died on 13 December 1997, survived by his wife and their four children. He was buried at the Place of Heroes in the Botanical Gardens in Georgetown, an honour that had previously been reserved for Heads of State. His collection ""Poems of Resistance"", published in 1954, established his reputation as a powerful moral and political voice. Long seen as primarily a poet who touched on themes of politics, resistance, and protest, his later poems were often highly personal. He is best known, however, for a powerful protest poem of the 1960s, ""I come from the nigger yard of yesterday"". At"
"is a tour of whistle stops under a strobe light"". Kushner died in August 2015 at the age of 84. Bill Kushner William Kushner (1931 in Bronx, New York – August 15, 2015 in New York City, New York) was an American poet associated with the New York School. He is the author of the following books of verse; Night Fishing (1980), Head (1986), Love Uncut (1990), He Dreams of Waters (2000), That April (2000), In Sunsetland with You (2007), Walking After Midnight (2011 Spuyten Duyvil) and several other volumes. His poem ""Great"" was included in Best American Poetry 2002."
"Frost at Midnight Frost at Midnight is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in February 1798. Part of the conversation poems, the poem discusses Coleridge's childhood experience in a negative manner and emphasizes the need to be raised in the countryside. The poem expresses hope that Coleridge's son, Hartley, would be able to experience a childhood that his father could not and become a true ""child of nature"". The view of nature within the poem has a strong Christian element in that Coleridge believed that nature represents a physical presence of God's word and that the poem is steeped"
"is sincere, original and marked by delicate fancy, and felicity of form; and his songs have given him a high and permanent place among American lyric poets. His 1857 poem ""Roses and Thorns"", in a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev, was set for voice and piano by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as ""Legend"", No. 5 from ""Sixteen Songs for Children"", Op. 54. The song, in turn, was the basis of Anton Arensky's Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a, for string orchestra. Richard Henry Stoddard Richard Henry Stoddard (July 2, 1825May 12, 1903) was an American critic and poet. Richard"
"Birches (poem) ""Birches"" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). It was included in Frost's third collection of poetry ""Mountain Interval"", which was published in 1916. Consisting of 59 lines, it is one of Robert Frost's most anthologized poems. Along with other poems that deal with rural landscape and wildlife, it shows Frost as a nature poet. Frost's writing of this poem was inspired by another similar poem ""Swinging on a Birch-tree"" by American poet Lucy Larcom and his own experience of swinging birch trees at his childhood. Frost once said ""it was almost sacrilegious climbing a birch"
"as the bookend quote of Criminal Minds season 6 episode 15, “Today I Do.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include ""Poems of Passion"" and ""Solitude"", which contains the lines ""Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone"". Her autobiography, ""The Worlds and I"", was published in 1918, a year before her death. Ella Wheeler was born in 1850 on a farm in Johnstown, Wisconsin, east of Janesville, the youngest of four children. The family later moved north of Madison, after losing its"
"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, a New England farmer, contacts his neighbor in the spring to rebuild the stone wall between their two farms. As the men work, the narrator questions the purpose of a wall ""where"
"John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings as well as his book ""Snow-Bound"". John Greenleaf Whittier was born to John and Abigail (Hussey) at their rural homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1807. His middle name is thought to mean 'feuillevert' after his Huguenot forebears. He grew up on the farm in"
"Anthony Walton (poet) Anthony Walton (born 1960) is an American poet and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of a chapbook of poems, ""Cricket Weather"" and for his non-fiction work ""Mississippi: An American Journey."" His work has appeared widely in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including ""The New Yorker"", ""Kenyon Review"", ""Oxford American"", and ""Rainbow Darkness"". He is currently a professor and the writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Walton grew up in Aurora, Illinois. He studied at the University of Notre Dame and received an M.F.A. from Brown University. In 1989, Walton wrote an essay for"
"Theodore Roethke Theodore Huebner Roethke ( ; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. Roethke's work is characterized by its introspection, rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book ""The Waking"", and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for ""Words for the Wind"" and posthumously in 1965 for ""The Far Field"". In the November 1968 edition of ""The Atlantic Monthly"", former U.S. Poet Laureate and author"
"Theodore Roethke Theodore Huebner Roethke ( ; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. Roethke's work is characterized by its introspection, rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book ""The Waking"", and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for ""Words for the Wind"" and posthumously in 1965 for ""The Far Field"". In the November 1968 edition of ""The Atlantic Monthly"", former U.S. Poet Laureate and author"
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ""It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"" (1849), sometimes rendered as ""It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"", is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. Sears' lyrics are most commonly set to ""Noel"", adapted by Arthur Sullivan from an English melody (in Commonwealth countries), or to ""Carol"", composed by Richard Storrs Willis (in the United States). Edmund Sears composed the five-stanza poem in common metre doubled during 1849. It first appeared on December 29, 1849, in the ""Christian Register"" in Boston, Massachusetts. Sears served the"
"of the 1997 National Poetry Series and published by Norton. Robert Gibb (poet) Robert Gibb (born September 5, 1946) is an American poet. Gibb won the 1997 National Poetry Series Open Competition for ""The Origins of Evening"". It, along with his next two books, comprise what Gibb calls ""The Homestead Trilogy"", a nearly 100-poem cycle probing the fading industrial history and culture of America's ""Steel City"". He was born to a family of steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a mill town six miles south of downtown Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. The town was home to Andrew Carnegie's famous Homestead Steel"
"November Woods November Woods is a tone poem by Arnold Bax, written in 1917. Ostensibly a musical depiction of nature, the work conveys something of the composer's turbulent emotional state arising from the disintegration of his marriage and his love affair with the pianist Harriet Cohen. According to the composer, the piece is not programmatic, but evokes mood rather than painting a picture or telling a story. The work was completed in November 1917, and received its first performance in Manchester, on 18 November 1920, given by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hamilton Harty. In ""The Manchester Guardian"", Samuel Langford"