"She Walks in Beauty ""She Walks in Beauty"" is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1813 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life; while at a ball, Byron saw Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, the wife of his cousin, Robert Wilmot. He was struck by her unusual beauty, and the next morning the poem was written. It is thought that she was the first inspiration for his unfinished epic poem about Goethe, a personal hero of his. In this unpublished work,"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" (also commonly known as ""Daffodils"") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a ""long belt"" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account), it was first published in 1807 in ""Poems in Two Volumes"", and a revised version was published in 1815. In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio 4 ""Bookworm"" programme"
"in the song ""Daffodils,"" which concludes the first act. Lippa mentioned this in a video created by Broadway.com in the same year. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" (also commonly known as ""Daffodils"") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a ""long belt"" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account), it was first published in 1807 in ""Poems in Two"
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ""It is a beauteous evening, calm and free"" is a sonnet by William Wordsworth written at Calais in August 1802. It was first published in the collection ""Poems, in Two Volumes"" in 1807, appearing as the nineteenth poem in a section entitled 'Miscellaneous sonnets'. The sonnet describes an evening walk on the beach with his nine-year-old daughter Caroline Vallon. Wordsworth reflects that if his young daughter is seemingly unaffected by the majesty of the scene it is because, being young, she is naturally at one with nature. Until that Friday 21 May"
"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"
"Clouds without Water Clouds without Water is a poetry collection by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), an English author, occult magician, mountaineer and founder of the religious philosophy of Thelema. ""Clouds without Water"" was one of many of Crowley's eccentric works published in his lifetime and was first issued in 1909. The title comes from a passage in Jude 1:13 which is quoted at the beginning of the book: ""Clouds they are without water; carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering"
"to determine the nation's favourite poems, ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" came fifth. Often anthologised, the poem is commonly seen as a classic of English romantic poetry, although ""Poems in Two Volumes"", in which it first appeared, was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries. The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. He would draw on this to compose ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk: At the time he wrote the poem, Wordsworth was living"
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways ""She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in ""Lyrical Ballads"", 1800, a volume of Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement. The poem is the best known of Wordsworth's series of five works which comprise his ""Lucy"" series, and was a favorite amongst early readers. It was composed both as a meditation on his own feelings of loneliness and loss, and as"
"On 20 April 1919, a silent black and white movie was released in the US entitled ""The Cloud"" which was ""a visual poem featuring clouds and landscapes in accompaniment to the words of Shelley's poem 'The Cloud'."" The film was directed by W.A. Van Scoy and produced by the Post Nature Pictures company. The Cloud (poem) ""The Cloud"" is a major 1820 poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. ""The Cloud"" was written during late 1819 or early 1820, and submitted for publication on 12 July 1820. The work was published in the 1820 collection ""Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in"
"To a Skylark ""To a Skylark"" is a poem completed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June 1820 and published accompanying his lyrical drama ""Prometheus Unbound"" by Charles and James Collier in London. It was inspired by an evening walk in the country near Livorno, Italy, with his wife Mary Shelley, and describes the appearance and song of a skylark they come upon. Mary Shelley described the event that inspired Shelley to write ""To a Skylark"": ""In the Spring we spent a week or two near Leghorn (Livorno) ... It was on a beautiful summer evening while wandering among the"
"of the book. Clouds without Water Clouds without Water is a poetry collection by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), an English author, occult magician, mountaineer and founder of the religious philosophy of Thelema. ""Clouds without Water"" was one of many of Crowley's eccentric works published in his lifetime and was first issued in 1909. The title comes from a passage in Jude 1:13 which is quoted at the beginning of the book: ""Clouds they are without water; carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their"
"William Wordsworth whose poems were most famous and influential. Wordsworth's poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"", inspired by the sight of daffodils on the shores of Ullswater, remains one of the most famous in the English language. Out of his long life of eighty years, sixty were spent amid its lakes and mountains, first as a schoolboy at Hawkshead, and afterwards living in Grasmere (1799–1813) and Rydal Mount (1813–50). Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey became known as the Lake Poets. The poet and his wife lie buried in the churchyard of Grasmere and very near to them are the remains"
"was also the subject of the 1820 poem ""The Cloud"" published as part of the ""Prometheus Unbound"" collection. An 1824 poem by Shelley is also sometimes published under the title ""Mutability"". It is also published with its first line as title. The flower that smiles today All that we wish to stay, What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Virtue, how frail it is! Love, how it sells poor bliss But we, though soon they fall, Survive their joy and all Whilst skies are blue and bright, Whilst eyes that change ere night Whilst yet the calm"
"by stating that in poems such as ""Beatrice Passes"" (from ""Dreams and Fantasies"") her ""real poetic gift is best displayed"". ""The Scotsman"" of 23 March 1925 said, ""Miss Agatha Christie, in her book of poems, ""The Road of Dreams"", reveals a pleasing lyrical sense. The movement of her verse is light and graceful, and its substance, though not of the 'thought compact,' is not empty. Such lines, however – and there are a few – as:– are banal. Flow in verse is not everything. A stronger note is struck in some of the ballads, for instance, ""The Ballad of the"
"Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day ""Lines Composed In A Wood On A Windy Day"" is a poem by Anne Brontë. Brontë's love of the sea is expressed in this poem. In it, the sea is portrayed as ""the great liberator"". The line ""the long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing"" and the footnote she wrote at the bottom of the poem reveals that Brontë ""loved wild weather, as she loved the sea, and hard country and snow"". The poem further indicates the power and spiritual affect of the wind. The errors in punctuation on lines"
"The sun departs behind the mountains. In all the valleys the evening descends with its shadow, full cooling. O look! Like a silver boat sails the moon in the watery blue heaven. I sense the fine breeze stirring behind the dark pines. The brook sings out clear through the darkness. The flowers pale in the twilight. The earth breathes, in full rest and sleep. All longing now becomes a dream. Weary men traipse homeward to sleep; forgotten happiness and youth to rediscover. The birds roost silent in their branches. The world falls asleep. It blows coolly in the shadows of"
"Renascence (poem) ""Renascence"" (also ""Renasance"") is a 1912 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, credited with introducing her to the wider world, and often considered one of her finest poems. The poem is a 200+ line lyric poem, written in the first person, broadly encompassing the relationship of an individual to humanity and nature. The narrator is contemplating a vista from a mountaintop. Overwhelmed by nature, and thoughts of human suffering, the narrator empathetically feels the deaths of others, and feels pressed into a grave. Friendly rain brings the narrator back to joy in life—the rebirth, or ""renascence"", of the"
"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"
"light of its previous 'prelapsarian' state. Reason (the 'starry pole') and the Sea of Time and Spece (the 'watr'ry shore') ""are there only till the break of day if Earth would consent to leave 'the slumberous mass'"" The illustration shows a big cloud in a night sky and scattered stars. The text is placed on the cloud. There is a nude female with long hair and a halo above her head, reclining on a couch on a cloud below the text. This is probably the image of Earth addressed by ""the voice of the Bard"". Coleridge marked the poem with"
"like of a spirit has power to travel the land unseen. At the morning of the day following the poor woman stood at her cottage door, facing out to the mountains are a long journey from that place. Didn't she see a great wonder: A piece fell clean from the hillside and from it came a cow, white as the driven snow, she travelling faster nor the wind. The widow seen all as clear as we do be regarding the rising of the sun in the Eastern sky. What- ever power was laid on her eyes the distance was no"
"one such stroll in the evening sun, the lyrical beauty of the countryside and the coastline engaging Elgar's interest. These events explain the words ""Venice and Tintagel"" inscribed at the bottom of Elgar's score. Another known inspiration for the piece is the poem ""Song"" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the last poems published before his death in 1822: <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;"">Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day 'Tis since thou art fled away.</poem> The first line of this first stanza is written"
"natural philosophy dispelled so many fond illusions concerning the mystery of the clouds, that she almost regretted knowledge. Her early education was varied, and her country life made her familiar with nature. Her father died while she was in college. Her education occurred at Forest Hill Seminary, near Memphis, Tennessee. It was here, after her father's death, that her poetry first attracted public attention. Not returning to school after the father's death, that she started writing her first verses, the subject being ""Night."" She was sixteen years old when her first poem was published. While still a school girl, she"
"The Witch of Atlas The Witch of Atlas is a major poetic work of the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley written in 1820 and published posthumously in 1824 in the ""Posthumous Poems"" collection. The poem was written in 78 ottava rima stanzas during the period when ""Prometheus Unbound"" and ""The Cloud"" were written and reflects similar themes. The theme of the poem is a quest for the perfect union. British composer Sir Granville Bantock wrote a tone poem for orchestra based on the Shelley poem in 1902, ""The Witch of Atlas: Tone Poem for Orchestra No.5 after Shelley"", which"
"Ariel (poem) ""Ariel"" is a poem written by the American poet Sylvia Plath. It was written on her thirtieth birthday, October 27, 1962, and published posthumously in the collection ""Ariel"" in 1965, of which it is the namesake. Despite its ambiguity, it is literally understood to describe an early morning horse-ride towards the rising sun. Scholars and literary critics have applied various methods of interpretation to ""Ariel"". ""Ariel"" is composed of ten three-line stanzas with an additional single line at the end, and follows an unusual slanted rhyme scheme. Literary commentator William V. Davis notes a change in tone and"
"McCrae, a poet whose words Horace Keats had set to music. Most of Keats' compositions date from his return to Australia in 1932, having been encouraged by Frank Hutchens. The poets whose words he set in song included William Blake, Christopher Brennan, Lord Byron, John Drinkwater, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hugh McCrae, Kenneth Mackenzie, Shaw Neilson, John Cowper Powys, Christina Rossetti and Oscar Wilde. His best-known song is ""She Walks in Beauty"" (1939), to words by Byron. Although Keats did not have the opportunity of meeting Christopher Brennan before the latter's death in 1932, the executors of Brennan's estate granted Keats"
"The Cloud (poem) ""The Cloud"" is a major 1820 poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. ""The Cloud"" was written during late 1819 or early 1820, and submitted for publication on 12 July 1820. The work was published in the 1820 collection ""Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts, With Other Poems"" by Charles and James Ollier in London in August 1820. The work was proof-read by John Gisborne. There were multiple drafts of the poem. The poem consists of six stanzas in anapestic or antidactylus meter, a foot with two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable. The cloud"
"collection of poems, ""...presents a new kind of Romanticism that refuses to acknowledge boundaries between nature and the observing self."" Her creativity is stirred by nature, and Oliver, an avid walker, often pursues inspiration on foot. Her poems are filled with imagery from her daily walks near her home: shore birds, water snakes, the phases of the moon and humpback whales. In ""Long life"" she says ""[I] go off to my woods, my ponds, my sun-filled harbor, no more than a blue comma on the map of the world but, to me, the emblem of everything."" She commented in a"
"evening star, of the sun, the planets, and the moon; which circle he regarded as a mixture of the two primordial elements. The fragments read: Parmenides is one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophers. His single known work, a poem conventionally titled ""On Nature"", has survived only in fragments. Approximately 160 verses remain today from an original total that was probably near 800. The poem was originally divided into three parts: The proem is a narrative sequence in which the narrator travels ""beyond the beaten paths of mortal men"" to receive a revelation from an unnamed goddess (generally"
"Midnight poem The midnight poem is a fragment of Greek lyric poetry preserved by Hephaestion. It is possibly by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, and is fragment 168 B in Eva-Maria Voigt's edition of her works. It is also sometimes known as PMG fr. adesp. 976 – that is, fragment 976 from Denys Page's ""Poetae Melici Graeci"", a fragment not attributed to any author (""fragmenta adespota""). The poem, four lines describing a woman alone at night, is one of the best-known surviving pieces of Greek lyric poetry. Long thought to have been composed by Sappho, the poem is one of"
"the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day.</poem> Footnotes Bibliography Joy Davidman Helen Joy Davidman (18 April 1915 – 13 July 1960) was an American poet and writer. Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature in 1935. For her book of poems, ""Letter to a Comrade"", she won the Yale"
"a number of poems. Among the English romantic movement writers none is better known than William Wordsworth's short 1804 poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"" which has become linked in the popular mind with the daffodils that form its main image. Wordsworth also included the daffodil in other poems. Yet the description given of daffodils by his sister, Dorothy is just as poetic, if not more so, just that her poetry was prose and appears almost an unconscious imitation of the first section of the Homeric ""Hymn to Demeter"" (see Greek culture, above). Among their contemporaries, Keats refers to"
"of the real Alice's name: Alice Pleasance Liddell. <poem style=""margin-left: 2em""> A boat, beneath a sunny sky Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July - Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear - Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming"
"as such."" The poem consists of twenty-one stanzas made up of five lines each. The first four lines are metered in trochaic trimeter, the fifth in iambic hexameter, also called Alexandrine. The rhyme scheme of each stanza is ABABB. The poem begins with a description of the skylark high above in the sky. The bird is characterized as a “Spirit”. Its song is described as “unpremeditated art”. The skylark is able to sing while it ascends overhead. Its flight is compared to a “cloud of fire”. It soars across the descending sun like an “unbodied joy”. It flies in the"