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A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! [ 1] " She Walks in Beauty " is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. [ 2] It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On 11 June 1814, Byron attended a party in London.
The poem incomplete. The Sun Rising (also known as The Sunne Rising) is a thirty-line poem (a great example of an inverted aubade) [ 1] with three stanzas published in 1633 [ 2] by the English poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern. The longest lines are at the end of the three ...
The Face upon the Barroom Floor. " The Face upon the Barroom Floor ", aka " The Face on the Floor " and " The Face on the Barroom Floor ", is a poem originally written by the poet John Henry Titus in 1872. A later version was adapted from the Titus poem by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy in 1887 and first published in the New York Dispatch .
Milton's 1645. Poems. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton 's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas. Appearing in late 1645 or 1646 (see 1646 in poetry ), the octavo volume, whose full ...
Ode to a Nightingale. " Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the ...
Locke was born in 1847 in Minauns, [ 2] Callan, County Kilkenny . When in school he used to write verses of poetry on slips of paper and went on to have his first of many poems published in 1863 at the age of 16 years. He is best remembered in Callan for his poem "The Calm Avonree", where a plaque on the Town Hall building is dedicated to the ...
The sixth season of the American dramatic television series Touched by an Angel aired CBS from September 26, 1999 through May 21, 2000, spanning 26 episodes. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series chronicled the cases of two angels, Monica (Roma Downey) and her supervisor Tess (Della Reese), who bring messages from God to various people to help them as they reach ...
The Dark Night of the Soul ( La noche oscura del alma) is a phase of passive purification of the spirit in the mystical development, as described by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross in his treatise Dark Night ( Noche Oscura ), a commentary on his poem with the same name. It follows after the second phase, the ...