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Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden 's ' Stop All the Clocks ' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation.
You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed. " You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed " is a poem by Nigerian writer Gabriel Okara. [ 1] One of the most popular in his oeuvre, it is a frequent feature of anthologies, such as A New Book of African Verse edited by John Reed and Clive Wake ( Heinemann African Writers Series, 1985).
Catullus 16. Catullus 16 or Carmen 16 is a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC). The poem, written in a hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) meter, was considered to be so sexually explicit following its rediscovery in the following centuries that a full English translation was not published until the 20th century. [ 1]
Poem. Written in ballad form, the poem tells of an artist ruined by love; having lost his beloved Madeline to another man, he has turned to drink. Entering a bar, the artist tells his story to the bartender and to the assembled crowd. He then offers to sketch Madeline's face on the floor of the bar but falls dead in the middle of his work.
Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only this, “They are dead.” Then add thereto, “Yet many a better one has died before.” Then, scanning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you Perceive one face that you loved heretofore, It is a spook. None wears the face you knew.
Ozymandias. " Ozymandias " ( / ˌɒziˈmændiəs / o-zee-MAN-dee-əs) [ 1] is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner [ 2] of London. The poem was included the following year in Shelley's collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other ...
Poet Dylan Thomas c. 1937–1938. " Do not go gentle into that good night " is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [ 1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2] the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas visited Florence with his family.
The Green Eye of the Yellow God. The Green Eye of the Yellow God, a 1911 poem by J. Milton Hayes, is a famous example of the genre of "dramatic monologue ", a music hall staple in the early twentieth century. [ 1][ 2] The piece was written for and performed by actor and monologist Bransby Williams. [ 3][ 4] It has often been misattributed to ...