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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).
A Day-dream. ('My eyes make pictures,' &c.) "My eyes make pictures, when they are shut:" 1802 1828 Answer to a Child's Question "Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove," 1802 1802, October 16 The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife "If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light!" 1801-02 1802, October 19 The Happy ...
The final line 'for your boat is floating on clear water' is explained as meaning 'everything is going well for you for now (but soon things will change; the sea will grow rough)'. [92] The phrase liquida ... aqua 'clear water' in line 72 links this poem with 1.9.12 and 1.9.50 where the phrase recurs. The image of Tibullus escorting Delia at ...
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.
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Works and Days. Works and Days ( Ancient Greek: Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι, romanized : Érga kaì Hēmérai) [ a] is a didactic poem written by ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines. At its center, the Works and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in ...
First they came ... Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. " First they came ... " ( German: Zuerst kamen sie ...) is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond ...