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"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy child's blinking ...
Summary. Night is a poem that describes two contrasting places: Earth, where nature runs wild, and Heaven, where predation and violence are nonexistent. It is influenced by a passage from the Old Testament: Isaiah 11:6-8 "The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together ...
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.
At bedtime, Nick takes back a pillow he said that Alexander could keep, Alexander's Mickey Mouse night light burns out, he bites his tongue, and the family cat chooses to sleep with Anthony. Throughout the book, there is a running gag where Alexander expresses his longing to move to Australia, believing that life is better there. His mother ...
"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. Among the guests was Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron's first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot ...
The Alan Parsons Project's album Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe opens with an instrumental homage to the poem. Its 1987 re-release included a narration by Orson Welles. The Propaganda album A Secret Wish, released in 1985, opens with the track "Dream Within A Dream". The poem is recited in spoken-word form by vocalist Susanne ...
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).
Auguries of Innocence. " Auguries of Innocence " is a poem by William Blake, from a notebook of his now known as the Pickering Manuscript. [ 1] It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist 's biography of Blake. The poem contains a series of paradoxes which speak of ...