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Publication date. 1910 (114 years ago)(1910) " If— " is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [ 1 ] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [ 2 ] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in ...
Visits to St Elizabeths is a poem by Elizabeth Bishop modelled on the English nursery rhyme This is the house that Jack built. The poem refers to the confinement between 1945 and 1958 of Ezra Pound in St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. The nursery rhyme style gives an unusual effect to the strange or unsettling descriptions of a ...
Aurora Leigh. Aurora Leigh is an 1856 verse novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number, the number of the Sibylline Books). It is a first-person narration, from the point of view of Aurora; its other heroine, Marian Erle, is an abused self-taught child of itinerant ...
Publication date. 4 March 1931. "Lifesaver" (1931) is a poem by Australian poet Elizabeth Riddell. [1] It was originally published in The Bulletin on 4 March 1931, [2] as by "Elizabeth Richmond", and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]
The poem may have been brought to his attention by his wife, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Consort). [1] The book The Servant Queen and the King She Serves, [2] published for Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday, says that it was the young Princess Elizabeth herself, aged 13, who handed the poem to her father. The book's foreword was written by ...
Invictus. Portrait of William Ernest Henley by Leslie Ward, published in Vanity Fair, 26 November 1892. " Invictus " is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses, in the section titled "Life and Death ...
[8] In an 1829 letter, Neal told Whittier to "Persevere, and I am sure you will have your reward in every way." [9] Reading Neal's 1828 novel Rachel Dyer inspired Whittier to weave New England witchcraft lore into his own stories and poems. [10] Garrison gave Whittier the job of editor of the National Philanthropist, a Boston-based temperance ...
English. " 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 ...