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  1. W. B. Yeats. 1865 –. 1939. Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths. Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

  2. Sep 27, 2021 · Most famously, the Peanuts comics creator Charles M. Schulz often drew the dog Snoopy typing “It was a dark and stormy night” on his typewriter. Is overusing this line terrifying or horrifying to you? Learn the difference between terror and horror to figure it out.

  3. Nov 6, 2018 · ‘Song of Myself’: A Poem by Walt Whitman – Interesting Literature. ‘Song of Myself’ is perhaps the definitive achievement of the great nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman (1819-92), so we felt that it was a good choice for the second in our ‘post a poem a day’ feature.

  4. A. E. Housman (1859-1936) was one of the greatest classicists of his age, and was also, following the success of his (self-published) first volume of poems, A Shropshire Lad (1896), a hugely popular poet.

    • There is sweet music here that softer falls. Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls. Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
    • Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest: why should we toil alone,
    • Lo! in the middle of the wood, The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud. With winds upon the branch, and there. Grows green and broad, and takes no care,
    • Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea. Death is the end of life; ah, why. Should life all labour be? Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,
  5. Wordsworth’s ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’ tells of the power and influence of nature in guiding life and morality. William Wordsworth is one of the most renowned and influential Romantic poets. He was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

  6. This is a powerful Browning poem that shows the darker side of human nature. Poem Analyzed by Allisa Corfman. Degree in Secondary Education/English and Teacher of World Literature and Composition. Robert Browning’s poem, ‘Porphyria’s Lover,’ opens up with a classic setting. It’s a stormy evening.

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