Joseph Sobran, in Alias Shakespeare, argued that in 1607 William Barksted, a minor poet and playwright, implies in his poem " Mirrha the Mother of Adonis " that Shakespeare was already deceased.

Scholars point to a poem written circa 1620 by a student at Oxford, William Basse, that mentioned the author Shakespeare died in 1616, which is the year Shakespeare deceased and not Edward de Vere.

The first mention of vampires in English literature appears in Robert Southey's monumental oriental epic poem Thalaba the Destroyer ( 1797 ), where the main character Thalaba's deceased beloved Oneiza turns into a vampire, although that occurrence is actually marginal to the story.

Hogg first became familiar with the work of the recently deceased Robert Burns in 1797, after having the poem Tam o ' Shanter read to him.

Ten years after Su Shi's first wife died, Su composed a ( ci ) poem after dreaming of the deceased Fu in the night at Mizhou ( present-day Zhucheng ).

The theme of thievery to which Timon is alluding is also a principal theme of Pale Fire, referring to Charles Kinbote's misappropriation of the poem by the deceased John Shade that forms part of the novel's structure.

* A character by the name of Lenore, thought to be a deceased wife, is central to Poe's poem " The Raven " ( 1845 ).

As the time passed, the poem might be rewritten, but this rewriting was almost never mentioned, to keep from tarnishing the deceased person's legacy.

The final poem is a touching address by the recently deceased Cornelia consoling her husband Paullus and their three children.

The poem describes a funeral arranged for the deceased Phoenix and Turtledove, the latter a traditional emblem of devoted love.

According to these interpretations the poem is an allegory containing an imaginary Catholic requiem to the deceased couples.

In 1866, Johnson had his friend J. C. Butterfield and a poem about his now deceased wife he published around the time of his marriage to music.

In part 3 of the poem, King Jasper dreams of his deceased friend Hebron ( whom Jasper betrayed ) riding on his back.

The cast gathered around comatose Bonnie's hospital bedside and each read a line from a poem Max had found in recently deceased Rev Bob's prayer book.

In stanza 17 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva reciting the poem states that Hœnir, Lóðurr and Odin once found Ask and Embla on land.

In stanza 40 of the poem Völuspá, a völva divulges to Odin that, in the east, an old woman sat in the forest Járnviðr, " and bred there the broods of Fenrir.

" Further into the poem, the völva foretells that Odin will be consumed by Fenrir at Ragnarök:

In the first stanza of the poem, the undead völva reciting the poem calls out for listeners to be silent and refers to Heimdallr:

In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that, among many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a " grove of hot springs ".

Loki is mentioned in stanza 14, the final stanza of the poem, where the völva tells Odin to ride home, to be proud of himself, and that no one else will come visit until " Loki is loose, escaped from his bonds " and the onset of Ragnarök.

In the poem, a völva recites information to Odin.

In stanzas 54 and 55 of the poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that his son Víðarr will avenge Odin's death at Ragnarök by stabbing Fenrir in the heart.

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

The poem starts with the völva requesting silence from " the sons of Heimdallr " ( human beings ) and asking Odin whether he wants her to recite ancient lore.

In reference to Hel, in the poem Völuspá, a völva states that Hel will play an important role in Ragnarök.

In stanza 30 of the poem Völuspá, a völva ( a traveling seeress in Germanic society ) tells Odin that " she saw " valkyries coming from far away who are ready to ride to " the realm of the gods ".

In the poem, a völva recalls that Gullveig was pierced by spears before being burnt three times in the hall of Hárr ( Hárr is one of Odin's various names ), and yet was three times reborn.

In a stanza early in the poem Völuspá, the völva says that early in the mythological timeline, the gods met together at the location of Iðavöllr and constructed a hörgr and a hof ( Henry Adams Bellows and Ursula Dronke here gloss hörgr as " temples "):

In the poem Völuspá, a dead völva recounts the history of the universe and foretells the future to the disguised god Odin, including the death of Thor.

Surtr is mentioned twice in the poem Völuspá, where a völva divulges information to the god Odin.

In the poem Völuspá, a dead völva recounts the history of the universe and foretells the future to the disguised god Odin.

Gróa is also a völva, summoned from beyond the grave, in the Old Norse poem Grógaldr, ( a section of Svipdagsmál ), by her son Svipdagr.

The single mention of Gjallarhorn by name occurs in the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, wherein a völva foresees the events of Ragnarök and the role in which Heimdallr and Gjallarhorn will play at its onset ; Heimdallr will raise his horn and blow loudly.

In the poem Völuspá, a dead völva recounts the history of the universe and foretells the future to the disguised god Odin.

In the poem, the goddess Freyja meets the völva Hyndla and they ride together towards Valhalla.

He foretells that when he is able to leave his mystical prison, " the stars themselves will hide ", an aberration of a line from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, where Satan is musing on his own power.

In the poem Aniara by the Nobel laureate Harry Martinson, the space ship Aniara was travelling at high speed towards the stars of Lyra after having been shipwrecked by collisions with asteroids.

This periplus of a ship from Marseilles on which the poem relies is uncertain in date, but is believed to be possibly from the 6th century BC, not long after the founding of the city.

The ship is mentioned twice in the Poetic Edda and both incidents therein occur in the poem Grímnismál.

Aboard the ship the next day, Key wrote a poem on the back of a letter he had kept in his pocket.

The poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, after an accident is ejected from the solar system and into an existential struggle.

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The poem commemorates an actual incident that occurred in 1798 during the Battle of the Nile aboard the French ship Orient.

The 1738 wreck of the Princess Augusta ( also known as the Palatine ship ) was later immortalized by John Greenleaf Whittier in his 1867 poem, " The Wreck of the Palatine ", among whose verses the words " Circled by waters that never freeze, Beaten by billow and swept by breeze, Lieth the island of Manisees ", have become well-known.

A ship from Ushant ( Ouessant in French ) is mentioned in the poem " Barbara " by French poet Jacques Prévert.

It not only brought the author immediate national attention, but the three-stanza poem also generated enough public sentiment that the historic ship was preserved.

The chambered nautilus is the title and subject of a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, in which he admires the " ship of pearl " and the " silent toil / That spread his lustrous coil / Still, as the spiral grew / He left the past year's dwelling for the new.

Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ), a friend of John Leyden's, was the first to refer to the vessel as a pirate ship, writing in the notes to Rokeby ; a poem ( first published December 1812 ) that the ship was " originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed " and that the apparition of the ship " is considered by the mariners as the worst of all possible omens.

The contemporary 1797 – 98 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, contains a similar account of a ghost ship, which may have been influenced by the tale of the Flying Dutchman.

:" I also suggested the navigation of the ship by the dead men, but do not recollect that I had anything more to do with the scheme of the poem.

This is where Francis Scott Key, while aboard a British ship, wrote a poem which would later become the national anthem of the United States, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

The poem continues on to mention a ship in a storm, and how the sailors aboard are motivated only by greed and ambition, and they will not meet the harmonious end of those who travel the hidden path.

Vickrey argued that the poem is an allegory for the life of a sinner through the metaphor of “ the boat of the mind ,” a metaphor used “ to describe, through the imagery of a ship at sea, a person ’ s state of mind ” ( 251 ).

Falconer was one of the three survivors of a trading ship on voyage from Alexandria to Venice and in 1751 he wrote and published a poem on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales.

* This episode is one of two instances in the Star Trek universe where John Masefield's poem " Sea Fever " (" all I ask is a tall ship ") is quoted by Kirk, here as he reflects his impending obsolescence.

( The ship was named after Russian general Alexander Suvorov, who appears as " Suwarrow " in Lord Byron's epic poem Don Juan.

Thanks in part to the poem, she was saved from being decommissioned and is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat.