Among the longest single poems in American literature, Clarel, published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies.

The longest sequence was written to Tommaso dei Cavalieri ( c. 1509 – 1587 ), who was 23 years old when Michelangelo met him in 1532, at the age of 57 ; these make up the first large sequence of poems in any modern tongue addressed by one man to another, predating Shakespeare's sonnets to the fair youth by fifty years:

It is by far his longest poem ; unlike Alice, which is prose with occasional poems within the text, the Snark rhymes from start to end.

Ariosto's work is 38, 736 lines long in total, making it one of the longest poems in European literature.

His poems, the longest of which is La Religion vengée ( Parma, 1794 ), have no merit ; they were collected and published after his death ( Paris, 1797, etc.

His poems and volumes of essays, such as From a College Window, and The Upton Letters ( essays in the form of letters ) were famous in his day ; and he left one of the longest diaries ever written, some four million words.

The longest and most important of them are the mock poems On the Expedition of the Highland Host who came to destroy the western shires in winter 1678 and On the clergie when they met to consult about taking the Test in the year 1681.

A number of Montgomerie ’ s poems can be assigned to the first half of the 1580s, including sonnets, court songs, and the first, unfinished version of his longest work, the allegorical Cherrie and the Slae.

The poem has a total of 373 lines, and about 2400 characters, which makes it one of the longest poems dating from Ancient China.

Having died at the age of 101, he was among the longest living writers in Croatian history with generations having to study his poems in school.

One of the longest and perhaps best poems in Rimbaud's œuvre, it opens with the following quatrain:

* Kochan ( 1984 ), A limited edition chapbook of nine poems, two of which were later republished in The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992 ; seven of the poems have not been otherwise published, including " Nights and Four Thousand Mornings ," the longest poem Gilbert has published

Most of the pieces are fairly short — the longest, " A Rapture ," is 166 lines, and well over half are under 50 lines.

Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse called it the hardest ball he had ever seen hit without benefit of the wind, while " Cubs ' batting coach batting coach Rogers Hornsby ," reported Les Biederman of The Sporting News, " said it was the longest he ever witnessed and manager Bob Scheffing agreed it was No. 1 in his book.

In her " capitalism peace theory ," Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history — a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world — from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, with the exceptions of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 ), the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), and the American Civil War ( 1860-1863 ), which, notably, occurred in perhaps the most liberal economy in the world at the peak of the industrial revolution.

The name chosen for the new capital, Belmopan, is derived from the union of two words: " Belize ", the name of the longest river in the country, and " Mopan ," one of the rivers in this area, which empties into the Belize River.

The longest, " Summertime in England ", lasted fifteen and one-half minutes and ended with the words ," Can you feel the silence ?".

The longest version is seen in " The Actors ' Home ," an episode of their filmed TV series, in which " Who's on First?

The Great Northern planned to extend its line to New Rockford and in 1914 began building the " Madson Grade ," one of the longest dirt filled railroad grades in the country about a mile west of town.

" Sammy's Visit ," first broadcast in February 1972, is a particularly notable episode, whose famous episode-ending scene produced the longest sustained audience laughter in the history of the show.

A piece of exquisite baroque prose that George Saintsbury called " the longest piece, perhaps, of absolutely sublime rhetoric to be found in the prose literature of the world ," Hydriotaphia displays an astonishing command of English prose rhythm and diction.

" He led the way for the longest period of successful radical government ever, which was continued by Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George ," Lord Steel said.

" This is the longest recorded migration for a songbird as far as we know ," said Dr Schmaljohann.

The Log Flume was the longest log ride constructed in the world at that time and it was accompanied by a giant " Conestoga Wagon ," an over-sized log cabin restaurant called " Best of the West " and a huge Western Fortress, in the park's Rootin ' Tootin ' Rip Roaring section.

One of the longest selling novelty songs of " Rock and Roll " is Zane Ashton's whimsical " He Was A Mean Dragon ," recorded in 1961 on Lan-Cet Records and still being sold on the internet today.

Economy: In this first and longest chapter, Thoreau outlines his project: a two-year, two-month, and two-day stay at a cozy, " tightly shingled and plastered ," English-style 10 ' × 15 ' cottage in the woods near Walden Pond.

Two of the longest running columns in the magazine are Salim Muwakkil's " The Third Coast ," covering race relations, and Susan Douglas's " Back Talk ," a critical review of the mass media.

The longest, and most comprehensive poem is a " Kedushah ," which summons all the universe to praise God with rejoicing, and which terminates, curiously enough, in Ps.

Ryan made SAS history with the " longest escape and evasion by an SAS trooper or any other soldier ," to make it to Syria, covering, more than SAS trooper Jack Sillito had in the Sahara Desert in 1942.

The album continued the band's experiments with unorthodox song structures, with " Illuminate Eliminate ," at 9: 40, the band's second longest track ( behind Grand Declaration of War ’ s " Completion in Science of Agony ( Part I )" at 9: 44 ).

The Seattle " snowpack ," which began accumulating on December 13, did not melt until December 27, the longest period of time snow had remained on the ground in Seattle since the mid-1980s.

Marmion's first known play was Holland's Leaguer, produced in 1631 at the Salisbury Court theatre and acted six days in succession, " one of the longest known in the Elizabethan, Jacobean, or Caroline theatre ," though perhaps due more to the meagerness of the repertory of Prince Charles's Men than to the play's unusual popularity.

They also obtained during these early years " Spooky ," a great horned owl who became a symbol or mascot of the Museum ; he lived to age 38, the longest any great horned owl is known to have lived.

Papadiamantis ' longest works were the serialized novels " The Gypsy Girl ," " The Emigrant ," and " Merchants of Nations.

After successfully standing for re-election five times, and becoming Chicago's longest serving mayor, Richard M. Daley announced he would step down at the end of his final term in 2011.

The isotope of einsteinium with the longest half life, einsteinium-252 ( half life 471. 7 days ) would be more suitable for investigation of physical properties, but it has proven far more difficult to produce and is available only in minute quantities, and not in bulk.

It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.

* 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.

From 1850 to 1853, Millet worked on Harvesters Resting ( Ruth and Boaz ), a painting he would consider his most important, and on which he worked the longest.

Goalkeeper Tony Meola would record the longest shutout streak in MLS history at 681 minutes.

Ultimately, it would be A Shot in the Dark, three years later, which would boast the longest run.

" This designation was chosen because the bridge would not be the world's longest using another way of measuring suspension bridges, the length of the center span between the towers ; at the time that title belonged to the Golden Gate Bridge, which has a longer center span.

A similar warning against papal hubris made on this occasion was the traditional exclamation " Annos Petri non videbis ", reminding the newly crowned pope that he would not live to see his rule lasting as long as that of St. Peter, who according to tradition headed the church for 35 years and has thus far been the longest reigning pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

Writing 10 years later, Cubs ' shortstop Ernie Banks would call it the longest ball he'd seen hit at Wrigley Field ; according to Banks, the consensus among the Cubs was that " it must have traveled more than 500 feet ( 152. 4 m ) on its trip into Waveland Avenue.

" Clemente himself, having walked off the distance from the centerfield fence to the back of the stadium, underneath the scoreboard, and then been directed to the landing spot of the ball, estimated the distance at 565 feet ( 172. 2 m ), the longest he would ever recall hitting.

If lexicographic ordering is used to sort variable-length integer representations, then the representations of the numbers from 1 to 10 would be output as 1, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, as if the shorter keys were left-justified and padded on the right with blank characters to make the shorter keys as long as the longest key for the purpose of determining sorted order.

McGraw would go on and manage the Giants for three decades, one of the longest and most successful tenures in professional sports.

That would be his longest gain of the day.

At three hours, twenty-seven minutes ( 207 minutes ), Seven Samurai would be the longest picture of Kurosawa's career.

Economic growth would continue until the Late 2000s recession marking the longest uninterrupted period of economic growth in history.

It would be the longest game until May 4, 2000.

For example, when analysing an algorithm, it may be possible to find the longest possible path through the algorithm ( by considering the maximum number of loops, for instance ) even if it is not possible to determine the exact input that would generate this path ( indeed, such an input may not exist ).

The jumps would be given a point value and the longest jump would be combined with their cross-country time to create a score.

Although most are less than long, one specimen has been estimated at, which would make it the longest animal ever found.

Opposition to the Lend-Lease bill was strongest among isolationist Republicans in Congress, who feared that the measure would be " the longest single step this nation has yet taken toward direct involvement in the war abroad.

Middle East Development LLC has issued a notice to construct a bridge passing across the Red Sea that would be the longest suspended passing in the world.

In Poem Without a Hero, the longest and one of the best known of her works, written many decades later, she would recall this as a blessed time of her life.