In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the John Betjeman poem " Indoor Games Near Newbury ", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's Britain that also starred Peter Cook and Susannah York.

* India — the humorist and children's author Sukumar Ray, in his nonsense poem " Abol tabol ", had a character ( Uncle ) with a Rube Goldberg-like machine called " Uncle's contraption ".

The poet Derek Mahon mentions Carnmoney Cemetery in his poem " My Wicked Uncle ".

* Tess of the d ' Urbervilles is referenced to in the poem " Man and Dog " by Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas.

The inscription, from Byron's poem Epitaph to a Dog, has become one of his best-known works:

The poem Epitaph to a Dog as inscribed on Boatswain's monument

The title has been adapted and parodied by many writers including Dylan Thomas in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Ogden Nash in his poem Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man, Joseph Heller in Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, A. M. Klein in his poem Portrait of the Poet as Landscape, Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts ' A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man, Grayson Perry's biography Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, punk band Dillinger Four's song Portrait of the Artist as a Fucking Asshole, and William Eastlake's Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses.

* The Duel, aka The Gingham Dog and The Calico Cat hear song version of the poem

* The Duel, aka The Gingham Dog and The Calico Cat hear song version of the poem

Taylor Mali's poem " Falling in Love is Like Owning A Dog ", from his 2002 book What Learning Leaves, is subtitled " an epithalamion.

In Snake Gully, Australia, the monument Dog on the Tuckerbox is inspired by a bullock driver's poem, " Bullocky Bill ", which celebrates the life of a mythical driver's dog that loyally guarded the man's tuckerbox ( lunch box ) until, and long after, the bullocky's death.

Inn even wrote a poem about Higgins called My Little Brown Dog.

The poem is influenced by the ballads of Rudyard Kipling and was often parodied, most famously by Billy Bennett as The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog.

" Victoria's Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote a poem, " Boadicea ," and several ships were named after her.

* Canadian Poet Phyllis Webb references " The Hound of Heaven " in her poem " Poetics Against the Angel of Death.

That poem was put into music in the 1994 album Anatomy of a Poet, by band In the Nursery.

However, after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D. C. and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, the Poet Laureate then in office, Billy Collins, was asked to write a poem to be read in front of a special joint session of Congress.

Bob Eubanks returned as a panelist and was joined by hosts Monty Hall and Tom Kennedy, frequent Gong Show contributors Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr ( who shared a square ), original Hollywood Squares regular Rose Marie, and frequent game show panel members Betty White, Jo Anne Worley, and Nipsey Russell, who performed a poem in his guise of " The Poet Laureate of Television ".

* Terminus ( poem ), Written in 1866 by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803-1882 ) Writer, Poet, Founding member of the American Trancendentalism movement of the 19th century

* Harold Norse has a poem, We Bumped Off Your Friend the Poet, inspired by a review of Ian Gibson's Death of Lorca.

* Arthur Mapes, poet, born and raised in Kendallville, wrote Indiana's state poem and recognized in 1977 as the Poet Laureate for Indiana.

Three Oaks Poet Laureates are asked to write a Flag Day Poem and a winter poem.

Poet Carl Sandburg wrote a poem titled " Crossing Ohio when Poppies Bloom in Ashtabula.

Dymock is renowned for its wild daffodils in the spring, and these were probably the inspiration for the line " Two roads diverged in a yellow wood " in Frost's poem The Road Not Taken, which was a gentle satire on his great friend, and fellow Dymock Poet, Edward Thomas.

He is known to have lived in the dialect region of the Pearl Poet and is thought to have written the poem, St. Erkenwald, which some scholars argue bears stylistic similarities to Gawain.

Poet laureate Sir John Betjeman wrote a poem entitled " The Licorice Fields at Pontefract ".

Poet Phoebe Cary — at whose New York City literary gatherings Dodge was a regular guest — wrote a lengthy poem about it called " The Leak in the Dike ", published posthumously in 1873, which has been widely anthologized in books of poetry for schoolchildren.

* The fourteenth-century poem Cleanness by the Pearl Poet recounts the feast and subsequent events as a warning against spiritual impurity.

* In Cocktail the Pink Squirrel is one of the drinks listed in Brian Flanagan's poem " The Last Barman Poet ".

Poet Hugh Behm-Steinberg's poem " Gridding, after some sentences by Agnes Martin " discusses patterns in the natural world, makes a parallel between writing and painting, and ends with a line about the poet's admiration of Martin's work.

Former United States Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur has suggested that the tale is an allegorical representation of Poe's poem " To Science ".

During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem " Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning " four of his audience members died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council, survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.

During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent, of his poem, Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning, four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, but the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council, survived by gnawing one of his own legs off ...

* The Poet Char March named a poem Myxi about a rabbit in her collection The Thousand Natural Shocks ( 2012 )

Poet Allen Ginsberg claimed his introduction to Artaud, specifically " To Have Done with the Judgement of god ", by Carl Solomon had a tremendous influence on his most famous poem " Howl ".

Anthony Hecht, U. S. Poet Laureate, replied to " Dover Beach " in his poem " The Dover Bitch ".

Poet Han Yu ( 韓愈 ) of the Tang Dynasty, for example, wrote to his nephew who came to see him off after his banishment to the Chao Prefecture in his poem, En Route ( 左遷至藍關示姪孫湘 ):

Poet Liz Lochhead read a poem regarding English-Scottish rivalry in the 16th century.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

At that time, the poem was titled America for publication.

At 23, he published his first poem, “ Hymns to the Gods .” Later work was printed in literary journals like Blackwood ’ s Edinburgh Magazine and local newspapers.

The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).

At the end of the book there is a poem written from the point of view of a veteran comparing World War I to the Trojan War.

At the end of the Heimskringla saga Hákonar saga góða, the poem Hákonarmál by the 10th century skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir is presented.

At the funeral, Matthew recites the poem Funeral Blues (" Stop all the clocks ...") by W. H. Auden, commemorating his relationship with Gareth.

At about the same time, a Life was written about him by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as a poem by Reginald of Canterbury.

He was therefore mentioned in a stanza of the Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. poem, " At the Saturday Club ," where the author dreams he sees some of his friends who are no longer:

At the request of Roman Emperor Diocletian, he became an official professor of rhetoric in Nicomedia, the voyage from Africa described in his poem Hodoeporicum.

At the end of the poem stands a jonquil, a variety of daffodil, Narcissus Jonquilla, which like Narcissus looks sadly down into the water.

At the 1928 Olympics, Kazimierz Wierzyński won the lyric gold medal with his poem Olympic Laurel that included a verse on Nurmi.

At its climax there appeared a poem by Sir Walter Scott, which we were obliged to memorize.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.

In other matches that season, Gloucestershire made its first visit to Old Trafford Cricket Ground in July to play Lancashire and this was the match immortalised by Francis Thompson in his idyllic poem At Lord's.

** At 10: 15 p. m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the French Resistance, indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin.

At the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style in which it was written was a moderately new genre of poetry, and Pope's most ambitious work.

At 17 years old, in his journal Sirius, she published her first poem which could be translated as On his hand are many shiny rings, ( 1907 ) signing it ‘ Anna G .’ She soon became known in St Petersburg's artistic circles, regularly giving public readings.

At the beginning of the poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, a prose narrative says that King Sigmund ( son of Völsung ) and his wife Borghild ( of Brálund ) have a son named Helgi, who they named for Helgi Hjörvarðsson ( the antagonist of the earlier Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar ).

At the end of the poem, the valkyries sing " start we swiftly with steeds unsaddled — hence to battle with brandished swords!

At the end of the Heimskringla saga Hákonar saga góða, the poem Hákonarmál by the 10th-century skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir is presented.

" At Tobolsk, she wrote a melancholy theme for her English tutor, filled with spelling mistakes, about Evelyn Hope, a poem by Robert Browning about a young girl: " When she died she was only sixteen years old ," Anastasia wrote.

At the end of the poem, the final string chord resolves to the tonic, bringing the work to its final, reconciliatory In paradisum.

It featured an introduction by her friend William Butler Yeats, who wrote several pieces based on the legend, including the plays On Baile's Strand ( 1904 ), The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), At the Hawk's Well ( 1917 ), The Only Jealousy of Emer ( 1919 ) and The Death of Cuchulain ( 1939 ), and a poem, Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea ( 1892 ).

At the end of the Heimskringla saga Hákonar saga góða, the poem Hákonarmál ( by the 10th century skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir ) is presented.