The original lyrics consisted of eleven verses but for the national anthem, the poem was shortened to the first verse and the last verse.

Her graveside service in Valhalla, NY, consisted only of a reading of the poem " If " before Rand was buried beside her husband.

One bid was from a lawyer with no financial backing ; another was from actress Mae West which consisted of nothing more than a poem and promise to divert the river.

Berry's first published poetry book consisted of a single poem, the elegiac November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three ( 1964 ), initiated and illustrated by Ben Shahn, commemorating the death of John F. Kennedy.

It consisted of a poem called " Lumman Tige Srafain ", about a warrior named Lumann who possessed a wonderful shield and who, according to the poem, died of his wounds at Tech Srafáin.

His compositions, which remained popular for some years after his death in 1884, consisted mainly of ballads ( such as his musical adaptation of Charles Kingsley's poem, " Three Fishers "); but his importance in the history of music is owing to his exertion in popularizing musical education, and his persistent opposition to the Tonic sol-fa system, which had a success he could not foresee.

Judging from the large number of surviving manuscripts ( twelve complete and seventeen partial ), it must have been very popular, and it was twice continued in the 13th century: the first addition, " Bavarian continuation ", comprised 800 verses, while the second, the " Swabian continuation ", which brought the poem to the Interregnum ( 1254 – 73 ), consisted of 483 lines.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

The poem does not distort the syntax of ordinary speech nor draw on exotic sources of diction, yet it is obviously not ordinary speech -- only Hardy would say `` a grin of bitterness swept thereby ; ;

There were probably another three stanzas in the original poem but only nine letters of them remain.

Working with only eight letters ( or pro ... tr ... ntes ), Bowra conjured up a phrase that brilliantly develops the meaning and the euphony of the poem ( or proton ' ontrechontes ), describing luminescence " running along the forestays ".

The poem is known to us only through one Vatican manuscript, and long escaped the notice of historians.

The poem is known only from this single manuscript, which is estimated to date from close to AD 1000.

Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593.

Both the team and its fans ( in the poem, about 5, 000 attended the game ) believe they can win " if only " they could somehow get " Mighty Casey " ( Mudville's star player ) up to bat.

The poem is referenced in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game EarthBound, where a weapon is named the Casey Bat, which is the strongest weapon in the game, but will only hit 25 % of the time.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

Besides its literary qualities, this poem is important to historians because it is the only record of Joan of Arc outside the documents of her trial.

He later turned cynical concerning sexual matters, expressed not only in his behavior and his art, but in his writings as well, an example being a long poem called The City of Free Love.

Coleridge, when composing the poem, believed in a connection between nature and the divine but believed that the only dome that should serve as the top of a temple was the sky.

" Following in the June 1816 Eclectic Review, Josiah Conder dismissed the poem: " As to ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Pains of Sleep ', we can only regret the publication of them, as affording a proof that the Author over-rates the importance of his name.

When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.

" Another emphasis on the musicality of the poem came in August 1834, with Henry Nelson Coleridge analysis in the Quarterly Review: " In some of the smaller pieces, as the conclusion of the ' Kubla Khan ', for example, not only the lines by themselves are musical, but the whole passage sounds all at once as an outburst or crash of harps in the still air of autumn.

As can readily be seen with the context restored, Barkstead compares his poem about Venus and Adonis (“ my Muse ”) with Shakespeare ’ s, saying that his poetry sung " the withered tree " while Shakespeare ’ s " sung the fair blossom ", and that Shakespeare deserves laurel, the emblem of victory or poetic superiority, but that Barkstead, the lesser poet, deserves only cypress in comparison.

This is the drink referred to in Flann O ' Brien's poem " The Workman's Friend ": " A pint of plain is your only man.

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1787 ( fragment 1: see the third pair of images on this page ), but little could be made of them, since the indications of poem-end ( placed at the beginnings of the lines ) were lost, and scholars could only guess where one poem ended and another began.

When Burns noticed a print illustrating the poem " The Justice of the Peace " and asked who had written the poem, only Scott knew that it was by John Langhorne, and was thanked by Burns.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

The poem was initially published two years later in The Congregationalist, to commemorate the Fourth of July.

Alexander Pope famously characterized the alexandrine's potential to slow or speed the flow of a poem in two rhyming couplets consisting of an iambic pentameter followed by an alexandrine:

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

Kiernan argues against an 8th-century provenance because this would still require that the poem be transmitted by Anglo-Saxons through the Viking Age, holds that the paleographic and codicological evidence encourages the belief that Beowulf is an 11th-century composite poem, and states that Scribe A and Scribe B are the authors and that Scribe B is the more poignant of the two.

In one of two stanzas in the poem Grímnismál that mentions the bridge, Grímnir ( the god Odin in disguise ) provides the young Agnarr with cosmological knowledge, including that Bilröst is the best of bridges.

They are of two kinds: the " parallel texts ", which are parallel developments of the corresponding passages in the base text, and the speeches of Elihu ( Chapters 32-37 ), which consist of a polemic against the ideas expressed elsewhere in the poem, and so are claimed to be interpretive interpolations.

The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and also by Byron ( Don Juan ( Byron ) XIII ); John Gay ( Fables ); Alexander Pope ( An Essay on Man ).

Adelaide Crapsey codified the couplet form into a two line rhymed verse of ten syllables per line with her image couplet poem On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees, first published in 1915.

" The poem was long considered to be about two male hills in a quarrel over a female hill, but scholars now consider that Kagu and Mimihashi might be female hills in love with the same male hill, Unebi.

Fenrir is mentioned in three stanzas of the poem Völuspá, and in two stanzas of the poem Vafþrúðnismál.

The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.

Despite the different subject matter between this poem and the Works and Days, most scholars, with some notable exceptions ( like Evelyn-White ), believe that the two works were written by the same man.

The Works and Days is a poem of over 800 verses which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by.

* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.

Ovid provides two etymologies for June's name in his poem concerning the months entitled the Fasti.

" He then continued by focusing on the manner in which the poem was composed, ' We could have informed Mr. Coleridge of a reverend friend of ours, who actually wrote down two sermons on a passage in the Apocalypse, from the recollection of the spontaneous exercise of his faculties in sleep.

The contrasts between the two halves of the poem ...

* Alec Finlay has published two booklets on circle poem letterboxing: Isles, Arcs & Ways ( Isle of Thanet, England, 2005 ), ISBN 19044770404 ; and Hill of Streams ( Cairnhead, Scotland, 2008 ).