`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward too was inspired to compose his tune.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

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Sometimes they wanted a little alteration, sometimes none ; sometimes the lines needed in order to make a complete poem would come later, spontaneously or with ' a little coaxing '; sometimes he had to sit down and finish the poem with his head.

Beethoven had made plans to set this poem to music as far back as 1793, when he was 22 years old.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

Snorri especially quotes passages from Bragi's Ragnarsdrápa, a poem supposedly composed in honor of the famous legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrók (' Hairy-breeches ') describing the images on a decorated shield which Ragnar had given to Bragi.

He had already begun writing at this time and, in his third year, he composed a libellous poem ( Il colosso ) in which he ridiculed the daughters of certain Pavian families.

According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.

Prior to this event, the technique had been published in an issue of 391 in the poem by Tzara, dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love under the sub-title, TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM

Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".

It took several months after its publication for the poem to make Thayer famous, since he was hardly the boastful type and had signed the June 24 poem with the nickname " Phin " which he had used since his time on the Lampoon.

Kelly had also performed in vaudeville, and recited the poem dozens of times, possibly, to Thayer's dismay, butchering it.

In the poem, Thor wakes up to find that his powerful hammer, Mjöllnir, is missing.

The romance tradition did, however, remain sufficiently powerful to persuade Thomas Hardy, Laurence Binyon and John Masefield to compose Arthurian plays, and T. S. Eliot alludes to the Arthur myth ( but not Arthur ) in his poem The Waste Land, which mentions the Fisher King.

The first stanza of the poem describes Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain.

In the poem Þrymskviða, Thor wakes and finds that his powerful hammer, Mjöllnir, is missing.

Thoreau had taken up a version of Percy Shelley's principle in the political poem The Mask of Anarchy ( 1819 ), that Shelley begins with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action.

However, Holst is said to have considered the short, subdued but powerful tone poem his " best work ".

The poem praises the assassin's valour in battle, calling him " the victim of a noble feeling, / An all powerful military genius, / A dreadful thunder that smashes crowns ".

He did, however, continue revising his Homer for a second edition of his translation, and, aside from writing the powerful and bleak poem " The Castaway ", penned some English translations of Greek verse and turned some of the Fables of John Gay into Latin.

In 1936, Césaire began work on his long poem " Cahier d ' un retour au pays natal ", a vivid and powerful depiction of the ambiguities of Caribbean life and culture in the New World and this upon returning home to Martinique.

Because of the stress of his life, it became unusually powerful, allowing him to kill by only thinking the poem.

The poem had a powerful effect in defining both Acadian history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Yevtushenko added, about the composer's setting of Babi Yar that " if I were to able to write music I would have written it exactly the way Shostakovich did .... His music made the poem greater, more meaningful and powerful.

Ujejski then gave utterance to the universal feeling of indignation in his powerful poem Choral, which has become one of the notable patriotic Polish songs of that period.

Out poured forth a beautiful poem of praise of the Lord in 12 powerful verses, which together are called Dhruva-stuti.

The first place belongs to Girart de Roussillon, a poem of ten thousand verses, which relates the struggles of Charles Martel with his powerful vassal the Burgundian Gerard of Roussillon.

Also closely associated with TS Eliot, she wrote a short but powerful poem, " I Who am Here Dissembled ", full of allusions to images in Eliot's own poems, for the anthology T. S. Eliot: A Symposium in honour of his sixtieth birthday.

The poem finishes with the old sorcerer's statement that powerful spirits should only be called by the master himself.

Wordsworth himself in the Preface to his and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads defined good poetry as “ the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ,” though in the same sentence he goes on to clarify this statement by asserting that nonetheless any poem of value must still be composed by a man “ possessed of more than usual organic sensibility has also thought long and deeply ;” he also emphasises the importance of the use of meter in poetry ( which he views as one of the key features that differentiates poetry from prose ).

The poem is extremely powerful.

The poem was so heart-rending and struck such a success and popularity with its powerful romantic description of profound feelings among the frequenters of the Paris literary salons that it was circulated for recite among them for years before becoming a classic of French romantic poetry after his death.

He is perhaps best known for the book-length polemical poem Whale Nation, which in 1988 became " the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling.

In Pope's poem, Eloisa feels anguish over her powerful feelings — especially in her dreams — for Abélard.

His poem Balada o zaklanim ovcama (" Ballad of Slaughtered Sheep "), written in 1930s, is one of the most powerful works of Croatian literature.

Curiously, he also quietly leans upon a poem about New York called " The City " by Ben Maddow, from whom Algren lifted powerful images of urban life.