One of his most remarkably inventive works is the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner ( 1839 ) based on Samuel Coleridge's famous poem, which recently sold at Sotheby's for ₤ 27, 000.

Mainstream scholar Irvin Matus demonstrated that Oxford sold the Bilton house in 1580, having previously rented it out, making it unlikely that Ben Jonson's 1623 poem would identify Oxford by referring to a property he once owned, but never lived in, and sold 43 years earlier.

In 1849 he became a professional writer when he sold two essays and a poem to the Pictorial National Library, a Boston magazine.

A rare volume published by the Black Sun press of Hart Crane's book-length poem The Bridge, including photos by Walker Evans, was sold by Christie's in 2009 for US $ 21, 250.

The original edition is now very rare, but the volume, reissued with another poem substituted, sold well and the poet made a profit of about £ 80 from it.

* Walt Whitman's 1855 poem " Song of Myself " refers to a " quadroon girl " who is sold at a slave auction.

In the poem, Pearse personifies Ireland as an old woman whose glory is past and who has been sold by her children.

Crosby published MacLeish's long poem Einstein in a deluxe edition of 150 copies that sold quickly.

The title page of this second edition states that the book is to be sold by stationer William Leake ; Leake had obtained the rights to Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis in 1596 and published five octavo editions of that poem ( the third edition through the eighth ) in the 1599 – 1602 period.

She sold her first poem under the name " Phillip Cressy " because men were paid ₤ 5, while women were only paid ₤ 3.

" The poem sold well and has been used as children's literature since Carey's day.

They either pitch original ideas to Producers in the hope that they will be optioned or sold, or screenwriters are commissioned by a producer to create a screenplay from a concept, true story, existing screen work or literary work, such as a novel, poem, play, comic book or short story.

Random House, which published Angelou's hardcover books and the poem later that year, reported that they sold more of her books in January 1993 than they did in all of 1992, marking a 1, 200 percent increase.

It was exhibited along with a poem by D ' Annunzio calling for courage and resolution in wartime, and later reproduced in a booklet sold to raise funds for the Red Cross.

The North American rights for the poem Whale Nation ( 1988 ) alone were sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair for $ 100, 000.

# In Touch-Starting from an attempt for cheaper fusion power using superconductivity, which was discovered by Onnes, with liquid gas provided by Louis-Paul Cailletet, who carried out experiments on a tower built by Gustave Eiffel, who also built the Statue of Liberty with its famous poem by the Jewish activist Emma Lazarus, helped by Oliphant, whose boss Elgin was the son of the man who stole the Elgin Marbles and sold them with the help of royal painter Thomas Lawrence, whose colleague Dr. Hunter had an assistant whose wife's lodger was Benjamin Franklin, who charted the Gulf Stream with a thermometer Fahrenheit borrowed from Ole Rømer, whose friend Picard surveyed Versailles and provided the water for the fountains and the royal gardens and all the trees that inspired Duhamel to write the book on gardening that was read by the architect William Chambers, who hired the Scottish stonemason Thomas Telford, whose idea for London Bridge was turned down by Thomas Young, whose light waves travel in ether, as do Hertz's electricity waves, with which Helmholtz prods a frog to disprove the vitalists, whose leader, Klages, analyzes handwriting so individual zip codes have to be capital letters to get your mail to a jungle village to keep you " In Touch ".

The poem is best known for the line " The day the pubs ran dry " as huge celebrations followed and many pubs in the town sold out of all alcoholic drinks, thus the phrase ' ran dry '.

" Following in 1959, John Beer described the complex nature of the poem: " Kubla Khan the poem is not a meaningless reverie, but a poem so packed with meaning as to render detailed elucidation extremely difficult.

" Richardson did oblige in reading the poem at Mantle's funeral, something he described as being extremely difficult.

The poem retained its popularity throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and is represented by an extremely high number of surviving manuscripts ( more than 400 ); the earliest of these are three fragmentary copies containing portions of Books 1-3, dating to the ninth century.

Although extremely close to Irish materials, he was also profoundly influenced by Byron and his peers ; possibly his finest poem, the title work of The Recluse of Inchidony and Other Poems ( 1829 ), was written in Spenserian stanzas that were clearly inspired by Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

As such it has become extremely popular sung to the English composer Hubert Parry's tune Repton taken from the 1888 oratorio Judith and set to the latter part of Whittier's poem in 1924 by Dr George Gilbert Stocks.

This poem attacked Slavophilism, personally attacked Emperor Nicholas I and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and therefore was considered extremely inflammatory, and of all the members of the dismantled society Shevchenko was punished most severely.

The letter is long, extremely well written and begins with a long poem praising the Marinids, followed by a prose where he laments his defeat and asks forgiveness for past wrongdoings of his forefathers against the Marinids.

The dactyl " out of the ..." becomes a pulse that rides through the entire poem, often generating the beginning of each new line, even though the poem as a whole, as is typical for Whitman, is extremely varied and " free " in its use of metrical feet.

The poem is extremely powerful.

A rendition of the poem by renowned carnatic vocalist M. S. Subbulakshmi is extremely popular which is played daily in many homes and temples of South India.

It is " a stream of violent but extremely learned abuse ," modeled on a poem of the same title by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus.

It is, however, remarkable that ' Abid's contemporary Imru ' al-Qais, in a poem which in other respects also exhibits certain coincidences with that of ' Abid, presents himself considerable licence in the use of the very same metre one which, moreover, is extremely rare in the ancient period.

In their heyday of the first half of the 17th century, they were printed in black-letter or gothic type and included multiple, eye-catching illustrations, a popular tune tile, as well as an alluring poem.

The poem uses internal half rhyme and full rhyme as well as end rhyme.

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.

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

T. S. Eliot's use of a quotation from Heart of Darkness —" Mistah Kurtz, he dead "— as an epigraph to the original manuscript of his poem The Hollow Men contrasted its dark horror with the presumed " light of civilization ," and suggested the ambiguity of both the dark motives of civilization and the freedom of barbarism, as well as the " spiritual darkness " of several characters in Heart of Darkness.

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.

Ronsard wrote a poem on La Défloration de Lède, perhaps inspired by the Michelangelo, which he may well have known.

Students received the usual quota of Plutarch, Shakespeare, Swift, and Addison, as well as such Americans as Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus, Timothy Dwight's Conquest of Canaan, and John Trumbull's poem M ' Fingal.

It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.

In 1763, at the age of 17, Jones wrote the poem Caissa in Latin hexameters, based on a 658-line poem called " Scacchia, Ludus " published in 1527 by Marco Girolamo Vida, giving a mythical origin of chess that has become well known in the chess world.

Valhalla is referenced at length in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, while Valhalla receives lesser direct references in stanza 33 of the Völuspá, where the god Baldr's death is referred to as the " woe of Valhalla ", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of Hyndluljóð, where the goddess Freyja states her intention of riding to Valhalla with Hyndla, in an effort to help Óttar, as well as in stanzas 6 through 7, where Valhalla is mentioned again during a dispute between the two.

A variety of liturgical poems are added, including a poem recounting the radiance of the countenance of the Kohen Gadol after exiting the Holy of Holies, traditionally believed to emit palpable light in a manner echoing the Torah's account of the countenance of Moses after descending from Mount Sinai, as well as prayers for the speedy rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of sacrificial worship.

In a footnote to a poem titled Speech to the Western Indians, ( published 1813 ) Arent DePeyster, British commandant at Fort Michilimackinac from 1774 to 1779, noted that " Baptist Point de Saible " was " handsome ", " well educated ", and " settled in Eschecagou ".

As for the probability — to be sure that might admit some question — but I told her that in my judgment the poem had moral, and that too openly obtruded on the reader, It ought to have no more moral than the story of the merchant sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well and throwing the shells aside, and the Genii starting up and saying he must kill the merchant, because a date shell had put out the eye of the Genii's son.

His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well.

Additionally, Carroll inserted on his own expense an " Easter Greeting " into the first edition of his poem after it already was printed: "... And if I have written anything to add to those stores of innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to look back upon without shame and sorrow ( as how much of life must then be recalled!

We are fairly well informed about the contents of Phaenomena, for Eudoxus ' prose text was the basis for a poem of the same name by Aratus.

As well, a poem titled Caratacus appears in Treece's Exiles, a collection of poetry published in the same year.

Among some of the concepts and artistic innovations developed by the Lettrists were the lettrie, a poem reflecting pure form yet devoid of all semantic content, new syntheses of writing and visual art identified as metagraphics and hypergraphics, as well as new creative techniques in filmmaking.

Although looking rather frail ( Buck at the time was sick with lung cancer ) and struggling to maintain his composure ( Buck was obviously showing the signs of Parkinson's disease as well ), Buck stirred emotions by reading a patriotic-themed poem during the pregame ceremonies.

Even though the term " courtly love " does appear only in just one extant Provençal poem ( as cortez amors in a late 12th century lyric by Peire d ' Alvernhe ), it is closely related to the term fin ' amor (" fine love ") which does appear frequently in Provençal and French, as well as German translated as hohe Minne.

The prosperity this situation brought is seemingly prophesied in the Blessing of Moses, though textual scholars view this as a postdiction, dating the poem to well after the tribe had been established in the land.

" Din " is frequently pronounced to rhyme with " bin ",, although the rhymes within the poem ( as well as the pronunciation in the 1939 film ) make it clear that it should be pronounced to rhyme with " green ".

In Russia ( as well as in other Russophone places ), a fictional steamship Admiral Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern from the popular Prostokvashino animated film series is well-known, often as part of a catchphrase " Admiral I. F. Kruzenshtern, a man and a steamship ", " pirated " from the title of a requiem poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, To Comrade Nette, a Man and a Steamship.