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`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare's poem.
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.
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.
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.
If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.
I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.
The Franck symphonic poem, `` Psyche '', is a lush, sweet-sounding affair that was pleasant to encounter once again.
Later legends ( beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD ) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel.
The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.
Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.
At that time, the poem was titled America for publication.
Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.
Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.
The poem was initially published two years later in The Congregationalist, to commemorate the Fourth of July.
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 ).
The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.
Rousseau's conception of alpine purity was later emphasized with the publication of Albrecht von Haller's poem Die Alpen that described the mountains as an area of mythical purity.
According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.
Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim was one of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned in stanza 2 of the eddic poem Völuspá.
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.

poem and referenced
The poem has been referenced in a huge number of television shows.
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.
The same story is referenced in one stanza of the poem, Lokasenna, in which Loki insults Frigg by accusing her of infidelity with Odin's brothers:
In chapter 50, Hel is referenced (" to join the company of the quite monstrous wolf's sister ") in the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa.
Loki is referenced in two stanzas in Völuspá hin skamma, found within the poem Hyndluljóð.
Njörðr is referenced in stanza 22 of the poem Þrymskviða, where he is referred to as the father of the goddess Freyja.
* Trimalchio and his feast are referenced in Octavio Paz's poem, " I Speak of the City.
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.
In chapter 22, Skaði is referenced in the 10th century poem Haustlöng where the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir refers to an ox as " bow-string-Var's whale ".
In the short poem Helreið Brynhildar, Hel is directly referenced as a location in the title, translating to " Brynhild's Hel-Ride.
Astraea is also referenced in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, in Book IV between lines 990 and 1000.
Hamadryad is referenced as a whole in Edgar Allan Poe's poem, " Sonnet To Science.
Empusa is referenced in Rudyard Kipling's narrative poem, Tomlinson.
* Tess of the d ' Urbervilles is referenced to in the poem " Man and Dog " by Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas.
The GAR is referenced in John McCrae's poem He Is There!
Nerval is referenced in Richard Wilbur's new book Anterooms in the poem " A Prelude ".
Joliet is referenced in Edgar Lee Masters's poem " Silas Dement ", part of the Spoon River Anthology:
In the 2009 movie Invictus, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, the poem is referenced several times.
* The Baudelaire poem is quoted and the island is referenced in Anthony Powell's The Kindly Ones ( 1962 ), part of A Dance to the Music of Time.
In relation, Thunor is sometimes used in Old English texts to gloss Jupiter, the god may be referenced in the poem Solomon and Saturn, and the Old English expression þunnorad (" thunder ride ") may refer to the god's thunderous, goat-led chariot.
* The poem is referenced in the Brand New song " Sowing Season ( Yeah )".
Rudyard Kipling referenced Aldershot in his poem " Gunga Din ".
" Huntington was also referenced in Carl Sandburg's poem, Southern Pacific.
* The New England poet Robert Lowell referenced both Shaw and the Shaw Memorial in the poem " For the Union Dead " which Lowell published in his 1964 book of the same name.

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