`` 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.

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

It is obviously a young man's poem, written out of books and not out of experience ; ;

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

There are also autobiographical sections in Alcuin's poem on York and in the Vita Alcuini, a Life written for him at Ferrières in the 820s, possibly based in part on the memories of Sigwulf, one of Alcuin's pupils.

The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

His monument is adorned by a poem written by Joseph Weigl, one of his pupils:

They were taken from the " Ode to Joy ", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

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.

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 ).

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

His long poem The Hashish-Eater ; Or, the Apocalypse of Evil was written in 1920.

It was almost certainly written within three or four years of Columba's death and is the earliest vernacular poem in European history.

*" Cimmeria " — A poem written in 1932.

Fenrir appears in modern literature in the poem " Om Fenrisulven og Tyr " ( 1819 ) by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger ( collected in Nordens Guder ), the novel Der Fenriswolf by K. H. Strobl, and Til kamp mod dødbideriet ( 1974 ) by E. K. Reich and E. Larsen.

In 1819, Severn was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Academy for his painting Una and the Red Cross Knight in the Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, written in fourteen line terza rima stanzas, is a major poem in the form, but perhaps the greatest odes of the 19th century were Keats's Five Great Odes of 1819 which included Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, and To Autumn.

Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the images of what he thought to be the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a new form of social action.

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.

The Vanir are featured in the poem Om vanerne in Nordens Guder ( 1819 ) by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger.

Modern works of art depicting Skaði include Skadi und Niurd ( illustration, 1883 ) by K. Ehrenberg and Skadi ( 1901 ) by E. Doepler d. J. Skaði also appears in A. Oehlenschläger's poem ( 1819 ) Skades Giftermaal.

* Julia Ward Howe ( 1819 – 1910 ), wrote poem that became the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Examples include " Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern )" ( 1880, charcoal drawing ) by K. Ehrenberg, and the poem " Einheriarne " ( published in Nordens Guder, 1819 ) by A. Oehlenschläger, and " Braga " ( 1771 ) by Klopstock.

In 1819, Lamb put her ability to mimic Byron to use in the narrative poem " A New Canto.

Keats wrote the poem from late 1818 until the spring of 1819, when he gave it up as having " too many Miltonic inversions.

In fact, Keats's major works include the late 1818 poem " Hyperion " that was unfinished mainly due to the depression caused by the death of his brother Tom, and also the late 1819 poem " The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream " whose plot also revolves around the figures of Hyperion.

His reflective poem on Human Life ( 1819 ), on which he had been engaged for twelve years, is written in his earlier manner.

His other works include the long poem The Queen's Wake ( 1813 ), his collection of songs Jacobite Reliques ( 1819 ), and his two novels The Three Perils of Man ( 1822 ), and The Three Perils of Woman ( 1823 ).

In a 1979 essay, Jerome McGann argued that while the poem was indirectly influenced by historical events, Keats had deliberately ignored the political landscape of 1819.

Countering this view, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Roe and others focused on what they believed were political allusions actually present in the poem, Roe arguing for a direct connection to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.

" Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written in May 1819 in either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, or, as according to Keats ' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, Hampstead, London.

The presence of weather is noticeable in the poem, as spring came early in 1819, which brought nightingales all over the heath.

It is possible that the poem was written between 26 April 1819 and 18 May 1819-based on weather conditions and similarities between images in the poem and those in a letter sent to Fanny Keats on May Day.

Shortly after this, Byron began working on his Don Juan ( 1819 – 1824 ), probably the best-known English poem in ottava rima.

" Ode on a Grecian Urn " is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published in January 1820 ( see 1820 in poetry ).

This popular description of her is largely due to Lamia, a poem by John Keats published in 1819.

The plant also appears in John Keats ' 1819 poem " Ode to a Nightingale ":