`` 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.

His lyrical epic poem " Máj " ( May ), published in 1836 shortly before his death, was judged by his contemporaries as confusing, too individualistic, and not in harmony with the national ideas.

As Henry waited in the Verdun trenches, shortly before being wounded, he composed a poem on a leaf torn from his field notebook, found later among his effects.

To stop the gossiping which started shortly afterwards, Huygens write the poem Cluijs-werck, in which he shows a glimpse of the latter stages of his life.

In a poem describing a dream she had shortly after his death, she wrote

Greg Walker notes that Heywood actually wrote a poem in defence of Princess Mary shortly after she was disinherited.

The pictorial style in which the poem is written owes much to the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and the precisionist style of Charles Sheeler, an American photographer-painter whom Williams met shortly before composing the poem.

It is thought to be her greatest poem, written shortly before her death.

A deck, which was produced according the poem ( probably shortly after Boiardo's death ) has partially survived.

The following poem was written shortly after Ball's murder: Twas on a Sabbath evening in drear November daysTwo friends were heard creating, in Perry Barry's bywaysHigh words just fed the anger, now this young man's life is fled. A shot and then another!

Four lines which probably once stood at the beginning of a poem pay homage to Julius Caesar shortly before his assassination, on the eve of his projected campaign against the Parthians:

The poem opens shortly after the death of the Trojan hero Hector, with the arrival of the Amazon warrior Penthesileia who has come to support the Trojans.

The tree is calculated to be at least 1000 years old but was severely damaged by a storm shortly after the poem was written.

Sylvia Plath, introducing the poem for a BBC radio reading shortly before her suicide, famously described the poem as about " a girl with an Electra complex.

The poem is a lament ( Greek ) on the death of her friend Baucis ( Greek ), a disciple of Sappho, shortly before her wedding.

Also, on either side of the base of the statue, are two excerpts from Seeger's " Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France ", a poem written shortly before his death on 4 July 1916.

However, the settings found in the poem suggest that they were possibly composed shortly after Milton left Cambridge.

He served as an assistant priest or curate in various parishes and in 1810, published his first poem Winter Evening Thoughts in a local newspaper, followed in 1811 by a collection of moral verse, Cottage Poems.

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:

A sestina ( ; or ; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain or sesta rima ) is a structured 39-line poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three-line stanza, known either as an envoi or tornada.

Madden's scholarly, Middle English edition of the poem was followed in 1898 by the first Modern English translation-a prose version by literary scholar Jessie L. Weston.

The symphony was followed by another orchestral work, by far the best known of Dukas's compositions, his scherzo for orchestra, L ' apprenti sorcier ( The Sorcerer's Apprentice ) ( 1897 ), a short piece ( lasting for between 10 and 12 minutes in performance ) based on Goethe's poem " Der Zauberlehrling ".

An alternate story told by the poet Pherecydes was followed in Callimachus ' poem " The Bathing of Pallas "; in it, Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked.

Richard Emmons, from Great Crossing, Kentucky, followed this up with a play entitled Tecumseh, of the Battle of the Thames and a poem in honor of Johnson.

It was the scene of a nationally followed First Amendment struggle and was visited by Allen Ginsberg in 1966 ( the name had been changed to the Magic Theatre Vortex Art Gallery ) where he first read his long poem " Wichita Vortex Sutra.

He followed this with Wallenstein's Camp, inspired by Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein drama trilogy, and began a third symphonic poem Hakon Jarl, based on the tragic drama by Danish poet Adam Oehlenschläger.

A re-recorded version of Graeme Edge's " Late Lament " again followed, which had each group member reading a verse of the poem.

His songs had meanwhile caught the attention of Franz Liszt, whom he respected greatly, and who like Wolf's previous mentors advised him to pursue larger forms ; advice he this time followed with the symphonic tone poem Penthesilea.

Albert Roussel's first symphonic poem, based on Leo Tolstoy's novel Resurrection ( 1903 ), was soon followed by Le Poème de forêt ( 1904-6 ), which is in four movements written in cyclic form.

In 1598 Barnfield published his third volume, The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, a poem in praise of money, followed by a sort of continuation, in the same six-line stanza, called The Complaint of Poetry for the Death of Liberality.

A single falling leaf is by itself a fine image for the feeling of loneliness, but in order to fully experience the poem, the reader must then put the elements of language back into the visual form in which Cummings arranged them: a vertical line ( like a leaf falling to the ground ), followed by a horizontal series of letters ( like a leaf laying flat on the ground ).

With Crowley's editions, the poem followed an existing and subsequently repeated convention of titling the poem The Vision of Piers Pierce Plowman, which is in fact the conventional name of just one section of the poem.

Other significant works followed, including Colloque sentimental for voice and string quartet ( 1908 ); Eglogue d ' Automne for orchestra ( 1910 ); Vers la Princesse lointaine, a symphonic poem ( 1912 ); Au Printemps for voice and orchestra ; and L ' Arada ( The Earth ), a song cycle of six mélodies ( 1922 ).

Where known, the title of the winning poem is given, followed by the name of the author, each year links to its corresponding " in poetry " article:

Each story is followed by a related poem

This was followed by The Triumph of Peace, a Masque occasioned by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 1749 ); a fragment, entitled Agriculture, of a long tedious poem in blank verse on Public Virtue ( 1753 ); The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted at Drury Lane 1739, printed 1741 ); and an ode, Melpomene ( 1751 ).

This was followed by The Voyage of Columbus ( 1810 ), and by Jacqueline ( 1814 ), a narrative poem, written in the four-accent measure of the newer writers, and published in the same volume with Byron's Lara.

It was followed by a Poem on the Last Day ( 1713 ), dedicated to Queen Anne ; The Force of Religion: or Vanquished Love ( 1714 ), a poem on the execution of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury ; and an epistle to Joseph Addison, On the late Queen's Death and His Majesty's Accession to the Throne ( 1714 ), in which he rushed to praise the new king.

The work is divided into three sections: the first has some of Dodsley's fables prefaced by a short prose moral ; the second has ' Fables with Reflections ', in which each story is followed by a prose and a verse moral and then a lengthy prose reflection ; the third, ' Fables in Verse ', includes fables from other sources in poems by several unnamed authors ; in these the moral is incorporated into the body of the poem.