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Our Hitch in Hell. " Our Hitch in Hell " is a ballad by American poet Frank Bernard Camp, originally published as one of 49 [ 1] ballads in a 1917 collection entitled American Soldier Ballads, that went on to inspire multiple variants among American law enforcement and military, either as The Final Inspection, the Soldier's Prayer (or Poem ...
The Hound of Heaven. " The Hound of Heaven " is a 182-line poem written by English poet Francis Thompson (1859–1907). The poem became famous and was the source of much of Thompson's posthumous reputation. It was first printed in 1890 in the periodical Merry England, [1] later to appear in Thompson's first volume of poems in 1893. [2]
Pippa Passes is a verse drama by Robert Browning. It was published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series, in a low-priced two-column edition for sixpence, [1] and republished in his collected Poems of 1849, [2] where it received much more critical attention.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil 's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout.
The Road Not Taken. " The Road Not Taken " is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation ...
Others on this list reflect on the legacy your late father left behind. This quote by Connie Britton is a good example: “He shaped me into who I am. Dads can be so powerful and generous that way ...
Paradiso. Paradiso ( Italian: [paraˈdiːzo]; Italian for "Paradise" or "Heaven") is the third and final part of Dante 's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and the Purgatorio. It is an allegory telling of Dante's journey through Heaven, guided by Beatrice, who symbolises theology.
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, by John William Waterhouse. " To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time " is a 1648 poem by the English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick. The poem is in the genre of carpe diem, Latin for "seize the day".