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Learn about the famous poem by Lord Byron, inspired by his cousin Anne Beatrix Wilmot, and its musical settings. The poem describes her beauty as a combination of dark and bright qualities, and praises her pure and innocent heart.
A short lyric poem by Robert Frost about the transience of beauty and nature. The phrase "nature's first green is gold" is the first line of the poem and a metaphor for the fleetingness of life.
A poem by Leo Marks used as a code in World War II and featured in the movie Carve Her Name with Pride. Learn about its origin, meaning, and cultural references.
Kristen Bell returns to the screen in Netflix's "Nobody Wants This," where she plays a relationship podcast host who develops feelings for an unconventional rabbi, portrayed by Adam Brody. Bell ...
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
Change can be difficult to process, but Angelou offers a thoughtful reframing: “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
Endymion is a long narrative poem by Keats based on the Greek myth of the shepherd and the moon goddess. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever", which is often quoted in popular culture and literature.