Poem
81The Man from Snowy River (poem) — The Man From Snowy River is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin , an Australian news magazine, in April 1890.The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a prizewinning …
82Judith (poem) — Judith is an Old English poetic Biblical paraphrase retelling the story of the beheading of Holofernes, an Assyrian military leader, by the eponymous heroine, as recorded in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith.History/IncompletenessThe manuscript …
83The Seasons (poem) — This article is about the Lithuanian poem. For the poems by James Thomson, see James Thomson (poet). The Seasons (Metai) is the first Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It was published as Das Jahr in Königsberg,… …
84The Wanderer (poem) — The Wanderer is an Old English poem from the 10th century, preserved in the Exeter Book. The date of composition is unknown but most certainly predates 1070 AD, as it was probably part of an earlier, oral literary culture.Overview The Wanderer is …
85Tam o' Shanter (Burns poem) — Tam o Shanter is considered to be one of Robert Burns finest poems. It was written in 1790, and at about six A4 pages is one of his longest. The poem, first published in 1791, uses a mixture of Scots and English.Many consider it one of the best… …
86Fasti (poem) — Tiepolo s Triumph of Flora (ca. 1743), a scene based on the Fasti, Book 4[1] The Fasti is a six book Latin poem by Ovid believed to have been left unfinished when the poet was exiled to T …
87On being asked for a War Poem — Photograph of William Butler Yeats taken by Charles Beresford in 1911 On being asked for a War Poem is a poem by William Butler Yeats written on February 6, 1915 in response to a request by Henry James that Yeats compose a political poem about… …
88Casabianca (poem) — See Casabianca (disambiguation) for other meanings Casabianca is a poem by British poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in the Monthly Magazine for August 1826.The poem opens:::The boy stood on the burning deck::Whence all but he had… …
89Pearl (poem) — Pearl is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl poet or Gawain poet , is generally assumed, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and… …
90Christabel (poem) — Christabel is a lengthy poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. Coleridge prepared for the incomplete… …
