Rhyming Poem, The — (10th century) The Rhyming Poem is an OLD ENGLISH poem of 87 lines included in the 10th century manuscript known as the EXETER BOOK. Like many of the other poems in the Exeter Book (including such wellknown texts as The WANDERER, The SEAFARER … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
The Hangman (poem) — The Hangman is a children s poem by Maurice Ogden. Its plot concerns a hangman who arrives at a town and executes the citizens one by one. As each citizen is executed, the others are afraid to object out of fear that they will be next. Finally… … Wikipedia
Love Among the Ruins (poem) — Love Among the Ruins is an 1855 poem by Robert Browning. It was included in his collection Men and Women , published that year. It is the first poem in the book.Below is the first stanza: Where the quiet coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and… … Wikipedia
The Waking — is a poem written by Theodore Roethke in 1952 in the form of a villanelle. It is a self reflexive poem that describes waking up from sleep. It comments on the unknowable [http://mchip00.nyu.edu/lit med/lit med db/webdocs/webdescrips/roethke42 des … Wikipedia
The Walrus and the Carpenter — is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that appeared in his book Through the Looking Glass , published in December 1871. The poem is recited in chapter four, by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. The poem is composed of 18 stanzas and contains 108 … Wikipedia
The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly — is a poem in book one of James Joyce s novel Finnegans Wake (pages 44.24 to 47.32), where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumor which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in… … Wikipedia
The Lays of Beleriand — published in 1985, is the third volume of Christopher Tolkien s 12 volume book series, The History of Middle earth, in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien. The book contains the long lays or poems Tolkien … Wikipedia
The Greene Knight — is a late medieval rhyming romance, found in the Percy Folio Manuscript. The storyline effectively parallels the more famous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in describing the dealings of Gawain, King Arthur s nephew, with the titular Greene… … Wikipedia
The Whitsun Weddings (poem) — The Whitsun Weddings is one of the best known poems by UK poet Philip Larkin, and was published in the 1964 collection of the same name. The poem comprises eight verses of ten lines, making it one of his longest poems. The rhyming scheme is a,b,a … Wikipedia
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