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	"The letter I have written today is longer than usual because I lacked the time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662) French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher.

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Mr mithu murshed
Is lyrics a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings?

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sparky28513
Is Cyrano De Bergerac a comedy or a drama ?

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MISTER SALLY
How do I write a good christian play for school?

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wezie
Where can I get help writing a simple poem about nursing and caring?

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Mr kenneth O'Bar RN USA
Can you identify the author and complete this poem? ...My heart was half full of slumber with the astors in their ranks and half full to brimming with a hungry kind of thanks...Thank You

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coming on thru USA
I wondered if anyone might know the value of a 42 year old book called "LIFE WITH HAZEL"by Ted Kez, published by E.P Dutton & company?

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Miss shirley dorricott
Who wrote the poem with containing the words "if you miss me let me go" or "miss me, but let me go"

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What do you think of my poem? I wrote it just 10 minutes ago, I haven't reread it yet. What should I change, is it good...?

here's the link

http://www.freewebs.com/randomness92/theonlyone.htm

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Rhea
I would be grateful if anyone can tell me where this line comes from. Is it part of a poem, prose, or from a story?

You've been brilliant answering my other questions. I eagerly await the answer to this one, with grateful thanks for taking time to read it. However, theres not much to work on!

A ROSE RED CITY HALF AS OLD AS TIME...

I had jotted a note down next it - ("Said of Jorden"),

Sincerely yours, Rhea Juliana

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Mr peter maseko
What is the difference in structure between poetry, prose and drama? give examples.

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Rhea
I know this verse well. The thing that's driving me mad, I can't recall from which of the many poems in my head, it belongs to. I tried the various search engines, however, it takes ages. Sorry guys asking you clever people out there is so much easier!

Here it is,

From the dim recesses

Of woven caresses

where lovers catch ye by your loose tresses,

From the azure isles

Where sweet wisdom smiles, delaying your ships with her siren wiles.

Grateful thanks, Rhea

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Ms Emma Le Marquand
What is structuralism?

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fosters
What is recognised as the worlds shortest poem?

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tonijo
Which is the most famous poem?

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Rhea
I would be very happy if someone could tell me who wrote these lines, and if there are more. I am going cross eyed scanning poetry sites, without much luck.

I had met love not many days before,

And as in blissful mood I listening lay

None ever had of joy so full a store.

I thought that spring must last for evermore,

For I was young and loved and it was may.

With thanks, Rhea

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In the poem 'Catrin' by Gillian Clarke, what does she mean by the word 'child' on the first line?

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Clifford10
What is considered to be the longest word in the dictionary?

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emmajane
In which Novel ends with the lines?

'and a little light rain came down but nobody cared. It didn't get in the way of the stars'

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Worp
How does the W.H.Davies poem go, in which, sitting at home with his dog, he recalls how long ago he had to threaten a stray dog with a stone when it tried to befriend him, because at the time he was barely able to support himself?

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Worp
A notorious captain mentioned in Johnson's "General History of the Pirates" (1725) also appears as a character in a work of fiction. In this story, the captain removes a great golden brooch from his coat and tosses it down to a complainant in recompense for damage caused by his ship. What commodity was it that suffered damage?

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Worp
Who wrote the poem about a hero dead from a gas attack because he had sacrificed his life to warn his comrades, then was initially denied access to the place where dead heroes go because his body was strangely free of honourable wounds.

Author or title of poem please.

Worp

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Worp
In a poem about the revealing by archaeology of the remains of an ancient fortress, its walls decorated with huge painted sculptures of fabulous beasts:

'And then we glimpse them, wary, as if suddenly aroused, come heel to toe from mouth of hell to taste the air again. An eerie file of mythic beasts lured from their hoary den, like night-moths to the lamplight, by this sunlit world of men.'

Name the poem, the author, or the title of the anthology (either one will do).

Worp

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Worp
Why have so few of you bought my volumes of poems?

Could it be you're immersed in your comings and goings?

And why when bright notions ignite in our minds,

Do itches and endodermic irritations arise - the kind that demand our immediate and undivided attention?

Worp

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Worp
I understand a museum in upstate New York has offered $27,500,000 for the remains of two of the seven dwarfs - Grumpy and Sleazy. How, if at all, will this contaminate the otherwise delightful world of American legend and myth? If the two dwarfs turn out to have been purposely terminated in order to secure the prize-money, where will that leave the dreams and aspirations of tender American youth in this monstrous, yet not wholly unexpected, realization of the American dream.

Worp

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rhea
I would like to know if there are any more lines to this poem and who wrote

it?

Alas! she hath no other cause of anguish

But Tereus'love,on her by strong hand wroken;

Wherein she suffering all her spirits languish,

Full womanlike complains her will was broken.

But I who, daily craving,

Cannot have to content me,

Have more cause to lament me,

Since wanting is more woe than too much having.

Thank you.

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Worp
How does the rest of the 'Ancient Lights" poem go that includes the verse:

A small bright sentinel on high, A looking-glass trained on the sky collecting light, refined, remote, A crystal island of bright hope, Confined by vast, red-brick expanse, Beyond - a place where daylights dance.

Thanks

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Mrs JO'ANNE OROZCO LOPEZ
Trying to find a poem, which begins with "Faster than fairies faster than witches, bridges hedges and ditches"?

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Mr chris ford
What was the name of the famous pamphlet Charles Dickens wrote in to the rich people of England?

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Ms ferna hoffmann
What is the history of books on tape?

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rhea
Voltaire's exile to England after offending a nobleman, Chevaliar de Rohan is well known. When he returned to Paris three years later, How did he escape punishment? He had already written the play Oedipe which was a success, so it couldn't have been his growing fame!

I have scanned websites, however, they don't mention what happened on his return. Perhaps I've missed the one that goes into this question a bit more. I would be grateful for the name of any web page I may have missed, that covers this issue.

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rhea
I found these words jotted down on a note, which said, this was a Renaissance proverb, but where does it come from and who wrote them?

Colei che si lecca le labbra sa quale il sapore della passione del smo amante

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rhea

Are these lines part of a longer poem and who was the poet?

Do not concern those tresses fair,

The silken snares of thy curled hair ,

Lest finding neither gold nor ore,

The curious silkworm work no more.

Do not conceal those breasts of thine

More snow-white than the Apennine,

Lest if there be like cold or frost

The lily be forever lost.

Do not conceal that fragrant scent,

Thy breath, which to all flowers hath lent

Perfumes lost is being suppress

No spices ground in all the East.

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rhea
I would be grateful for any help in naming the Poet who wrote these lines.

Oh would your pity give my heart

One corner of your breast,

'Twould learn of yours the winning art

And quickly steal the rest.

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Mr mohammed basheer
Who coined the term "metafiction"?

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Mr mohammed basheer
Please explain "inscape" and instress" in GM Hopkins`s poetry?

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rhea
Can anyone please tell me the name of this poem and the Poet who wrote it?

Free love has this, different from gold and clay,

That to divide is not to take away.

Like ocean, which the general north wind breaks

Into ten thousand waves, and each one makes

A mirror of the moon, like some great glass,

Which did distort whatever form might pass,

Dashed into fragments by a playful child,

Which then reflects it's eyes and forehead mild;

Giving for one, which it could ne'er express,

A thousand images of loveliness.

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rhea

Can anyone tell me where these words come from?

I give her this month and the next, though the whole of my year

should be hers. Though it rendered so many of its days intolerable,

or perplexed, but so many more so happy.

Who has left a scent on my life and left my walls dancing over and

over with her shadow, whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls and

all of London littered with remembered kisses.

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rhea

Hi,

I would like to know the name of the book where Dante chose the great

Roman Poet, Virgil

to guide him through Hell and Purgatory and on to paradise?

Thank you,

Rhea

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rhea
Acrostic, I understand is a type of game, in which the initial letter of a poem when read downwards spell a word. A double Acrostic is when the last letters in each line also make a word.

Was there a period when this would have been popular? I have asked around and a few people had heard about it but do not have any idea when it was fashionable.

I would be really interested if anyone has an answer.

Thank you, Rhea

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Mr mohammed basheer
What is the well known group of writers to which Virginia Wolf belongs?

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Mr mohammed basheer
Why were the poets of the 1930`s called the "pink poets"?

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Mr mohammed basheer
Who is the male protagonist in Richardson`s" Pamela"?

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