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  2. Success is counted sweetest - Wikipedia

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    As first published under the title "Success" in A Masque of Poets, 1878. " Success is counted sweetest " is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson written in 1859 and published anonymously in 1864. The poem uses the images of a victorious army and one dying warrior to suggest that only one who has suffered defeat can understand success.

  3. The Lotos-Eaters - Wikipedia

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    The Lotos-Eaters. c. 1901 illustration to the poem by W. E. F. Britten. The Lotos-Eaters is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in Tennyson's 1832 poetry collection. It was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam, where they visited the Pyrenees mountains. The poem describes a group of mariners who ...

  4. Hannah Griffitts - Wikipedia

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    Griffitts was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lived in that city for the entirety of her long life. Her parents were Thomas and Mary Norris Griffitts, and she had a sister, Mary, and a brother, Isaac. As a granddaughter of the merchant Isaac Norris, Griffitts was a member of a prominent Pennsylvania Quaker family.

  5. Comin' Thro' the Rye - Wikipedia

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    Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–1796). The words are put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel " Common' Frae The Town ". This is a variant of the tune to which " Auld Lang Syne " is usually sung—the melodic shape is almost identical, the difference lying in the tempo and rhythm.

  6. Military fiction - Wikipedia

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    Types of military fiction include: War novels, including written military fiction; War films, military fiction in cinema; Military and war video games; Subgenres of military fiction include: Military science fiction; Naval fiction; Indian military fiction (of India)

  7. The Makioka Sisters - Wikipedia

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    The main branch lives in Osaka, at the family home, and consists of the eldest sister, Tsuruko, her husband, Tatsuo, who has taken the Makioka name, and their six children. The branch house is located in Ashiya , an affluent suburb between Osaka and Kobe , and consists of the second-oldest sister, Sachiko, her husband, Teinosuke (also an ...

  8. Wars of the Roses - Wikipedia

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    Wars of the Roses. The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The wars were fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York, two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.

  9. The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson) at Wikisource. " The Charge of the Light Brigade " is an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. He wrote the original version on 2 December 1854, and it was published on 9 December 1854 in The Examiner.