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Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching by forced marches in South Africa during the Second Boer War (which had ended in 1902). It has been said that if the ...
The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry). Some of the poems, such as "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found", were moved by Blake to Songs of Innocence and were frequently moved between the two books. [note 1] The poems are listed below: [9]
Although Valtorta wrote about 15,000 pages during the years 1943-1947, only 10,000 of these (mostly written from 1944-1947) were used in the work which was at first called The Poem of the Man-God. The additional pages were later published as The Notebooks. [1] The Poem contains over 650 reported episodes in the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary ...
In the 1988 book The Satanic Verses, the poem is alluded to on page 405 when a character (Joshi) writes a poem called "I sing the Body Eclectic". The 1995 book I Sing the Body Electronic, by Fred Moody, chronicles Microsoft's push into multimedia. We Sing the Body Electric is the title of the debut album by American hardcore band Sincebyman.
"The Life That I Have" (sometimes referred to as "Yours") is a short poem written by Leo Marks and used as a poem code in the Second World War. In the war, famous poems were used to encrypt messages. This was, however, found to be insecure because enemy cryptanalysts were able to locate the original from published sources. Marks countered this ...
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.
The King of Hearts. Illustration by W. W. Denslow. There has been speculation about a model for the Queen of Hearts. In The Real Personage of Mother Goose, Katherine Elwes Thomas claims the King and Queen of Hearts are based on Elizabeth of Bohemia and the events that resulted in the outbreak of the Thirty Years War.
A Light in the Attic is a book of poems by American poet, writer, and musician Shel Silverstein. The book consists of 135 poems accompanied by illustrations also created by Silverstein. [ 1 ] It was first published by Harper & Row Junior Books in 1981 and was a bestseller for months after its publication, [ 2 ] but it has also been the subject ...