He fails who feebly crawls and creeps, Who stands up bravely wins the day. A star of hope gives aid and cheer To those who look and press ahead, And makes success seem very near As on to fortune we are led. My Friend, press on! with kind regard For all the friends that wish you...
The speaker says that even if, by some chance, he hadn’t learned all of this, he still would not allow himself to lose his positive outlook. Addressing his sister, the speaker says that this is because she is there with him in this landscape. Calling her his closest friend, the speake...
The speaker prayed in the German language, in a town in Poland that was utterly destroyed by endless wars, a town whose name is so common that the speaker's Polish "friend"—whom she refers to using a derogatory slur—says there must be at least twelve of them. Because of this, she...
Outside the claims of his business career, George Macmillan was deeply interested in farming and music; but the chief devotion of his life was to the literature, history and archreology of Greece and Rome. Not only was he a close personal friend of the most eminent classical scholars of ...
6、ts broke,小镜子,打破了,Papa's going to buy you a billy-goat.爸爸给你买个小山羊。If that billy-goat runs away,小山羊,跑掉了。Papa's going to buy you another today.爸爸今天再去给你买一只。One of the simplest kinds of poems are those like B and C that list things.像(B)和(C)...
While living in Olney he collaborated on ‘The Olney Hymns’ with his friend John Newton. -bio via the Cowper and Newton Museum This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe 4 分钟...
who disappeared into those shadows. I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, ...
Who Didis a Victorian novel (1895) by Grant Allen. “taotsey” may be related to ‘tutti’ type words i.e. ‘all’. Finnegans Wake is constructed from such layers of meaning and reference. The trick with bothFinnegans WakeandUlyssesis not to get too hung up on understanding every word...
Gilgamesh is aware that life can end abruptly, as he has seen this with his lost friend Enkidu. Gilgamesh is afraid to die so he seeks Utnapishtim in hope of gaining immortality. He knew he was going to die, yet he wanted to make the most out of what his ...
Not as the tittle of a debt unpaid To one who could to you her all resign— And thus reflecting, you will never see That your thin thought, in two small words conveyed, Was no such fleeting phantom-thought to me, But the Whole Life wherein my part was played; ...