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In 1883, English painter Walter Langley created "For Men Must Work and Women Must Weep", a watercolour painting based on Kingsley's poem. [5] The song (as arranged by Hullah) was a frequently sung by popular vocalists such as Antoinette Sterling and Charlotte Sainton-Dolby, each of whom gave distinctly different interpretations. Sterling once ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; Help. Poems written or published in 1883. ... Pages in category "1883 poems"
Signature. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before ...
George Moses Horton (c. 1798–after 1867), was an African-American poet from North Carolina who was enslaved until Union troops, carrying the Emancipation Proclamation, reached North Carolina (1865). Horton is the first African-American author to be published in the United States. (Phillis Wheatley 's poetry was published earlier, in the ...
Print. La Légende des siècles (French pronunciation: [la leʒɑ̃d de sjɛkl], lit. 'The Legend of the Ages') is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, conceived as an immense depiction of the history and evolution of humanity. Written intermittently between 1855 and 1876 while Hugo worked in exile on numerous other projects, the poems were ...
May 23 – Cyprian Norwid, 61 (born 1821 ), Polish -born. June 14. Charles Timothy Brooks, 96, American poet and translator. Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. After 1883 – George Moses Horton (born c. 1797 ), African- American.
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
The Surrender Tree has been viewed by many and seen as a powerful book of poems. The Horn Book Magazine writes “A powerful narrative in free verse...haunting.” [2] “Hauntingly beautiful, revealing pieces of Cuba’s troubled past through the poetry of hidden moments” said School Library Journal . [3]