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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Also Known As lyric poetry

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Mick Jagger
British singer
Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key
American lawyer
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
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Ernst Moritz Arndt
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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John Perry Barlow
American author, lyricist, and activist
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Brazilian songwriter, composer, and arranger
Cole Porter
Cole Porter
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
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Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins
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Thomas Campion
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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
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Beranger, detail of a lithograph by Metzmacher, 1835
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
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Maurice Druon
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Loesser, Frank
Frank Loesser
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry