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  2. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - Wikipedia

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    The poem is one of several that Whitman wrote on Lincoln's death. Although Whitman did not consider the poem to be among his best, it has been compared in both effect and quality to several acclaimed works of English literature, including elegies such as John Milton ' s Lycidas (1637) and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais (1821). [citation needed]

  3. List of discount shops in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Discount branded health, home and beauty. The Range: 1989 Chris Dawson: 148 Discount home and hardware originally called CDS Superstores This Is It Famous Value Shops 6 Chain of discount shops located in Devon, Dorset and Somerset [5] Tiger: 2005 Zebra A/S 46 Danish discount shop based primarily in the South East Trade Counters c.1990s 2

  4. Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner by Walter Crane in the limerick collection "Baby's Own Aesop" (1887). The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three ...

  5. List of symphonic poems - Wikipedia

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    One of the most prolific (and significant) contributors to the genre; compositions marked with an asterisk were inspired by Finnish mythology: Kullervo, Op. 7 (1891–1892, withdrawn 1893) * [considered variously as a choral symphony and as a cycle of five tone poems] En saga, Op. 9 (1892, revised 1902) Spring Song, Op. 16 (1894, revised 1895)

  6. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Johnny Cash 's " Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes," from Ben Jonson 's poem "Song: To Celia." Anna Dennis and Voice of Music 's "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May," from Robert Herrick 's poem " To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Rudyard Kipling's poem, " If," is adapted by Joni Mitchell on her album, Shine.

  7. Discounts and allowances - Wikipedia

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    Discounts and allowances are reductions to a basic price of goods or services.. They can occur anywhere in the distribution channel, modifying either the manufacturer's list price (determined by the manufacturer and often printed on the package), the retail price (set by the retailer and often attached to the product with a sticker), or the list price (which is quoted to a potential buyer ...

  8. Ottava rima - Wikipedia

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    Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of mock-heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio. The ottava rima stanza in English consists of eight iambic lines, usually iambic pentameters.

  9. Ithaca (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Poems based on Homer's works were the only influenced by traditional classic Greek works that he included in his Poems 1905–1915. He based several poems on Homer's Iliad, but "Ithaca" is the only one he drew from the Odyssey. [4] The poem describes Odysseus's journey home after the end of the Trojan War. Cavafy describes Odysseus seeing ...