What is the title and who is the author of this famous poem?
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I think it may Shel Sliverstein {not positive}.  I'm not sure what it is called though.
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Well, I tried but I need to know more about the lines in the poem.   Maybe you'll have better luck with these sites.\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/\n\nhttp://www.allexperts.com/user.cgi?m=4&expID=50938&catID=678\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12717\n\nhttp://www.thent.com/poetry.htm\n\nhttp://lii.org/search/file/poetry
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Title- The Rain's Lament\nWhat- filled with depressing poems of my pain\nWhy-to show other's what goes on in my head, and to get it all out
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:}\nHaven’t read it but it sounded like agreat title\nI tried to find it on Google and then Amazon   No luck.   Who was the author?
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poems of different country(epics) man i need to pay attention in Reading Class a little more
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I agree that <http://www.100words.net/entry/read_member_batch.cfm?entry_member=Laura%20A%20Hill&entry_batch=November&entry_year=2003> is the only site that talks about this poem.  Don't try pinkmonkey.com and the other sites.  I couldn't find the poem comments in their results.
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"Once in an ancient city, whose name I no longer remember,\nRaised aloft on a column, a brazen statute of Justice\nStood in the public square, upholding the scales in its left hand,\nAnd in its right a sword, as an emblem that justice presided\nOver the laws of the land, and the hearts and homes of the people.      310\nEven the birds had built their nests in the scales of the balance,\nHaving no fear of the sword that flashed in the sunshine above them.\nBut in the course of time the laws of the land were corrupted;\nMight took the place of right, and the weak were oppressed, and the mighty\nRuled with an iron rod. Then it chanced in a nobleman's palace          315\nThat a necklace of pearls was lost, and ere long a suspicion\nFell on an orphan girl who lived as maid in the household.\nShe, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold,\nPatiently met her doom at the foot of the statue of Justice.\nAs to her Father in heaven her innocent spirit ascended,                320\nLo! o'er the city a tempest rose; and the bolts of the thunder\nSmote the statue of bronze, and hurled in wrath from its left hand\nDown on the pavement below the clattering scales of the balance,\nAnd in the hollow thereof was found the nest of a magpie,\nInto whose clay-built walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven."
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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Sure, but you're question is a bit vague. What, specifically, do you want to know? I can type out the entire poem for you, if that's what you need.
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Sir Walter Scott - Marmion - Canto vi. - stanza 17\n\n"Oh what a tangled web we weave,\n  when first we practice to deceive."
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not sure just know i love the poem where it goes..I am nobody who are you? are you nobody too? then there is a pair of us. Shh don't tell they'll parish us.  how dreary to be somebody, how public like a frog, to live the live long day in an admiring bog
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Unknown author\nFor those who manned the battle line the bugle whispers low--- and Freedom has a taste and price the protected never know..\nIt's not from "Song Of Myself"-\nby Walt Whitman\nFrom the book "Leaves of Grass"
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Just fyi I found the poem its\n"I carry your heart" by E E Cummings
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Beowulf (c. 700-1000 A.D.) is a heroic epic poem. At 3,182 lines, it is notable for its length in comparison to other Old English poems. It represents about 10% of the extant corpus of Old English poetry. The poem is untitled in the manuscript, but has been known as Beowulf since the early 19th century. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of a Germanic tribe from southern Sweden called the Geats, travels to Denmark to help defeat a monster named Grendel. He later returns to Geatland, where he becomes king, and when he is old he kills a dragon and dies. Although dealing primarily with Scandinavian matters, the work has risen to such prominence that it is sometimes called "England's national epic".
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And the title of the book is....?
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This is 19 lines, but it is a great poem and a fantastic oral presentation!  Good luck!\n\n \nDylan Thomas. Funny-looking chap, but chicks dug him. \nDo not go gentle into that good night,\nOld age should burn and rave at close of day; \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \n\n\nThough wise men at their end know dark is right, \nBecause their words had forked no lightning they \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \n\n\nGood men, the last wave by, crying how bright \nTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \n\n\nWild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, \nAnd learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \n\n\nGrave men, near death, who see with blinding sight \nBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \n\n\nAnd you, my father, there on the sad height, \nCurse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \n\n\nDylan Thomas, 1951 or 1952 \n\n\nA Villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. The word is French, derived from Italian villanella, the feminine of villanello, rustic; from villano, peasant; from Vulgar Latin villanus; from Latin villa, a country house. \n\n"Addressed to the poet's father as he approached blindness and death. The relevant aspect of the relationship was Thomas's profound respect for his father's uncompromising independence of mind, now tamed by illness. In the face of strong emotion, the poet sets himself the task of mastering it in the difficult form of the villanelle. Five tercets are followed by a quatrain, with the first and last line of the stanza repeated alternately as the last line of the subsequent stanzas and gathered into a couplet at the end of the quatrain. And all this on only two rhymes. Thomas further compounds his difficulty by having each line contain 10 syllables".
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www.google.com\n\nthen search for the authors name and put 'poems' next to it, and you should find a huge list of them