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  2. Success is counted sweetest - Wikipedia

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    As first published under the title "Success" in A Masque of Poets, 1878. " Success is counted sweetest " is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson written in 1859 and published anonymously in 1864. The poem uses the images of a victorious army and one dying warrior to suggest that only one who has suffered defeat can understand success.

  3. Casey at the Bat - Wikipedia

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    Casey at the Bat. "Casey at the Bat" as it first appeared, June 3, 1888. " Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 " is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based ...

  4. Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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    James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...

  5. Bessie Anderson Stanley - Wikipedia

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    Bessie Anderson Stanley. Bessie Anderson Stanley (born Caroline Elizabeth Anderson, March 25, 1879 – October 2, 1952) was an American writer, the author of the poem "Success" ("What is success?" or "What Constitutes Success?"), which is often incorrectly attributed [1] to Ralph Waldo Emerson [2][3] or Robert Louis Stevenson.

  6. Jaco Jacobs - Wikipedia

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    www.jacojacobs.co.za. Jaco Jacobs (born 1980) is a South African children's author who writes in Afrikaans. Jacobs was born in the South African town of Carnarvon, Northern Cape. He started writing at a young age and sold his first short stories to magazines while still in high school. [1] To date, he has published more than 260 books for ...

  7. Thinking (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Thinking. " Thinking " is a poem written by Walter D. Wintle, a poet who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. Little to nothing is known about any details of his life. "Thinking" is also known as " The Man Who Thinks He Can ". In the 20th century, different versions of the poem have been published.

  8. Robert W. Service - Wikipedia

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    Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon ". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty. When his bank sent him to the Yukon ...

  9. NYC schools chief whose home was raided by feds recites ...

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    The city’s embattled schools chief had the audience at his annual address Tuesday oddly read a poem with him that Nelson Mandela “recited everyday while locked up”— after delivering a ...