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“hope” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 28 BCE 1 / 12 1500s 1 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 2 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 4 / 161 1800s 32 / 683 1850s 33 / 937 1900s 16 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1600s · 2 with this theme Show all eras

The Primrose
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The Primrose

by Robert Herrick · English

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24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

The spring of joy is dry
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The spring of joy is dry

by Martin Peerson · English

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c. 1571 - 16 January 1651 (~80)

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