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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 1900s · 16 with this theme Show all eras

Attack

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Attack

by Siegfried Sassoon · English

8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967 (~81)

Dreams

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Dreams

by Edgar A. Guest · English

20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959 (~78)

Elegy in April and September

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Elegy in April and September

by Wilfred Owen · English

18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918 (~25)

Inventory

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Inventory

by Dorothy Parker · English

22 August 1893 - 7 June 1967 (~74)

Irish Ivy

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Irish Ivy

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

June

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June

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

King John's Christmas

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King John's Christmas

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

Now by the path I climbed, I journey back

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Now by the path I climbed, I journey back

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Now Let No Charitable Hope

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Now Let No Charitable Hope

by Elinor Wylie · English

7 September 1885 - 16 December 1928 (~43)

Promise

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Promise

by Paul Laurence Dunbar · English

27 June 1872 - 9 February 1906 (~34)

Roastbeef

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Roastbeef

by Gertrude Stein · English

3 February 1874 - 27 July 1946 (~72)

Sea-Hoardings

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Sea-Hoardings

by Cale Young Rice · English

7 December 1872 - 24 January 1943 (~71)

Star of Ethiopia

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Star of Ethiopia

by Lucian B. Watkins · English

25 May 1879 - 2 February 1921 (~42)

The heart once broken is a heart no more

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The heart once broken is a heart no more

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Negro Soldiers

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The Negro Soldiers

by Roscoe C. Jamison · English

c. 1888 - 28 March 1918 (~30)

What Have I to Sorrow O'er?

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What Have I to Sorrow O'er?

by George Reginald Margetson · English

1877 - c. 1952 (~75)

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