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Hill, David Octavius

(Encyclopedia) Hill, David Octavius, 1802–70, and Robert Adamson, 1821–48, Scottish pioneer photographers. Hill was a painter of romantic Scottish landscapes. In 1843 he was commissioned to make a…

Walt Whitman: Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Joy, Shipmate, Joy!Joy, shipmate, Joy! (Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,) Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She…

Brewer's: Joy

The seven joys of the Virgin: (1) The annunciation; (2) the visitation; (3) the nativity; (4) the adoration of the three kings; (5) the presentation in the temple; (6) the discovery of her…

Joy Ride

Director:John DahlWriters:Clay Tarver and J.J. Adams20th Century Fox; R; 105 minutesRelease:10/01Cast:Steven Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski It's best to get things out in the open as…

Bell, John Joy

(Encyclopedia) Bell, John Joy, 1871–1934, Scottish author. He wrote a number of humorous stories and plays, frequently in dialect, of life in Glasgow, but is best remembered for his story Wee…

Poems: Infant Joy

by WilliamBlakeNurse's SongA DreamInfant Joy "I have no name; I am but two days old." What shall I call thee? "I happy am, Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee! Pretty joy…

Sara Teasedale: Joy

JoyI am wild, I will sing to the trees, I will sing to the stars in the sky, I love, I am loved, he is mine, Now at last I can die!I am sandaled with wind and with flame, I have heart-…

Harjo, Joy

(Encyclopedia) Harjo, Joy, 1951–, Native American poet and activist, b. Tulsa, Okla., B.A. Univ. of New Mexico, 1976, M.F.A. Univ. of Iowa, 1978. Her poems are collected in The Last Song (1975), She…