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For your tomorrow, we gave our today. He was the author of an item in The Times , 6 February 1918, page 7, headed "Four Epitaphs" composed for graves and memorials to those fallen in battle – each covering different situations of death.
He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away! When I came home last night at three, The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall, I couldn't see him there at all! Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... Last night I saw upon the stair, A little man who ...
Each time we said goodbye, just as we’d always done, I’d wrap my arms around him in a hug. He’d kiss my cheek and smile, and then he’d say, “Please text me when you get home.”
Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. [1] (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Two of his novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and Requiem for a Dream (1978), explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of which he appeared in.
Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black progress. But King did something that eludes many of ...
Little is known about Seleoane, the daughter of a South African emigrant who grew up in Britain. Even her age — 58, according to BBC ’s reporting, but 61, according to The Standard ’s ...
"Just a Common Soldier", also known as "A Soldier Died Today", is a poem written in 1987. Written and published in 1987 by Canadian veteran and columnist A. Lawrence Vaincourt, it now appears in a number of anthologies and newspapers, particularly around Remembrance Day .
He told the Guardian that "the first I knew of it was during the week of the Queen Mother's funeral. We read it in the Times. The words were slightly different, but there it was... I was shocked. At first, I couldn't believe it. I felt proud, humbled. I wasn't aware that people were using it for words of comfort when they'd lost loved ones."