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"Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective of an unborn child, the poem expresses the author's fear at what the world's tyranny can do to the innocence of a child and blames the human race for the destruction that was gripping the world at the time.
Joseph Mary Plunkett (Irish: Seosamh Máire Pluincéid; 21 November 1887 – 4 May 1916) was an Irish republican, poet and journalist.As a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, he was one of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
MacNeice also started sending poems to T. S. Eliot at around this time, and although Eliot did not feel that they merited Faber and Faber publishing a volume of poems, several were published in Eliot's journal The Criterion. On 15 May 1934, Louis and Mary's son Daniel John MacNeice was born.
Tessa Rumsey (1970) [1] is an American poet based in San Francisco. [2] Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The New Republic. She is a graduate in 1992 in Philosophy from Sarah Lawrence College.
Alexander published Poems on Subjects in the Old Testament in 1854, which includes the poem "The Burial of Moses," often utilized by Mark Twain during his encore performances. [3] Her daughter, Eleanor Jane Alexander, was also a poet. Alexander was involved in charitable work for much of her life.
Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in 1955, the eldest of six children. She subsequently moved to London with her parents where she attended St. Elizabeth's Primary School in Kingston upon Thames.
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. It is written to Anne , his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees , whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [ 1 ]
The Poems of Edward Rowland Sill (1902). A memorial volume was privately printed by his friends in 1887. A biographical sketch in The Poetical Works of Edward Rowland Sill , edited by William Belmont Parker with Mrs Sill's assistance was printed in 1906, and his poem "The Fool's Prayer" (1879) was selected for inclusion in the Yale Book of ...