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Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
Suzanne Somers' final gift from the love of her life, Alan Hamel, has been revealed. ET has learned that Hamel, who was married to the Three's Company star for 46 years before her death, gave her ...
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death.
"I wasn't a 'Beatle wife. You might say an ex-Beatle wife,'" Olivia notes. "When I met George, we sort of changed lanes. We went off and had a more normal, quiet life."
After he married, the couple moved to Silloth, and Harkins turned to visual art, principally painting nude and erotic portraits, many of his wife, and selling them online, as well as caring for the couple's disabled son. [1] [2] [7] They later returned to live in Carlisle. [8]
Sweet Birthday Wishes for a Best Friend. Happy birthday to someone who makes the world a better, brighter place. Cheers to many more years of celebrating your birthday together.
The poem discusses proper decorum in the wake of the death of a young woman, described as "the queenliest dead that ever died so young". The poem concludes: "No dirge shall I upraise,/ But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!" Lenore's fiancé, Guy de Vere, finds it inappropriate to "mourn" the dead; rather, one should ...