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Chief Inspector Morse, aided by Detective Sergeant (DS) Lewis, soon discovers a cryptic 'seventeenth-century' love poem by John Wilmot and a photograph of Rachel with a mysterious grey-haired man, clues which lead them to the prestigious Lonsdale College, where the rivalry between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the position of Master ...
Charles Bukowski* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories; Emily Dickinson* — virtually all of her poems; Federico García Lorca* — Diván del Tamarit, Poet in New York, Yerma, Sonnets of Dark Love; Mikhail Lermontov — Demon, The Princess of the Tide, Valerik
But this is my just reward for my pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but only my duty to my Prince." [ 15 ] : 170–171 [ note 49 ] — Thomas Wolsey , English archbishop, statesman and cardinal (29 November 1530); to the Lieutenant of the Tower of London , after falling ill on the way to London under arrest for treason
Roman pool (with associated modern superstructure) at Bath, England.The pool and Roman ruins may be the subject of the poem. "The Ruin of the Empire", or simply "The Ruin", is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles. [1]
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The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England "Do not stand by my grave and weep" is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem "Immortality", written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC) lived in the waning days of the Roman Republic, just before the Imperial era that began with Augustus.Catullus is the chief representative of a school of poets known as the poetae novi or neoteroi, both terms meaning "the new poets".
The Annales was an epic poem in fifteen books, later expanded to eighteen, covering Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of Cato the Elder in 184 BC. It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter metre used in Greek epic and didactic poetry, [ 9 ] leading it to become the standard metre for these ...