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"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe "Alone" is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime.The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1]
The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest. Reference to the wind and snow ...
'You left us beautiful memories, your love is still our guide.'
"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.
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy is a short satirical novel published in 1948 by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.
Double Persephone is a self-published poetry collection written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in 1961. [1] Atwood handset the book herself with a flat bed press, designed the cover with linoblocks, and only made 220 copies. [2]
A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...
100–2. Regarding the deceased's journey on the barque of Ra. [60] 103. Spell for being in the presence of Hathor. Reads: "I am one who passes by, pure and bald; O Sistrum-player, I will be in the suite of Hathor." [61] 104. Spell for sitting among the great gods. [62] 105. To satisfy the ka.