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Alexander Posey was born on August 3, 1873, near present Eufaula, Creek Nation.He was the oldest of twelve children, and his parents were Lewis Henderson "Hence" Posey, of Scots-Irish Muskogee Creek [3] ancestry, from the Creek Berryhill family and Nancy (Phillips) Posey (Creek name Pohas Harjo), who was Muscogee Creek and a member of the Harjo family.
At the end of the film, these lines of an Alexander Pope poem are displayed: Wise Wretch! with Pleasures too refin'd to please, With too much Spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought: You purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live. [4]
The last of Pushkin's four 'Southern Poems' written during his exile in the south of the Russian Empire, The Gypsies is also considered to be the most mature of these Southern poems, and has been praised for originality and its engagement with psychological and moral issues. [2] [3] The poem has inspired at least eighteen operas and several ...
William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems [8] Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom and Italy: A Lume Spento, Pound's first poetry collection (the title translates as "a dim light") published at his own expense in Venice; A Quinzaine for this Yule, London [6]
August 3 – Alexander Posey (drowned 1908), Native American poet, journalist, humorist and politician; August 13 – Dora Adele Shoemaker (died 1962), American poet and playwright; October 10 – George Cabot Lodge (died 1909) American; December 7 – Willa Cather (died 1947), American novelist and poet; December 11 – Tilly Aston (died 1947 ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Milwaukee coach Doc Rivers has heard and seen enough. He's convinced there will be an NBA team in Las Vegas. “Yeah, they're going to get it,” Rivers said.
Modern Love by George Meredith is a sequence of fifty 16-line sonnets about the failure of a marriage, an episodic verse narrative that has been described as "a novella in verse". [1] Earlier working titles for the sequence were "The Love-Match" and then "The Tragedy of Modern Love". [ 2 ]
The coworker of a newly married woman says she used their recent company holiday party to swindle wedding gifts. After sharing a "sob story" about how she wasn't given enough money from her guests ...