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"La Morte amoureuse" (in English: "The Dead Woman in Love") is a short story written by Théophile Gautier and published in La Chronique de Paris in 1836. It tells the story of a priest named Romuald who falls in love with Clarimonde, a beautiful woman who turns out to be a vampire. In English translations the story has been titled "Clarimonde ...
"It is a bad cause which cannot bear the words of a dying man." [17] [note 94] — Henry Vane the Younger, English politician, statesman and colonial governor (14 June 1662), prior to execution by beheading for treason "My God, forsake me not." [17] [note 95] — Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and theologian (19 August 1662)
The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are envious. He retains his love for her after her death. There has been debate over who, if anyone, was the inspiration for "Annabel Lee". Though many women have been suggested, Poe's wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe is one of the ...
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide." [citation needed] — Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee (10 September 1813), to his son Death of Poniatowski by January Suchodolski
The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes lines attributed to Joseph Glanvill (which suggest that life is sustainable only through willpower) shortly before dying. After her death, the narrator marries the Lady Rowena.
Like a bittersweet scene straight out of "The Notebook," a video has surfaced of a 92-year-old man singing a love song to his dying wife in her hospital room.
In one of the most touching stories of the holidays, Des Moines radio station KSTZ recently granted Brenda Schmitz the wish she asked for before the mother of four died of ovarian cancer in August ...
The poem uses Poe's frequent theme of "the death of a beautiful woman," which he considered to be "the most poetical topic in the world."[3] The use of this theme has often been suggested to be autobiographical by Poe critics and biographers, stemming from the repeated loss of women throughout Poe's life, including his mother Eliza Poe and his foster mother Frances Allan. [4]