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1. Happy birthday to the love of my life. 2. Growing old with you is my biggest blessing. Happy birthday, love. 3. I hope you have as much joy and happiness on your birthday as you give me!
Twitter user Ronnie Joyce came across the poem above on the wall of a bar in London, England. While at first the text seems dreary and depressing, the poem actually has a really beautiful message.
"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long [1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.
For nearly 40 years, 74-year-old Bill Bresnan has written a love letter to his wife Kristen every day. And nothing gets in his way. "I give her the cards just before we go to bed. I draw them ...
The poem is in blank verse and mainly uses iambic pentameter. [2] [3] The poem was inspired by Andrea del Sarto, originally named Andrea d'Agnolo, [4] a renaissance artist. The historical del Sarto was born in Florence, Italy on July 16, 1486 and died in Florence, Italy on September 29, 1530. [4] Del Sarto was the pupil of Piero di Cosimo.
This poem, a sonnet, appears in The World's Wife, published in 1999, a collection of poems. The poem is based on the famous passage from Shakespeare's will regarding his "second-best bed". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight.
The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" is a four stanza poem, written in free verse, and loosely translated by Ezra Pound from a poem by Chinese poet Li Bai, called Chánggān Xíng, or Changgan song. It first appeared in Pound's 1915 collection Cathay. It is the most widely anthologized poem of the collection. [1]
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