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Annabel Lee at Wikisource. " Annabel Lee " is the last complete poem [ 1] composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. [ 2] 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.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. Virginia Eliza Poe ( née Clemm; August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) was the wife of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple's relationship. Though their marriage was loving, some ...
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
James, brother of Jesus. Jason of Thessalonica. John Mark. Joseph Barsabbas. Judas Barsabbas. Judas of Galilee. Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus. Justus of Jerusalem.
The [Book of the] Acts of Solomon ( Hebrew: ספר דברי שלמה, romanized : sêp̄er diḇrê Šəlōmōh) is a lost text referred to in 1 Kings 11:41, which reads: And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? In 2 Chronicles 9:29–31 the names of the ...
The Actes and Monuments (full title: Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church ), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day. It includes a polemical account of the ...
Annabel Lee. For Roderick's first wife, Annabel Lee, his windfall is her downfall. She loses custody of their children Frederick and Tamerlane, who are lured away by their father's money ...
The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles make up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts. [1] The author is not named in either volume. [2] According to a Church tradition, first attested by Irenaeus (c. 130 – c. 202 AD), he was the Luke named as a companion of Paul in three of the Pauline letters, but "a critical consensus emphasizes the countless contradictions between the ...