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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
49. Missing my mom in Heaven this Mother’s Day. The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her. 50. Another year without you, Mom—it doesn’t get easier, but my love grows ...
1. “The smile of a daughter is the secret purpose of every father.” — Unknown 2. “No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.”
Straight from the mouths of Beyoncé and Princess Diana, here are 51 mother-daughter quotes to share with your number one. RELATED: 51 Best Friend Quotes to Share with Yours Immediately 1.
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. It is written to Anne , his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees , whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [ 1 ]
Throughout the poems, the narrator's mixture of mourning and antipathy is accompanied by denial and guilt; his denial of the Lucy–Dorothy relationship and the lack of narratorial responsibility for the death of Lucy allow him to escape from questioning his desires for the death of his sister. [29]
“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.” — Jim Bishop “It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing ...
Lucy Gray is generally not included with Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, [4] even though it is a poem that mentions a character named Lucy. [3] The poem is excluded from the series because the traditional "Lucy" poems are uncertain about the age of Lucy and her actual relationship with the narrator, and Lucy Gray provides exact details on both. [5]