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Short Love Quotes for Him and Her. 61. "Take my hand, take my whole life too. For I can't help falling in love with you." — Elvis Presley. 62. "Love is being stupid together."
Though J. R. R. Tolkien wrote poems starting from childhood, his poetry was less successful than the prose in his books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (which both contained poems embedded in the text). The first poem in the collection is from 1910, addressed to Tolkien's future wife Edith Bratt. Christopher Tolkien shared drafts of poetry ...
The poems trace the last year of the marriage, and then the year after. [3] The collection contains 49 poems. The first poem, "While He Told Me", expressed the pain she felt when she realized her marriage is over, expressed as a kind of death: she refers to her marriage as her "body". [1]
Phoebe Hesketh was born in Preston, Lancashire.Her father was the pioneer radiologist Arthur E. Rayner; her mother was a violinist in the Hallé Orchestra.Among her aunts was the suffragette Edith Rigby.
Instead of speeches that are intended for others' ears, most are soliloquies. They are generally darker than the poems found in Men and Women, his previous collection, and along with The Ring and the Book these poems embody a turning point in Browning's style. Browning's poetry after this point most notably touches on religion and marital ...
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [1] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
Perhaps no poem of this class has been more universally admired than the pastoral Epithalamion of Edmund Spenser (1595), though he also has important rivals—Ben Jonson, Donne and Francis Quarles. [2] Ben Jonson's friend, Sir John Suckling, is known for his epithalamium "A Ballad Upon a Wedding." In his ballad, Suckling playfully demystifies ...
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