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The poem chronicles William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign as seen through the eyes of an idealistic sixteen-year-old boy who strongly supports the Democratic Party candidate. [4] While attending a Springfield, Illinois rally with his best girl, the young lovers hear the famous Cross of Gold speech recited by Bryan, a former United ...
He has also written a book of football poems, 50 Ways to Score a Goal (2021). His first novel, Diary of a Somebody (2019), was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award for First Novel, and his poem "Refugees" has been published as an illustrated book for children. [5] [6] In 2023, he published a book of "seasonally adjusted poems", And So This Is ...
Mary Bryan was born Mary Lagdon on June 15, 1780, in North Petherton in Somerset, England. [1] [2] Her parents were Edmund Langdon and Mary Ballam.Bryan was the eldest child of her family and had three younger siblings, Anna, Julia, and John Ballam, who appear in some of her poems.
"But we coped with the sadness, and we wait for death from one moment to the next." [95] — Mohammad Jawad al Jaza'iri, Iraqi cleric, one of the ringleaders of the anti-British uprising in Najaf (May 1918); final lines of poem written prior to his execution "Don't bother with me. Take care of my good men." [96]
Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (21 November 1787 – 5 October 1874) was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. Bryan Waller Procter Born
Mrs. Piatt's Select Poems: a Voyage to the Fortunate Isles and Other Poems. 1886; Child's-World Ballads: Three Little Emigrants, a Romance of Cork Harbour, 1884, etc. 1887; The Witch in the Glass, etc. 1888; An Irish Wild-Flower, etc. 1891; An Enchanted Castle, and Other Poems: Pictures, Portraits and People in Ireland. 1893; Poems. 1894 ...
Bryan Callen (born January 26, 1967) [1] [2] [3] is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and podcaster. He studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse . [ 4 ] Callen initiated his career as one of the original cast members on the sketch comedy series MADtv . [ 5 ]
His brothers ran a successful retail business in Egypt with large stores in Cairo and Alexandria, and branches in Port Said and Khartoum. Robert Bryan spent most of his winters there, returning to Caernarfon each summer. [2] [3] Between 1905 and 1909 he was a teacher at Rhostryfan. He died in Cairo, Egypt, on 5 May 1920, and was buried there ...