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Alfred Edward Housman (/ ˈ h aʊ s m ən /; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
"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.
An early Alfred Lord Tennyson poem, "The Sisters", also bears a resemblance to the ballad: a sister scorned in love who murders the lover of her sister, and possibly the sister too, out of jealousy. In Germany, there is a ballad called Das steinerne Brot (stone bread) which is also sometimes known as Zwei Schwestern (two sisters). [12] [13]
Carson shared a poem on Instagram on Sept. 17 along with an in-depth remembrance and photos of him with his mother, Pattie Daly Caruso, who died at 73 of a heart attack in 2017. View this post on ...
At home, the Rizal ladies recovered a folded paper from the stove. On it was written an unsigned, untitled and undated poem of 14 five-line stanzas. The Rizals reproduced copies of the poem and sent them to Rizal's friends in the country and abroad. In 1897, Mariano Ponce in Hong Kong had the poem printed with the title "Mí último pensamiento ...
Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
The author's little sister, Meggan Killough, who died by suicide in 2014. I grew up in a family where mental health and therapy was a way of life. It was not taboo or brushed under any kind of ...
"Lines" is a poem written by English writer Emily Brontë (1818–1848) in December 1837. It is understood that the poem was written in the Haworth parsonage, two years after Brontë had left Roe Head, where she was unable to settle as a pupil. At that time, she had already lived through the death of her mother and two of her sisters.