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Robert Lax (November 30, 1915 – September 26, 2000) was an American poet, known in particular for his association with Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton. Another friend of his youth was the painter Ad Reinhardt. After a long period of drifting from job to job about the world, Lax settled on the island of Patmos during the latter part of ...
Flaming Marble (not to be confused with the verse poem of the same name) (1,001 words) This is a dream that comes to me often: Etchings in Ivory (Chapbook) 1968: First "prose poem" in the Etchings in Ivory cycle: Flappers flicker and flap and flirt : 12: Flappers flicker and flap and flirt: The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval: Mar 2007
Rose was born in the West Indies in 1806 [2] or 1808, [3] and is believed to have migrated to Salford as a child. Though himself a gentleman of independent means, he was associated with a group of working class poets known as the Sun Inn Group, who met regularly at the Sun Inn on Long Millgate, Manchester.
The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.
The poem's title forewarns the reader of the pessimistic tone Southwell uses to describe life, as in the line "Life is but losse, where death is deemed gaine." Being next to God is the perfect way to achieve spiritual bliss: "To him I live, for him I hope to dye" is Southwell's manner of informing the reader of the reason for his existence ...
The poem is about the father/son relationship – recalling the poet's memories of his father, realizing that despite the distance between them there was a kind of love, real and intangible, shown by the father's efforts to improve his son's life, rather than by gifts or demonstrative affection.
Savannah Guthrie, whose new book, "Mostly What God Does," is out now, sat down with her TODAY colleagues to talk about faith and God.
An inscription from lines 16 and 17 of the poem on a building at Ohio State University. "Rabbi ben Ezra" is a poem by Robert Browning about the famous Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra (1092–1167), one of the great Jewish poets and scholars of the 12th century.