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Drawing of a fresco depicting Paris, Eros, and Oenone from the House of the Labyrinth, Pompeii. Paris, son of the king Priam and the queen Hecuba, fell in love with Oenone when he was a shepherd on the slopes of Mount Ida, having been exposed in infancy (owing to a prophecy that he would be the means of the destruction of the city of Troy) and rescued by the herdsman Agelaus.
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.
"When they did greet me father, sudden awe" 1796, September 20 1847 Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author having received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796. "Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll" 1796 1797 Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me.
Image credits: sacris5 #3. I just want my wife back. I want my wife who asked how my day was. I want my wife who reached for my hand on long car rides. I want my wife who would search slowly for ...
I grew up in the Bible Belt, thinking that men were supposed to initiate romantic relationships. I felt weird about making the first move when I met my future husband in college.
Rugyendo originally penned the poem in his Senior Six at Ntare School in Mbarara.Some time later Richard Ntiru, editor of the poetry collection Tensions, and an old schoolmate, wrote to him from Uganda Publishing House in Kampala, where he was doing vacation work, to let him know that the house was looking to collect poems originally composed in mother tongues and translated by their authors ...
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Joanna Rakoff, author of "My Salinger Year," describes the moment when she faced up the truth of her feelings—and began a more authentic life.