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Gone From My Sight", also known as the "Parable of Immortality" and "What Is Dying" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. [1]
I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow; I am the diamond glints on the snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain; I am the gentle autumn's rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft star that shines at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry.
On 30 June 1882, the day of the execution of Guiteau for the assassination of President James Garfield, Guiteau announced, after famously dancing his way to the gallows, that he would read a poem that he had written. Guiteau said that he had written the poem, entitled "I Am Going to the Lordy", at about 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time that day ...
Scott O'Grady's book Return With Honor, which has a full transcript of the poem. One Small Step , a children's novel by Philip Kerr , reprints the poem in full before the Author's Note. A reporter in the film First Man is heard quoting the poem ('slipped the surly bonds of Earth') while describing the Gemini 8 mission that Neil Armstrong took ...
A clerihew (/ ˈ k l ɛr ɪ h j uː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.
He intends to write a book, the White House confirmed last week. "As I close out this journey with you, I'm just as passionate about our work as I was as a 29-year-old kid. When I got elected, I ...
Margaret or Peggy was born the youngest daughter on the Fingland Estate near St John's Town of Dalry in Kircudbrightshire, now Dumfries and Galloway, however her father, James Chalmers, [7] was forced through financial difficulties [3] [2] to sell up and rent Braehead Farm on Haugh Road, two miles or so to the south of Mauchline, East Ayrshire where she could have first encountered Robert ...
She went on to praise Culkin for “surviving” huge fame at such a young age. “This beautiful 10-year-old little boy was called a superstar, a moneymaker, one of the hottest leading young men ...