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Clare Muldaur is the daughter of musician Geoff Muldaur and his second spouse. [1]She released two solo albums before becoming a member of the Reasons. [2] She cites Bessie Smith as an early favorite, in addition to the music of the 1930s and '40s, French films, and the movie musical Singin' in the Rain.
The poem is about a lady in a family of aristocrats, and includes numerous references to nobility, such as to earls or coats of arms. One such line from the poem goes, "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood." This line gave the title to the film Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy [1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri.
Twitter user Ronnie Joyce came across the poem above on the wall of a bar in London, England. While at first the text seems dreary and depressing, the poem actually has a really beautiful message.
“Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, and white aligns with God’s promise of life everlasting and the purity, hope and goodness that Jesus’ life and death represent,” Sawaya says.
The idea of Christmas celebrations didn't take until the mid-1800s and the first Christmas card was commissioned only in 1843. As exchanging cards grew more popular, Victorians sought designs to ...
Lady Clare was first published in 1842. After 1851 no alterations were made. [1]This poem was suggested by Susan Ferrier's 1824 historical novel The Inheritance.A comparison with the plot of Ferrier's novel will show how Tennyson adapted the tale to his ballad:
Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .