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John Masey Wright and John Rogers' illustration of the poem, c. 1841 "Auld Lang Syne" (Scots pronunciation: [ˈɔːl(d) lɑŋ ˈsəi̯n]) [a] [1] is a Scottish song. In the English-speaking world, it is traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve/Hogmanay.
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2 ] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
On 28 December 1925, 30-year-old Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. According to Wolf Ehrlich, Yesenin's final poem, Goodbye my friend, goodbye (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья), was written by him the day before he died. Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room ...
In reference to the Aug. 11 article “Goodbye, Old Friend: Beloved elephant Suki dies at 60, Tacoma zoo announces,” I’d like to point out that we don’t cause beloved friends to suffer.
In addition to his works of poetry and his translations, Kinnell published one novel (Black Light, 1966) and one children's book (How the Alligator Missed Breakfast, 1982). Kinnell wrote two elegies for his close friend, the poet James Wright, upon the latter's death in 1980. They appear in From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright.
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On the verge of his 99th birthday, film legend Dick Van Dyke said he's not afraid to die.. The Emmy-winning actor starred in Coldplay's new music video for the track "All My Love," in which Van ...
Poem: "Old friend from Taoyuan" (桃源憶故人 taoyuan yi guren) by Qin Shaoyou (秦少游) from Song era "My Unexpected Feelings" (有誰知我此時情; You sheizhi wo zishi qing) – 3:52 Music by Wong Jim, arranged by Joseph Koo Poem: "Partridge at the sky" (鷓鴣天 zhegu tian) by Nie Shengqiong (聶勝瓊) from Song era