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Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement is a poem written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796. Like his earlier poem The Eolian Harp, it discusses Coleridge's understanding of nature and his married life, which was suffering from problems that developed after the previous poem.
Margaret Nashe (née Witchingham), mother. Thomas Nashe (baptised 30 November 1567 – c. 1601; also Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer. [1]: 5 He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, [2] his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless, and his numerous defences of the Church of England.
t. e. Washington's Farewell Address[ 1 ] is a letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. [ 2 ] He wrote it near the end of the second term of his presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia.
The Parting Glass. " The Parting Glass " (Roud 3004) is a Scottish traditional song, often sung at the end of a gathering of friends. [1][2][3][4][5] It has also long been sung in Ireland, where it remains popular and has strongly influenced how it is often sung today. [3] It was purportedly the most popular parting song sung in Scotland before ...
"Goodbye, all, goodbye. It is God's way. His will be done." [1] [note 1] — William McKinley, president of the United States (14 September 1901), dying after being shot on 6 September "My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians." [3] — Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1 October 1901), to Habibullah Khan
Welcome and Farewell. Friederike Brion. " Welcome and Farewell " (German: " Willkommen und Abschied ") is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from the collection Sesenheimer Lieder [de]. It was published for the first time in 1775 in the women's magazine Iris [de]. Franz Schubert set it to music as a lied (D.767).
James Farewell's poem The Irish Hudibras (1689) was published in the wake of William's invasion of Ireland to suppress the Jacobite uprising. It is considered to be the principal origin of the stereotype. This takes the form of a parody of book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas descends into the underworld. In the poem, this is replaced by ...
Lord Byron married Annabella Milbanke on 2 January 1815. At the end of that year, their only child was born, a girl later known as Ada Lovelace, the computer programmer. Over the next few months, their marriage crumbled, and in March 1816 they made a legal settlement of separation. That month, Byron composed "Fare Thee Well" and enclosed a note ...