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The poem was adapted as the lyrics in the song "Prayer" by Lizzie West. The last four lines of the poem were recited among others in Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. The poem is read by Lisa (played by Kerry Godliman), the dying wife of lead character Tony (played by Ricky Gervais) in the final episode of the Netflix series After Life.
"Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective of an unborn child, the poem expresses the author's fear at what the world's tyranny can do to the innocence of a child and blames the human race for the destruction that was gripping the world at the time.
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. It is written to Anne , his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees , whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [ 1 ]
"The Children March" is a poem by Australian poet Elizabeth Riddell. [ 1 ] It was first published in Australian Poetry 1943 edited by H. M. Green [ 2 ] in 1944, and later in several of the author's poetry collections and a number of other Australian poetry anthologies.
Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901, born in Joplin. His family would purposefully roam, and Hughes spent much of his youth in Kansas ...
Leunig, a fifth-generation Australian, [1] was born on 2 June 1945 in East Melbourne, the eldest of five children. [2] [3] [4] He said he traced his family's ancestry to the Harz, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany), in the 16th century. [5]
Canadian singer the Weeknd references this prayer in his song "Big Sleep" from his 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow, where featured artist Giorgio Moroder recites the lines "Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep, angels watch me through the night, wake me up with light" in the second verse.
The original Kindertodtenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833–34 [1] in an outpouring of grief following the illness (scarlet fever) and death of two of his children. Karen Painter describes the poems thus: "Rückert's 428 poems on the death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the psychological ...