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Alexander Posey was born on August 3, 1873, near present Eufaula, Creek Nation.He was the oldest of twelve children, and his parents were Lewis Henderson "Hence" Posey, of Scots-Irish Muskogee Creek [3] ancestry, from the Creek Berryhill family and Nancy (Phillips) Posey (Creek name Pohas Harjo), who was Muscogee Creek and a member of the Harjo family.
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 4 – Julian Bell (killed 1937), English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members include his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, writer Quentin Bell; and writer and painter Angelica Garnett, his half-sister
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Alexander Anderson, A Song of Labour, and Other Poems [2] Robert Bridges, Poems by Robert Bridges (see also Poems 1879, 1880) [2] Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers [2] Edward Carpenter, Narcissus, and Other Poems [2] Austin Dobson, Vignettes in Rhyme [2] Dora Greenwell, Songs of Salvation [2]
At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's The Grave and Edward Young's Night-Thoughts. At its broadest, it can describe a host of poetry and prose works popular in the early and mid-eighteenth century.
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 12 – Susanna Blamire (died 1794), English poet and writer of Lallans songs; January 15 – John Aikin (died 1822), English doctor, writer and poet; February 19 – Heinrich Leopold Wagner (died 1779), German writer and poet; June 24 – John O'Keeffe (died 1833), Irish ...
[1] [2] [3] It is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justifie the wayes of God to men" (1.26). [4] It is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man.
There are interpretations that relate "Because I could not stop for Death" specifically to Christian belief in the afterlife, reading the poem from the perspective of a "delayed final reconciliation of the soul with God." [6] In the poem, the speaker joins both "Death" and "Immortality" inside the carriage that collects her, thus personifying a ...