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"Tears, Idle Tears" is a lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the "songs" in his The Princess (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics.
In the early 1980s Harkins sent the piece, with other poems, to various magazines and poetry publishers, without any immediate success. Eventually it was published in a small anthology in 1999. He later said: "I believe a copy of 'Remember Me' was lying around in some publishers/poetry magazine office way back, someone picked it up and after ...
"Lines" is a poem written by English writer Emily Brontë (1818–1848) in December 1837. It is understood that the poem was written in the Haworth parsonage, two years after Brontë had left Roe Head, where she was unable to settle as a pupil. At that time, she had already lived through the death of her mother and two of her sisters.
In November 2005, the 1963 work In the Car surpassed Happy Tears' Lichtenstein work record auction price, when it sold for $16.2 million. [3] [4] Happy Tears was acquired at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, in 1964. It did not change hands until it was sold again on November 13, 2002, at auction at Christie's in New York. [5]
Lacrimae rerum (Latin: [ˈlakrɪmae̯ ˈreːrũː] [1]) is the Latin phrase for "tears of things." It derives from Book I, line 462 of the Aeneid (c. 29–19 BC), by Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 BC). Some recent quotations have included rerum lacrimae sunt or sunt lacrimae rerum meaning "there are tears of (or for) things."
Achsah Guibbory highlights "A Valediction" as an example of both the fear of death that "haunts" Donne's love poetry and his celebration of sex as something sacred; the opening draws an analogy between the lovers' parting and death, while, later on, the poem frames sex in religious overtones, noting that if the lovers were "to tell the layetie ...
The poem tells the story about a powerful girl with brown eyes. Mom recites 'uplifting' poem to daughter about loving her brown eyes: 'Her eyes are blue, yours are brown' Skip to main content
The lithograph, which shows a crying woman with her hand near her mouth, is on lightweight, off-white wove paper. It measures 16 by 24 inches (40.6 cm × 61.0 cm). [ 7 ] This image was adapted from a comic book panel from the romance comic Secret Hearts #88 (DC Comics, June 1963), [ 8 ] in the story "Escape from Loneliness," penciled by Tony ...