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"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 ]
1. “The smile of a daughter is the secret purpose of every father.” — Unknown 2. “No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.”
Sister quotes are great for birthday cards, just-thinking-about-you texts or even a reminder that you still love them even when they annoy you. Read on for some of the best sister quotes out there ...
These father-daughter quotes celebrate the sweet bond between dads and their little girls. Find emotional and funny sayings from musicians, authors and poets. 78 father-daughter quotes that speak ...
Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...
The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: [1] "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair." As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as ...
65 Heartwarming Father-Daughter Quotes MoMo Productions - Getty Images. ... Perfect for writing in a card, these adorable father-daughter quotes will put a smile on Dad’s face.
Letter to My Daughter (2009) is the third book of essays by African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou.By the time it was published, Angelou had written two other books of essays, several volumes of poetry, and six autobiographies.