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The Garden" is a widely anthologized poem by the seventeenth-century English poet, Andrew Marvell. The poem was first published posthumously in Miscellaneous Poems (1681). [ 1 ] “ The Garden” is one of several poems by Marvell to feature gardens, including his “Nymph Complaining for the Death her Fawn,” “The Mower Against Gardens ...
Mary Jean Chan is a Hong Kong-Chinese poet, lecturer, editor and critic whose debut poetry collection, Flèche (Faber, 2019), won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry. Chan's second book, Bright Fear , was published by Faber & Faber in 2023.
Mary Torrans was born on a farm near Jackson, Michigan, on April 25, 1838. [3] Her parents were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.Lathrap's childhood was passed in Marshall, where she was educated in the public schools.
Mary Morison Webster (1894 – 1980) was a Scottish-born novelist and poet who came to South Africa with her family in 1920. She lived in Johannesburg , where she was an influential book reviewer for The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Times for 40 years.
Mary Clarissa "May" Byron (née Gillington; 1861 – 5 November 1936) was a British writer and poet, best known for her abridgements of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan books. She published under the names May Byron , M.C. Gillington and Maurice Clare .
She married Thomas Grace in 1744 in London. [2] Reverend Thomas Bradbury after Grace [3] In 1749 a painting by her of the Reverend Thomas Bradbury was published after it was engraved by John Faber. The National Portrait Gallery has copies of this print and another, again after Mary Grace, of Thomas Bradbury, but engraved by Jonathan Spilsbury. [3]
"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is an English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed.
The Annunciation - Convent of San Marco, Florence. The term hortus conclusus is derived from the Vulgate Bible's Canticle of Canticles (also called the Song of Songs or Song of Solomon) 4:12, in Latin: "Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus" ("A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.") [6] This provided the shared ...