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David Gray (29 January 1838 – 3 December 1861) was a Scottish poet, from Merkland, Kirkintilloch. He died in his hometown aged 23. He died in his hometown aged 23. His friend and fellow poet Robert Buchanan wrote his biography in 1900.
Holograph manuscript of Gray's "Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard". The poem most likely originated in the poetry that Gray composed in 1742. William Mason, in Memoirs, discussed his friend Gray and the origins of Elegy: "I am inclined to believe that the Elegy in a Country Church-yard was begun, if not concluded, at this time [August 1742] also: Though I am aware that as it stands at ...
David Gray chronology; Mutineers (2014) Gold in a Brass Age (2019) Skellig (2021) Singles from Gold in a Brass Age "The Sapling" Released: 30 November 2018 "A Tight Ship"
Gold's value is based on faith –- like the faith you have in the U.S. dollar -- and there are many vested interests who want gold to retain its value the way it has for thousands of years.
The poem emphasizes that sometimes gold is hidden or mistaken for something else, as opposed to gaudy facades being mistaken for real gold. Strider, secretly the rightful king of Gondor, appears to be a mere Ranger. Both Tolkien's phrase and the original ask the reader to look beneath the skin, rather than judging on outward appearance. [14]
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. (A "sourdough", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) [1] It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge [2] (spelled "Lebarge" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.
Investors have been burned by past crashes, most notably in the early 1980s, when gold prices fell some 45% as the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates to stop runaway inflation; and in 2013, when ...
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [ 1 ] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry .