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Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire or the Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire is an Irish keen composed in the main by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, a member of the Gaelic gentry in the 18th century, who was born in County Kerry and lived near Macroom, County Cork, after her marriage to Art. The caoineadh has been described as the greatest poem written in ...
It truly feels like 2023 is the year of all the weddings. So many, in fact, that you might start to forget the details of 1) which wedding is when and where, 2) what you planned to wear, and 3 ...
Don't know what to say in a wedding card? Here are 40 appropriate, thoughtful wedding card message ideas, whether the couple are family, friends, or co-workers.
Very often this husband and wife were no Darby and Joan. Their married life was one long campaign, whereof the truces were only by night. Darby and Joan appear in William Makepeace Thackeray 's The History of Henry Esmond (1852), when the beautiful, spoiled Beatrix taunts Esmond for his seemingly hopeless infatuation with her:
Epithalamion is a poem celebrating a marriage. An epithalamium is a song or poem written specifically for a bride on her way to the marital chamber. In Spenser's work, he is spending the day anxiously awaiting to marry Elizabeth Boyle. The poem describes the day in detail.
"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]
Irish satirical poems (3 P) Y. Poetry by W. B. Yeats (44 P) Pages in category "Irish poems" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
The young woman explains that the old man's wife was a homeless beggar who married him to avoid starvation. She graphically describes the many, many attempts that the old man's wife made to consummate the marriage, only to find her elderly husband impotent. She tells the old man that if his wife has taken a lover, she well deserves one.