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A Buckingham Palace spokesman said that the verse "very much reflected her thoughts on how the nation should celebrate the life of the Queen Mother. To move on." [4] The piece was published as the preface to the order of service for the Queen Mother's funeral in Westminster Abbey on 9 April 2002, with authorship stated as "Anonymous". [4] [5]
"A Psalm of Life" is a poem written by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, often subtitled "What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist". [1] Longfellow wrote the poem not long after the death of his first wife and while thinking about how to make the best of life.
If it were not for hope the heart would break; If it were a snake, it would have bit you; If the shoe fits, wear it; If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain; If wealth is lost, nothing is lost. If health is lost, something is lost. If character is lost, everything is lost
“The widowhood effect is the observation that when a spouse dies, the surviving spouse has an elevated risk of death,” Dawn Carr, professor of sociology and director of the Claude Pepper ...
In 133 cantos, including the prologue and the epilogue, Tennyson uses the stylistic beats of tetrameter to address the subjects of spiritual loss and themes of nostalgia, philosophic speculation, and Romantic fantasy in service to mourning the death of his friend, the poet A. H. Hallam; thus, in Canto IX, Tennyson describes the return of the ...
H. G. Wells quotes the seventh stanza of the hymn in the first chapter – "The End Closes in upon Mind" – of the last of the 146 books he published during his lifetime, the bleak Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), and adds his own comment: "But hitherto other sons have appeared, and now only does life pass plainly into a phase of complete ...
The top of the College Football Playoff rankings should stay the same. But there will be change in the top 10. Our prediction for how it shakes out.
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