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"The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" is a poem written by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1843. It details the religious persecution of Cassandra Southwick's youngest daughter Provided Southwick, a Quaker woman who lived in Salem, Massachusetts and is the only white female known to be put up at auction as a slave in the United States.
Her poems are straightforward, sensitive and serious, as in The Well (Кладенецът), a fable-like piece relating a well she dug when a little girl to the wellspring of poetry in her soul. They often are undeniably feminine – as in the poem The Eternal , in which the writer contemplates the body of a dead mother, or Evening Prayer ...
In real life, however, Bernadette was in torment during the last day of her life, asking the other nuns to pray for her soul, and her last words—said twice—were "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for me, a poor sinner," from the Hail Mary prayer. Following this, according to Sister Nathalie Portat, she made the sign of the cross, drank a few ...
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
Sonnet 136 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
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The poem was adapted as the lyrics in the song "Prayer" by Lizzie West. The last four lines of the poem were recited among others in Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy . The poem is read by Lisa (played by Kerry Godliman ), the dying wife of lead character Tony (played by Ricky Gervais ) in the final episode of the Netflix series After Life .
Isabella Whitney (most likely born between 1546 and 1548, died after 1624); fl. 1566–1600) was arguably the first female poet and professional woman writer in England. . More specifically, Whitney is credited with being the first Englishwoman to have penned and published original secular poetry under her own n