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After he married, the couple moved to Silloth, and Harkins turned to visual art, principally painting nude and erotic portraits, many of his wife, and selling them online, as well as caring for the couple's disabled son. [1] [2] [7] They later returned to live in Carlisle. [8]
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma, in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. [1] Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, who stayed by his post on board the light cruiser HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland until he died. Kipling's son John was never referred to as "Jack" [citation needed]. The poem echoes the grief of ...
Rugyendo originally penned the poem in his Senior Six at Ntare School in Mbarara.Some time later Richard Ntiru, editor of the poetry collection Tensions, and an old schoolmate, wrote to him from Uganda Publishing House in Kampala, where he was doing vacation work, to let him know that the house was looking to collect poems originally composed in mother tongues and translated by their authors ...
In 2019, Ely’s son, Cameron, fatally stabbed his mother, Valerie, and was subsequently killed by sheriff’s deputies who responded to a 911 call. This article originally appeared on Newsbreak ...
Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...
"He's my full son that I've had my whole life, but why my wife hid that letter is beyond me." But a letter sent by the child's mother more than 50 years ago told him of his then 5-year-old son ...
As had happened with my mother, a lifetime of smoking finally caught up with him. By then his wife had died of cancer and Ben didn't like doctors. His first meeting with his oncologist didn't go well.