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Reverend Walter Stanley Senior (10 May 1876 – 23 February 1938) was an English scholar, poet and member of the Church Missionary Society. [1] Popularly known as the "Bard of Lanka ", [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] his works are still widely read in the island nation.
"I Am – Somebody" is a poem often recited by Reverend Jesse Jackson, and was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students. [1] A similar poem was written in the early 1940s by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr., senior pastor at the Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta ...
Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut. [1] He graduated from Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville, New York with the class of 1939 as vice president of the senior class; he was credited with the "prettiest hair."
John Donne (/ d ĘŚ n / DUN; 1571 or 1572 [a] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. [2]
The Gresham's School chapel bell is inscribed with the last line of the poem, plus an attribution to the donor: "Ring in the Christ that is to be, Donum Dedit J. R. E." [1] Manchester Town Hall 's hour bell, completed in 1850, which is called "Great Abel" after the Town Clerk, Abel Heywood, who oversaw the construction of the building, has the ...
St Erconwald's Catholic Church Walton-on-Thames [65] St Erconwald's Roman Catholic Church, Wembley; St Paul's Cathedral holds a sung Eucharist for Erkenwald, conducted by the Bishop of London. [66] Between 1931 and 1990 a senior school in Barking was called Erkenwald School. [67] It is now a campus of Mayesbrook Park School.
He then worked with a partner in 1916 to establish the Los Alamos Ranch School. [3] Church attended Santa Fe High School in addition to separate boarding schools in California and Connecticut, where she began studying and publishing poetry. [2] After turning eighteen, she traveled to Massachusetts to attend Smith College from 1922 through 1924 ...
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 ...