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Pen name. Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone. Jay Whit. Uncle Sidney. James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the " Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental.
Written by Rob Halford and Glenn Tipton, the song is all about "unyielding love". Clannad released a rendition of "The Last Rose of Summer" on their 1980 album Crann Úll. The poem is alluded to in the Grateful Dead song "Black Muddy River", which is sung to the original tune, on their 1987 album In the Dark.
Lines. 8. " Music, When Soft Voices Die " is a major poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1824 in London by John and Henry L. Hunt with a preface by Mary Shelley. [ 1] The poem is one of the most anthologised, influential, and well-known of Shelley's works. [ 2][ 3]
August 23, 2016 at 3:35 PM. Poetry Stamping. Twitter has been especially poetic lately as people are sharing their own takes of a popular rhyme. The meme, which always starts with "roses are red ...
In Flanders Fields. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
For the song "A Shropshire Lad" by Half Man Half Biscuit, see Voyage to the Bottom of the Road. A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896. Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers.
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
Roses Are Red. "Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [ 1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [ 2]