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  2. Prayer Before Birth - Wikipedia

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    "Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective of an unborn child, the poem expresses the author's fear at what the world's tyranny can do to the innocence of a child and blames the human race for the destruction that was gripping the world at the time.

  3. Louis MacNeice - Wikipedia

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    Blind Fireworks (1929, mainly considered by MacNeice to be juvenilia and excluded from the 1949 Collected Poems) Poems (1935) Letters from Iceland (1937, with W. H. Auden, poetry and prose) The Earth Compels (1938) Autumn Journal (1939) The Last Ditch (1940) Selected Poems (1940) Plant and Phantom (1941) Springboard (1944) Prayer Before Birth ...

  4. Category:Irish poems - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Irish poems" ... Prayer Before Birth; A Prayer for My Daughter;

  5. Elizabeth Maconchy - Wikipedia

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    Nocturnal, three poems for mixed chorus and piano (1965, Cork Festival 1966) Samson and the Gates of Gaza, cantata for chorus and orchestra, text Vachel Lindsay (1963-4) And Death Shall Have No Dominion, chorus and ensemble, text Dylan Thomas (1969) Prayer before Birth for female chorus and piano, text Louis MacNeice (1972)

  6. A Prayer for My Daughter - Wikipedia

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    "A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. It is written to Anne , his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees , whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [ 1 ]

  7. Women die in child birth again and again in Grimms' tales — in "Snow White," "Cinderella," and "Rapunzel" — having served their societal duties by producing a beautiful daughter to replace her. Those fair princesses aren't exempt from violence, as many are banished to towers, trees and forests, where they perform domestic duties until saved ...

  8. Trump's pick to lead EPA was paid tens of thousands to write ...

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    Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Trump's pick to lead the EPA, made $186,000 from paid op-eds and speeches. Some of those op-eds criticized climate policies and ESG.

  9. Brendan Kennelly - Wikipedia

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    Kennelly was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, on 17 April 1936. [5] He was one of eight children of Tim Kennelly and Bridie (Ahern). His father worked as a publican and garage proprietor; his mother was a nurse. [4]