Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"The Poet's Burial for Love" survives in 11 manuscripts, [5] a comparatively small number for a poem attributed to Dafydd ap Gwilym. [4] They are mostly rather late, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with the exception of National Library of Wales MS Brogyntyn 1, which can be dated to c. 1553.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "The poems, a mixture of ballads and lyrics, celebrated all 'Fair Girls' and 'all Gray hourses', for Ogilvie believed that 'Golden and Gray are the loves to hold'...it is in lyrics such as 'A Telltale Tryst' and 'The Bush, My Lover', where the loveliness of fair girls blends with the ...
The Old Whim Horse is a poem by Australian writer and poet Edward Dyson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 30 July 1892, [ 1 ] and later in the poet's collection Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines (1896).
A horse known as a “gentle giant” is to take part in the funeral procession of the Queen. Apollo the Drum Horse will be ridden by Lance Corporal Chris Diggle from the Band of the Household ...
William Henry Ogilvie (21 August 1869 – 30 January 1963) was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complexion.
For a time, Miller's poem "Columbus" was one of the most widely known American poems, memorized and recited by legions of schoolchildren. Miller is remembered today, among other reasons, for lines from his poem in honor of "Burns and Byron": In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The English journalist and horseman Alistair Stewart who, when writing in the Daily Mail about the death of a family pony said, "Ronald Duncan’s poem, The Horse, captures it perfectly: ‘Nobility without pride, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity.’" [7] The poem has been reproduced in a number of specialist equine publications.