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Himmler's corpse after his suicide by cyanide poisoning, May 1945 "I am Heinrich Himmler." [236] — Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi officer (23 May 1945), last words said during his suicide shortly after bitting into a hidden potassium cyanide pill before collapsing dead onto the floor of the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg.
The poem was published in the Sangamo Journal, [2] a newspaper in which Lincoln had previously published other works. The poem uses a similar meter, sync, dictation and tone with many other poems published by Lincoln and according to Richard Miller, the man who discovered the poem, the theme of the interplay between rationality and madness is "especially Lincolnian in spirit". [3]
The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. The poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest. Reference to the wind and snow ...
Mary Ann Dawes Blackett (fl. 1786-1791) was an English author of two collections of poetry and one book of conduct literature. Her Suicide; a poem (1789) addressed what was considered by foreigners and English alike to be a pressing national problem. [1]
The punk band The Menzingers wrote a song titled "Richard Corry" which was inspired by the poem. The difference in spelling from Cory to Corry is because the band has a personal friend whose last name is Corry. The American composer John Woods Duke wrote Three Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, which includes the full text of the poem "Richard ...
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
Poet Laureate Mikhayla Robinson Smith reads an original poem to the Athens-Clarke County Board of Commissioners on April 16. It certainly strains credulity to suggest any government meeting could ...
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer.A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry.