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Reply to Li Shuyi (Chinese: 答李淑一) is a poem written on May 11, 1957 by Mao Zedong to Li Shuyi, a friend of Mao's first wife Yang Kaihui and the widow of the executed Communist leader Liu Zhixun. In the poem, "poplar" refers to Yang Kaihui, whose surname Yang means "poplar", and who also had been executed; and "willow" is the literal ...
The chorus to Cher Lloyd's 2011 single "Swagger Jagger" was seen as heavily borrowed from the melody of "Oh My Darling Clementine" [23] The melody is used in "Picked a Strawberry", a library storytime song made by the librarian duo called Jbrary. [24] The melody is used in the song "There Are Seven Days (In A Week)", from Barney & Friends. [25]
When I beheld my darling: She looked so neat and charming In every high degree; She looked so neat and nimble, O, [ A-washing | A-hanging | A-starching | A-ironing | A-folding | A-airing | A-wearing ] of her linen, O, Refrain Dashing away with the smoothing iron, Dashing away with the smoothing iron, She stole my heart away. [3]
"My love is a lighthouse / So darling, my darling, look for the light." ... "We talked about stillness, intimacy and specificity, and the way she moved, she almost treated it like poetry," he said ...
The following is the list of 244 poems attributed to Philip Larkin. Untitled poems are identified by their first lines and marked with an ellipsis.Completion dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format, and are tagged "(best known date)" if the date is not definitive.
Darling, I am growing old, Silver threads among the gold, Shine upon my brow today, Life is fading fast away. But, my darling, you will be, Always young and fair to me, Yes, my darling, you will be Always young and fair to me. Chorus: Darling, I am growing old, Silver threads among the gold, Shine upon my brow today; Life is fading fast away.
The historical relation of the song to the 1856 American slave song "Darling Nellie Gray" published as the work of Benjamin Hanby is unclear. The tune is very similar and the chorus of Hanby's song contains the lines "Oh, my darling Nellie Gray, they have taken you away, I'll never see my darling anymore".
The book is Lee's first poetry collection in six years since his last, The Undressing, from 2018; his very first, Rose, was published in 1986.The Invention of the Darling's poems tackle similar subject matter to what Lee's poetry has been known for: "family, exile, intimacy, and the divine."