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"My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians." [3] — Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1 October 1901), to Habibullah Khan "Come right out this way." [7] [8] — William Thomas Maxwell, American tracker and deputized sheriff (8 October 1901), telling the Smith Gang to surrender prior to the Battleground ...
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Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, an 1844 painting; Sayings of Jesus on the cross, also known as The Seven Last Words; Last Words of the Executed, a 2010 book by Robert K. Elder; The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, an unproduced screenplay by William S. Burroughs; The Last Words of David, a 1949 choral work by Randall Thompson
In the last poetry he wrote, MacBeth provides an anatomy of a cruel disease and the destruction it caused two people deeply in love. Penny and George had two children, Diana ("Lally") Francesca Ronchetti MacBeth and George Edward Morton Mann MacBeth. Poems from Oby (1982) was a Choice of the Poetry Book Society.
Describe yourself in three words or less; The seven veils of Salomé; From your valentine; Rhumba; The sisters: swansong. Evening primrose; Reverie in open air; Sic itur ad astra; Count to ten and we'll be there; Eliza, age 10, Harlem; Lullaby; Driving through; Desert backyard; Desk dreams; Now; Against flight; Looking up from the page, I am ...
Reel, according to Paul Farley, a poet and critic who was on the jury that awarded Szirtes the T. S. Eliot Prize, is a collection concerned with memory and mnemonics.The title poem memorializes Budapest and contains Hungarian street and place names, which Szirtes weaves into the English language by adhering to terza rima, the rhyme scheme made famous by Dante's Divine Comedy: [1]
Bradbury prefaces his book with the last three lines of this poem. When asked what attracted him to the line "the golden apples of the sun", he said, "[My wife] Maggie introduced me to Romantic poetry when we were dating, and I loved it. I love that line in the poem, and it was a metaphor for my story, about taking a cup full of fire from the ...