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Best Christmas Poems. 1. Jesus Christ Emmanuel. J ourneying to Bethlehem, a long and tiring trek. E very bed was full that night, no matter where they checked. S table is empty, someone said, a ...
By Christina Georgina Rossetti Frontispiece of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti From 1842 onward Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems. Most of them imitated her favoured poets. In 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads, while drawing on narratives from the Bible, folk tales and ...
Biography. Barker on stage at the 1980 Towersey Folk Festival. Barker was born in Manchester, England, on 30 January 1947. [2] He studied accountancy before he realised that he had a talent for writing. [2] At the beginning of his career he toured around folk music venues as a solo performer, and later with The Mrs Ackroyd Band (named after his ...
Crowell was born Grace Noll in Inland Township in Cedar County, Iowa, to Adam and Sarah Noll. [2] She was educated at the German-English college in Wilton, Iowa, and received her B.A. in 1901. [1][2] That same year, she married Norman H. Crowell, with whom she had three sons, Dean, Reid, and Norton. [1][2] Crowell and her husband moved to ...
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
Signature. Arthur Gordon Linkletter (born Gordon Arthur Kelly[1][2][3] or Arthur Gordon Kelly; [4][2][5][6] sources differ; July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, which aired on NBC ...
Funeral Blues. " Funeral Blues ", or " Stop all the clocks ", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin Britten.
Francis Thompson. Francis Joseph Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet. He spent three years on the streets of London, supporting himself with menial ...