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First they came ... Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. " First they came ... " ( German: Zuerst kamen sie ...) is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
Twitter user Ronnie Joyce came across the poem above on the wall of a bar in London, England. While at first the text seems dreary and depressing, the poem actually has a really beautiful message.
The poem reappears, this time sung by Frodo, varied with "weary feet" to suit his mood, shortly before he sees a Ringwraith; and a third time, at the end of the book, by a much aged, sleepy, forgetful, dying Bilbo in Rivendell, when the poem has shifted register to "But I at last with weary feet / Will turn towards the lighted inn, My evening ...
The Gate of the Year. "The Gate of the Year" is the popular name given to a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins. The poem was originally published with the title, "God Knows" by the author. Haskins studied and taught at the London School of Economics in the first half of the twentieth century.
The People at Large: 2004: Autopilot Off "The 12th Day" Make a Sound: 2004: Beastie Boys "An Open Letter to NYC" To the 5 Boroughs: 2004: A general song about New York City, includes the lyrics "since 9/11, we're still livin' and lovin', life we've been given." and "two towers down, but you're still in the game." [32] Black 47 "Mychal" New York ...
The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer.' (30.24–25) There was, nevertheless, an alternative tradition also ascribed to Aesop in which the ant was seen as a bad example. This appears as a counter-fable and is numbered 166 in the Perry Index. [15] It relates that the ant was once a man who was always busy ...
Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Died. 18 March 1958. (1958-03-18) (aged 83) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Occupation. Classical scholar. John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.
This Is Just To Say. This Is Just to Say. (Wall poem in The Hague) " This Is Just to Say " (1934) is an imagist poem [ 1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it was a note left on a kitchen table.