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To memory now I can't recall, So fill to me the parting glass, Good night and joy be with you all. Chorus: Be with you all, be with you all Good night and joy be with you all So fill to me the parting glass, Good night and joy be with you all. All the comrades that e’er I had, They’re sorry for my going away, All the sweethearts e’er I had,
Emma (Petra) Fagley. William Hughes Mearns (1875–1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mearns was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920. Mearns is remembered now as the author of the poem "Antigonish" (or "The ...
"All in the golden afternoon" is the preface poem in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The introductory poem recalls the afternoon that he improvised the story about Alice in Wonderland while on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell sisters: Lorina Charlotte (the flashing "Prima"), Alice Pleasance (the hoping "Secunda"), and Edith ...
Poet Dylan Thomas c. 1937–1938. " Do not go gentle into that good night " is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [2] the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas visited Florence with his family.
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...
Rain Rain Go Away. "Rain, Rain, Go Away". Lia Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of "Rain Rain Go Away", from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. Nursery rhyme. Published. 17th century or earlier. " Rain, Rain, Go Away " is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19096 and many different ...
8. " Music, When Soft Voices Die " is a major poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1824 in London by John and Henry L. Hunt with a preface by Mary Shelley. [1] The poem is one of the most anthologised, influential, and well-known of Shelley's works. [2][3]
Antigonish (poem) An empty stairway. " Antigonish " is a poem by the American educator and poet, William Hughes Mearns, written in 1899. It is also known as " The Little Man Who Wasn't There " and was adapted as a hit song under the latter title.