While I recommend you have a look at ourother Irish love poempage as well, the poems below should please almost everybody. And by the way make sure to check out our links to wedding sayings, toasts and blessings at the end of the page. I have taken them from a range of sources but...
Eileen Smith on . . . the importance of friendship “I play golf and bridge and have a lovely group of friends. We look out for each other, especially those who are widows now. Next to my husband and children, friends are one of the most important things to ...
He won the friendship and approval of many socially and intellectually influential people, such as Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Warburton, through his writing. His technical mastery of the heroic couplet, one of the main modes of English verse composition, has always attracted...
starbuck girls go by to boys that somehow remind you to your own self except instead of love they sell schemes and plans and how to maximize income and output and the most beautiful girl in the place gives her precious attention to someone who won’t even make her come, too busy trying ...
A compelling novel about friendship, power, midlife, parenthood and love set during a Harvard reunion. Five friends gather 15 years after graduating when an infamous classmate, son of the recently elected and loathed US president, winds up dead. Ceridwen Dovey graduated from Harvard in...
When they were stationed together in Dublin, they attended the Abbey Theatre (where one of Christie's plays had been staged), exchanged drafts of poems in the making, and shared hopes and plans, including co-writing a play for the Abbey. When they finally went to war, it was Ledwidge ...
Among his poems is “Big Ned” about a farmer from Brockagh, County Tyrone. While working for 4FM, the Director of the National Women’s Council of Ireland, Susan McKay, speaks out against an “uncouth and objectionable” interview McGurk conducts with her. The National Women’s Council has...
In 1923, Boyle began lessons with Ralph Vaughan Williams, which continued until the outbreak of the Second World War, and from which emerged a friendship that lasted until the English composer’s death. There was probably no living composer better suited to Boyle’s sylvan modal musical ...
点击查看答案 第3题 the beautiful actor and Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, with whom W. B. Yeats was desper ately in love for many years, but who persistently refused to marry him. She became the subject of many of his early love poems, such as ___, “No Second Troy” and “A Praye...
copy of my first poetry collection,No Continuing City, which I shyly offered to Wilson. I opened it at the sequenceWords for Jazz Perhapsand promised that I would write a poem about him one day. He held the book up to his musicians: "Look, fellas, a book of poems. Isn't that...