"successful novels, notably ""Un taxi mauve"", which was adapted into the 1977 film ""The Purple Taxi"". According to Déon he has tried to include at least one Irish character in every novel he has written since he moved to the island. The title ""Horseman, Pass By!"" is taken from the poem ""Under Ben Bulben"" by W. B. Yeats. The quotation is also found on Yeats' tombstone. The book was published on 13 May 2005 through éditions Gallimard. An English translation by Clíona Ní Ríordáin was published in 2016 through The Lilliput Press. According to Déon's wife, the writer got to"
"for shame. Ye, who behold perchance this simple urn, Pass on – it honours none you wish to mourn. To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise; I never knew but one -- and here he lies. </poem> Epitaph to a Dog ""Epitaph to a Dog"" (also sometimes referred to as ""Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog"") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming"
"Epitaph to a Dog ""Epitaph to a Dog"" (also sometimes referred to as ""Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog"") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming bitten and infected. The poem is inscribed on Boatswain's tomb, which is larger than Byron's, at Newstead Abbey, Byron's estate. The sections above the poem form a memorial eulogy to Boatswain, and introduce the poem. They are often"
"documented in a poem by poet and friend of the McKeahnie family, Barcroft Boake called ""On the Range"" in which the horse being chased died when it ran into a granite outcrop. According to a letter by one of McKeahnie's sisters Lem McKeahnie, Banjo Paterson learnt of the tale in Sydney while in the presence of a friend of McKeahnie's, Mrs Jim Hassall. At the time Paterson wrote the poem, the Eucumbene River had been known as the Snowy River. The area around the upper Eucumbene and the adjacent upper Murrumbidgee was where Charlie McKeahnie had lived and worked. According"
"that the poem is not historical. He says that he has chosen to place the site of the Battle of Ethandune in the Vale of the White Horse, despite the lack of concrete evidence for this placement (many scholars now believe it was probably fought at Edington, Wiltshire). He says that he has chosen to include legends about Alfred, even if they are historically unlikely. Dedication The poem opens with a verse dedication to Chesterton's wife. He begins by commenting on Alfred and his legacy. Chesterton asks his wife to remember their travels together to research the poem, and closes"
"""Now And In A Time To Be"". The title of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's first novel, ""Horseman, Pass By,"" is derived from the last three lines of this poem. The same is true about the French writer Michel Déon's book ""Horseman, Pass By!"" Under Ben Bulben Under Ben Bulben is a poem written by celebrated Irish poet W. B. Yeats. It is believed to be one of the last poems he wrote, being drafted when he was 73, in August 1938 when his health was already poor (he died in January 1939). The phrase 'Mareotic Lake' is used by"
"the tune ""St Christopher"" by Frederick Maker. Folklore claims that Elizabeth wrote ""The Ninety and Nine"" for her brother, George Clephane (1819-1851), who had ""returned to the flock"" only a short time before his death. As the story goes, he fell from his horse and struck his head upon a rock and was killed instantly. His grave site at Fergus, Ontario, Canada has become a pilgrimage of sorts for those who admired Clephane's hymns. Other siblings were Anna Maria Clephane (c. 1823-1895) and Anna Jane Douglas Clephane (c. 1825-1910). She died at Bridgend House, near Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland where she"
"in ""The Newest Bath Guide"", quoting from and addressing Anstey. Its final couplet demonstrates how much Betjeman was indebted to him for his own art of satirical rhyming: Christopher Anstey Christopher Anstey (31 October 1724 – 3 August 1805) was an English poet who also wrote in Latin. After a period managing his family's estates, he moved permanently to Bath and died after a long public life there. His poem, ""The New Bath Guide"", brought him to fame and began an easy satirical fashion that was influential throughout the second half of the 18th century. Later he wrote ""An Electoral"
"lit by the rich skies, all day. And after,"" ""Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance"" ""And wandering loveliness. He leaves a white"" ""Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance,"" ""A width, a shining peace, under the night."" The first three lines of the third poem appear engraved on the Memorial arch located at the entrance to the Royal Military College of Canada which commemorated the fallen ex-cadets from World War I onwards. The first eight lines of the third poem appear on Royal Naval Division War Memorial. The Dead (poem) The Dead is the name of two poems by"
"He had titled the poem ""Ode to the Death Angel""<poem> Oh here you come again Old chilly death of Ol' To plot out life And test immortal soul I saw you fall against the raging sea I cheated you then and now you'll not catch me I know your face It's known in every race Your speed is fast And along the way Your shadow you cast High in the sky You thought you had me then I landed safely But here you are again I see you paused upon that forward pew When you think I'm asleep I'm watching"
"recurs also in ""The Flashman Papers"" by George MacDonald Fraser, as a frequently mentioned favourite song of the anti-hero. In 1876, Whyte-Melville penned the rarely attributed, but widely recognized opening line to the short poem ""The Object of a Life"": ""To eat, drink, and be merry, because to-morrow we die."" When the Crimean War broke out, Whyte-Melville went out as a volunteer major into the Turkish irregular cavalry, but this was the only break in his literary career. Whyte-Melville lost his life in 1878 whilst hunting, falling as he galloped over a ploughed field in the Vale of White Horse."
"the water gently laps the gravelly shore and the heather blooms and Pillar and Gable keep unfailing watch. A quiet place, a lonely place. I shall go to it, for the last time, and be carried: someone who knew me in life will take me and empty me out of a little box and leave me there alone. And if you, dear reader, should get a bit of grit in your boot as you are crossing Haystacks in the years to come, please treat it with respect. It might be me."""" ~ Alfred Wainwright - from ""Memoirs of a Fellwalker"""
"mine eyes shall close in death, When I soar to worlds unknown, See Thee on Thy judgement throne, Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee. </poem> The hymn was a favourite of Prince Albert, who asked it to be played to him on his deathbed, as did Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart. It was also played at the funeral of William Gladstone. In his book ""Hymns That Have Helped"", W. T. Stead reported ""when the ""SS London"" went down in the Bay of Biscay, 11 January 1866, the last thing which the last man who left"
"for the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War thanks to the suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, a British cavalry charge due to a misunderstanding sent up a valley strongly held on three sides by the Russians, in which about 250 men were killed or wounded, and over 400 horses lost, effectively reducing the size of the mounted brigade by two thirds and destroying some of the finest light cavalry in the world to no military purpose. The British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson immortalized the battle in verse in his ""Charge of the Light Brigade"". The balaclava, a tight"
"To the Memory of Mr. Oldham To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684) is an elegy written by John Dryden (1631–1700), commemorating the death of the poet John Oldham. Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mold with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. To the same goal did both our studies drive; The last set out the soonest did arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the"
"1811 will, Byron requested that he be buried with him. The 26‐line poem ""Epitaph to a Dog"" has become one of his best-known works, but a draft of an 1830 letter by Hobhouse shows him to be the author, and that Byron decided to use Hobhouse's lengthy epitaph instead of his own, which read: ""To mark a friend's remains these stones arise/I never knew but one – and here he lies."" Byron also kept a tame bear while he was a student at Trinity, out of resentment for rules forbidding pet dogs like his beloved Boatswain. There being no mention"
"London periodical ""Polar Star"". Death of the Poet ""Death of the Poet"" () is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel on January 27, 1837, and died on the 29th. Lermontov began his first formulation of the poem (ending with the phrase ""...his lips forever sealed"") as soon as he heard of the event, and within a short time copies of the poem began to be circulated in St. Petersburg. Within days the doctor Nikolai Arendt visited Lermontov (who was ill) and told him the"
"of the poem describes the thoughts of a lone rider (the speaker), pausing at night in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, ""I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep."" In the early morning of November 23, 1963, Sid Davis of Westinghouse Broadcasting reported the arrival of President John F. Kennedy's casket to the White House. As Frost was one of the President's favorite poets, Davis concluded his report with a passage from this poem but was overcome with"
"which the last of them died. The original stone has not survived, but in 1955, the epitaph was engraved on a new stone. The text from Herodotus is: The alternative ancient reading (""peithomenoi nomίmois"") for (""rhēmasi peithomenoi"") substitutes ""laws"" or ""orders"" for ""words."" In other words, the ""orders"" are not personal but refer to official and binding phrases (the Ancient Greek term can also refer to a formal speech). The form of this ancient Greek poetry is an elegiac couplet, commonly used for epitaphs. Some English renderings are given in the table below. It is also an example of Laconian"
"assumed to form part of the poem but were written not by Byron but by his friend John Hobhouse. A letter of 1830 by Hobhouse suggests that Byron had planned to use the last two lines of his poem by way of an introductory inscription, but found he preferred Hobhouse's comparison of the attributes of dogs and people. <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;""> Near this Spot are deposited the Remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over"
"Gone from my sight ""Gone From My Sight,"" also known as the ""Parable of Immortality"" and ""What Is Dying"" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813-1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. However, it is often attributed to Henry Van Dyke, probably due to his name appearing as the author in a widely distributed booklet by Barbara Karnes entitled ""Gone from My Sight."" This ""little blue book"" has been in print"
"to death. The remaining three were sent to the castle of Chillon as prisoners, out of which two more died due to pining away. In time only the narrator lived. The Prisoner of Chillon The Prisoner of Chillon is a 392-line narrative poem by Lord Byron. Written in 1816, it chronicles the imprisonment of a Genevois monk, François Bonivard, from 1532 to 1536. On 22 June 1816, Lord Byron and his contemporary and friend Percy Bysshe Shelley were sailing on Lake Geneva (referred to as ""Lac Leman"", the French name, throughout the poem) and stopped to visit the Château de"
"The Last of the Light Brigade ""The Last of the Light Brigade"" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"". Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently"
"This poem, written in May 1828, deals with the legendary story of Ivan Mazeppa who was punished because he was caught in a love affair with a Polish nobleman's wife. The poem is organized in two parts: the first one is about Mazeppa's physical travel across the plains of Russia, strapped naked on the horse's back, until its death. The second part is about his spiritual travel to get back to life, and has been described as a kind of allegory of the creative process: ""He races, he flies, he falls. He rises again, king"". The poem cites Lord Byron"
"other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “There she comes!” </poem> Gone from my sight ""Gone From My Sight,"" also known as the ""Parable of Immortality"" and ""What Is Dying"" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813-1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. However, it is often attributed to Henry Van Dyke, probably due to his name appearing as the author in a widely distributed booklet by Barbara Karnes"
"emotion as he signed off. At the funeral of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, on October 3, 2000, his eldest son Justin rephrased the last stanza of this poem in his eulogy: ""The woods are lovely, dark and deep. He has kept his promises and earned his sleep."" Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"" is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and published in 1923 in his ""New Hampshire"" volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it ""my"
"in their previous lives, were genuinely indifferent. No likely end would (sic) bring them loss, or leave them happier than before.” An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ""An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) written in 1918 and first published in the Macmillan edition of ""The Wild Swans at Coole"" in 1919. The poem is a soliloquy given by an aviator in the First World War in which the narrator describes the circumstances surrounding his imminent death. The poem is a work that discusses the role of Irish soldiers fighting for"
"Epitaph An epitaph (from Greek ""epitaphios"" ""a funeral oration"" from ἐπί ""epi"" ""at, over"" and τάφος ""taphos"" ""tomb"") is a short text honoring a deceased person. Strictly speaking, it refers to text that is inscribed on a tombstone or plaque, but it may also be used in a figurative sense. Some epitaphs are specified by the person themselves before their death, while others are chosen by those responsible for the burial. An epitaph may be written in prose or in poem verse; poets have been known to compose their own epitaphs prior to their death, as did William Shakespeare. Most"
"Death of the Poet ""Death of the Poet"" () is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel on January 27, 1837, and died on the 29th. Lermontov began his first formulation of the poem (ending with the phrase ""...his lips forever sealed"") as soon as he heard of the event, and within a short time copies of the poem began to be circulated in St. Petersburg. Within days the doctor Nikolai Arendt visited Lermontov (who was ill) and told him the details of the death"
"a skull and the motto ""memento mori"". It is inscribed ""This stone is for the society of Coachdrivers In the Canongate It was chiefly erected by Thomas Jamieson and Robert Maving, treasurer, 1734–65"". Below this inscription is a relief sculpture of a coach and horses crossing a bridge. The drivers operated the Edinburgh to London route from White Horse Close, around to the east. Several of the Company are interred at this spot. John Frederick Lampe (1703–1751) was a composer, conductor and writer of hymn-tunes for Charles Wesley and others. His stone, just to the north of the Fettes tomb,"
"attended its opening, watching alone from the woods. Criticism of the poem is varied, Vendler observes. Children love this poem, but critics find it ""coy"" and ""lightweight"". The 'peering into shanties' metaphor is thought ""snobbish"". The exact animal employed as a metaphor for the railroad initially proves a puzzle, but at poem's end it is decidedly a horse which neighs and stops (like the Christmas Star) at a ""stable door"". The ""horrid - hooting stanza"" is the train's whistle but, at the same time, as Vendler believes, a self-criticism Dickinson makes of herself as a ""bad poet"". Harold Bloom points"
"The Horse (poem) The Horse, sometimes known as An Ode to the Horse, is a poem written by the British writer Ronald Duncan in 1954 at the request of his friend Michael Ansell, to be read at the Horse of the Year Show that Ansell founded. It has been described as his most popular poem. Duncan, who was a keen horseman, and his wife Rose Marie, bred Arabian horses on their Devonshire property. The poem is still read each year at the end of the gala evening on the Sunday night. It has been read at the event by different"
"approached. Although Hodge was not Johnson's only cat, it was Hodge whom he considered his favourite. Hodge was remembered in various forms, from biographical mentions during Johnson's life to poems written about the cat. On his death, Hodge's life was celebrated in ""An Elegy on The Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat"" by Percival Stockdale (published 1778). In this poem the phrase ""sable furr"" indicates that Hodge was a black cat; also, the fact that Stockdale was Johnson's neighbour from 1769 onwards suggests that Hodge was alive at that time. Today Hodge is remembered by a bronze statue, unveiled by"