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Tag: ‘Verse

King’s Coronation receives Andrew Lloyd Webber-composed anthem based on Bible verse

Posted: April 16, 2023 at 10:17 am   /   Music

King Charles’s Coronation is taking place in just a few weeks at Westminster Abbey. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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The week in verse : The Teacher by Martin Newell

Posted: May 29, 2016 at 5:30 pm   /   Music

A PENSIONER led his entire life according to a letter sent to him 80 years earlier from his teacher… Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Forgotten Verse: Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Posted: April 23, 2016 at 5:17 pm   /   Music

WILLIAM Shakespeare died 400 years ago today, on or close to his 52nd birthday. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Forgotten Verse: Easter Day by Oscar Wilde (1845 – 1900)

Posted: March 26, 2016 at 5:19 am   /   Music

IN THIS suitably topical Easter verse, Oscar Wilde contrasts the humility and poverty of the early Christians with the apparent riches and grandiose garments of some later religious leaders. This has been requested by Margaret Shaw in an email. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Forgotten verse: Loveliest Of Trees by AE Housman (1859-1936)

Posted: March 19, 2016 at 5:23 pm   /   Music

THIS week’s verse comes from AE Housman’s marvellous cycle of poems titled A Shropshire Lad which was published in 1896. It has been requested by reader Wendy May by email. Daily Express :: Music Feed

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Things We Saw Today: The Best Playing Cards in the ‘Verse – You can’t take these cards from me! (But ThinkGeek will sell them to you.)

Posted: June 10, 2015 at 9:43 am   /   Entertainment

Get your crew together for a game night with your brand new Firefly playing cards that you bought before even getting to the end of this sentence, because why wouldn’t you? (via GeekAlerts) A simple Google search goes a long way in this extensive comic about how not to derail conversations about gender identity. (via BoingBoing) Marvel […]

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