The Aria is from Henry Purcell's early English Opera of 1689. Dido Queen of Carthage laments the departure of her Trojan lover Aeneas and resolves to die. She sings When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in thy breast; Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! forget my fate. It [...] Read more
Funeral Poems, Readings, Music, Quotations & Thoughts
Mother
Published on Feb 14, 2017
Edgar Guest wrote some 11,000 poems in his life, published in newspapers and books and heard on his radio shows. He was a popular poet, never a literary one, much loved in America where he lived and in England where he was born. Some people find his writing sentimental but I love the plain language and the memorability of his verses. He voices [...] Read more