Who is Henry Kirk White

Henry Kirke White (21 March 1785 – 19 October 1806) was an English poet and hymn-writer. He died at the young age of 21.

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White was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, a trade for which he was himself intended. However, he was greatly attracted to book-learning. By age seven, he was giving reading lessons (unbeknownst to the rest of the family, being offered after the household were abed) to a family servant. After being briefly apprenticed to a stocking-weaver, he was articled to a lawyer, George Coldham. While in this position, he excelled in studying Latin and Greek. When his health deteriorated due to tuberculosis, his employers gave him leave of absence for a month. He chose to live in Wilford at the crossroads, opposite Wilford House between 1804 ...
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Stevemushero: saw in harm's way - one of john wayne's last films, about wwii naval campaign after pearl harbor - the last hollywood big-budget all-star black & white movie, plus kirk douglas, henry fonda, and others - all in their prime. here with burgess meredith:
Brandypapii: i love multi-faceted people. you don’t have to be any one thing. you can be everything. yes i’m an extrovert and i am also an introvert. i listen to j hus and also kirk franklin. i am a harlot and also a lover boy. i like white wine and also like red. i’m all of these things pls.
Stephenmoore902: very pleased with my fantasy football team. qb: hurts wr: waddle wr: lazard rb: henry rb: conner te: gobert flex: akers wrs: kirk, olave, burks. rbs: gainwell, white. te: smith, jr.
Afcstuff: arsenal first-half team vs. ipswich: leno; bellerín, white, mari, cedric; partey, maitland-niles, sambi; pepe, nketiah, nelson. arsenal second-half team: okonkwo; walters, kirk, awe, sousa; smith, oulad m’hand, patino; hutchinson, balogun, flores. (henry-francis & ogungbo subs).
Tennessee812: john wayne, henry fonda, kirk douglas, robert mitchum, all of the great, white,actors, actresses, of the real, the real, great america are tumbling over in their graves at how the white race is the minority in our own country, and, has been taken over by these blacks,who think
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The Garden Of Shadow
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Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind
Against the perfect flowers: thy garden's close
Is grown a wilderness, where none shall find
One strayed, last petal of one last year's rose.

O bright, bright hair! O mouth like a ripe fruit!
Can famine be so nigh to harvesting?
Love, that was songful, with a broken lute
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