Songs	Artist
Careless whisper	George Michael
Forever & Always	Shania Twain
Tomorrow never dies	Sheryl Crow
La balada del pistolero	Antonio Banderas
La Tortura	Shakira&Alejandro
Heal The World	Michael Jackson
Speak softly love	Andy Williams
Fools  Rush In	Elvis Presley
Something Stupid	Robbie Williams&Nicole Kidman
Skater Boy	Avril Lavigne
I wish I was a Punk	Sandi Thom
don't know why	Norah Jones
I write sins not tragedies	Panic! At the disco
can't buy me love	The Beatles
Kiss me	Sixpence none the richer

Its been a real long time since  i UPDATED Y SITE  so this is my updated site..

Lord Alfred Tennyson is the poet of the month on my site.      

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire. His father, George Clayton Tennyson, a clergyman and rector, suffered from depression and was notoriously absentminded. Alfred began to write poetry at an early age in the style of Lord Byron. After spending four unhappy years in school he was tutored at home. 

 The year he entered Cambridge, 1827, his first published poetry appeared in Poems by Two Brothers. At Cambridge, he made such friends as Edward FitzGerald, Thackeray and Arthur Henry Hallam.

Arthur Hallam's was the most important of these friendships. Hallam, another precociously brilliant Victorian young man like Robert Browning, John Stuart Mill, and Matthew Arnold, was uniformly recognized by his contemporaries (including William Gladstone, his best friend at Eton) as having unusual promise. He and Tennyson knew each other only four years, but their intense friendship had major influence on the poet. On a visit to Somersby, Hallam met and later became engaged to Emily Tennyson, and the two friends looked forward to a life-long companionship. Hallam's death from illness in 1833 (he was only 22) shocked Tennyson profoundly, and his grief lead to most of his best poetry, including In Memoriam , "The Passing of Arthur", "Ulysses," and "Tithonus."

In 1829 Alfred beat out Thackeray, among others, for a poetry prize. The following year, his Poems, Chiefly Lyrical won some critical praise, and Alfred met Emily Sellwood, the love of his life. Arthur Hallam introduced them, and Arthur himself became engaged to Alfred's sister Emily. It was therefore quite a shock when Arthur died on 15 September 1833 of an apoplexy. That same year, Alfred's brother Edward was finally admitted to a mental asylum, where he stayed until his death in 1890. Out of this awful year came the start of In Memoriam: A.H.H., perhaps Alfred's most famous work, which wasn't actually finished until 1850. 

After marrying Emily Sellwood, whom he had already met in 1836, the couple settled in Farringford, a house in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight in 1853. From there the family moved in 1869 to Aldworth, Surrey. During these later years he produced some of his best poems.

Between 1874 and 1879, Alfred wrote several plays at the urging of a friend who owned a theatre. None of them were terribly good, but one of them ran for 67 nights, probably because the Prince and Princess of Wales liked it so much. His eyesight had gotten very bad, though fortunately he'd always composed his poems in his head, and he had Emily to act as secretary, a job which Hallam his son  took over in 1874 due to his mother's failing health. But Alfred was afraid to take on another major work that he might not live to finish. His brother Charles died in 1879, Edward FitzGerald his friend died in 1883, and Alfred was starting to feel lonely and old. The real blow came in 1886, when his son Lionel died of fever while at sea. Alfred's poem "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" was written around that time, and is a scathing, Dickensian satire of Victorian England and the horrible conditions of the poor. It isn't very typical of his work, but his baronetcy made him feel obligated to speak out on this sort of thing.

Hope you enjoy his poem which is on the poem page..It is one of my favorite poems... 

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November's poet of the month:

He is one of my favorite poets.....This is his info.

 

William Blake was born on 28 November 1757, and died on 12 August 1827. He spent his life largely in London, except from 1800 to 1803, when he lived in a cottage at Felpham, near the seaside town of Bognor, in Sussex. In 1767 he began to attend Henry Pars's drawing school in the Strand. At the age of fifteen, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, making plates from which pictures for books were printed. He later went to the Royal Academy, and at 22, he was employed as an engraver to a bookseller and publisher. When he was nearly 25, Blake married Catherine Bouchier. They had no children but were happily married for almost 45 years. In 1784, a year after he published his first volume of poems, Blake set up his own engraving business.

Many of Blake's best poems are found in two collections: Songs of Innocence (1789) to which was added, in 1794, the Songs of Experience (unlike the earlier work, never published on its own). The complete 1794 collection was called Songs of Innocence and Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Broadly speaking the collections look at human nature and society in optimistic and pessimistic terms, respectively - and Blake thinks that you need both sides to see the whole truth.

Hope you enjoy his work that I will be uploading on my site .........so do keep checking poem lovers cheers alll.......................