All Natalia has for Valentine's Day is the grave of her husband, Vassyl, a Ukrainian soldier killed at the front and now buried in the western city of Lviv. That and a purple book of poems she ...

"He was someone who saw me for who I am—not who I thought I should be. Loved me in spite of all my faults. He was the great ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

This year, the world's biggest happiness study will see 30,000 volunteers try different joy-boosting activities, to find out ...

She was widely known for “her discretion and gentle nature”. “This was a simple quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family, that was destroyed,” she says. Siobhan is now talking ...

A mother whose 12-year-old son died in the Omagh bomb believes the pain of his loss will never ease, a public inquiry has ...

“She was deeply loved by her family, friends and community, and her absence is profoundly felt by all who knew her.” One of Ms ... then read a poem to the inquiry that was written by a close relative ...

But is there truly room for another memoir in this field? What else can be said about widowhood and the tragic absence of a loved one? Despite the ubiquity of death, there is also another common ...

Anne Nolan left Good Morning Britain viewers in tears with her poignant response to her sister Linda's death - and revealed ...