Death and the Maiden (The Verlaines song) a version for the Flying Nun tribute album "Under the Influence - 21 Years of Flying Nun Records" in 2002. Boston band Prickly covered the song on their 1997 LP "Velleity." "You'll only end up like Rimbaud"<br>"Get shot by Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine..."<br> The lyrics above refer to Paul Verlaine, a 19th-century French poet. After going into a drunken rage, Verlaine shot his lover – fellow poet Arthur Rimbaud in July 1873. The Verlaines took their name from the French poet. "Shall we have our photo taken?"<br>"We'll look like Death and the Maiden"<br> This is a reference to a painting
Alan Moore (poet) is widely known for his regular articles in "The Sunday Business Post", and is the author of the best-selling "Tax Magic." Alan Moore (poet) Alan Moore (born 1960, Dublin), is an Irish writer and poet, published by Anvil Press Poetry. His first collection of poems, "Opia" (1986) was a UK Poetry Book Society Choice, a distinction for a first collection. Michael Kenneally complimented Moore's creativity in "Poetry in contemporary Irish Literature". His second collection, "How Now!" (2010) was described as "a searingly autobiographical book which bears comparison with Paul Durcan's "Daddy, Daddy"," and "a fine cumulative portrait of growing up