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
John Harris (poet) died in 1884 having requested that he should be buried at Treslothan Chapel, near the village of Troon. There has been some revival of interest in his work, and recently, the book "The Cornish Poet" was brought out by the John Harris Society, containing his collected works. John Harris (poet) John Harris FRHS (1820–1884) was a Cornish poet. He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in April 1879 for being ″"distinguished in letters"″. Harris was born and raised in a two-bedroom cottage on the slopes of Bolenowe, a small hamlet near Camborne, Cornwall, in England. He was the