It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

It may use the phrase " Lord, have mercy ", or a variant on it, as a refrain as the second line of the couplet or last line of the quatrain.

The Bears added their last run in the sixth on Alusik's double and outfield flies by Porter and Wert.

In the last of the sixth inning Mike Deegan got up to bat and hit a fast ball over the left fielder's head.

The String Quartet No. 5 was composed in 1934, and the sixth and last string quartet in 1939.

* 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

His sixth and last marriage was to Catherine Parr, more a nursemaid to him than anything else, as his health was failing ( it had declined ever since the jousting accident in 1536 ).

In his fiftieth Test, at Trent Bridge he scored 126, his sixth and last Test century and his first in 29 matches.

* 1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.

At the end of the 2010 season, the Royals finished with a 67 – 95 record, in last place in the division for the sixth time in seven years.

In 1543, Henry married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, who was able to bring the family closer together.

Servius Tullius was the sixth, and his successor Tarquinius Superbus ( Tarquin the Proud ) was the last.

The metasoma, the scorpion's tail, comprises five caudal segments ( the first tail segment looks like a last mesosoman segment ), and sixth bearing the telson ( the sting ).

The pregame show was a tribute to Apollo 17, the sixth and last mission to land on the Moon and the final one of Project Apollo.

Pampinea narrates the last tale of the day, another tale of censure ( the sixth of the day ).

Most recently, the last principle, adopted in 1985 and generally known as the Seventh Principle, " Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part ", and a sixth source ( adopted in 1995 ), " Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature " were added to explicitly include members with Neopagan, Native American, and pantheist spiritualities.

* Huineng, ( 638-713 ) sixth and last Patriarch of Chán Buddhism

* 713: Death of Dajian Huineng, sixth and last Patriarch of Chán Buddhism.

Studies using very sensitive early pregnancy tests have found that 25 % of embryos are aborted by the sixth week LMP ( since the woman's last menstrual period ), even if a woman does not realize it.

* The sixth and so far last outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England.

Lord's high standards also helped the show last another seven years after Leonard Freeman's death from heart trouble during the sixth season.

At the end of Frank Herbert's sixth and last book in the Dune series, Chapterhouse: Dune ( 1985 ), a ghola of Scytale is seemingly the only Tleilaxu Master left alive.

Saturday is the seventh and therefore last day of the week according to many commonly used calendars, but it is the second-to-last ( sixth ) day of the week according to ISO 8601 ( see below ).

Nitocris may have been the last pharaoh of the sixth dynasty.

On the last episode of the sixth season, Brynn Thayer made a guest appearance as Ben Matlock's other ( and to that point unmentioned ) daughter Leanne MacIntyre, who had become a prosecutor in Philadelphia and who had married and divorced.

The Avalanche made the Western Conference Finals for the fourth consecutive season ( and sixth overall in the last seven seasons ), meeting the Detroit Red Wings in the playoffs for the fifth time in seven years.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.

He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

It still stands as a monument to the engineering skills of the last century and still serves in the gasoline age to carry heavy traffic on U.S. Route 250 -- the old Beverly and Fairmont Turnpike.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

It is to this same tradition that most of the creative figures in the last century and a half of American theology also belong.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

With the development of fast Internet in the last part of the 20th century along with advances in computer controlled telescope mounts and CCD cameras ' Remote Telescope ' astronomy is now a viable means for amateur astronomers not aligned with major telescope facilities to partake in research and deep sky imaging.

Steam powered conveyor lifts began being used for loading and unloading ships some time in the last quarter of the 19th century .< ref name =" Wells1890 ">.

As VanSlyck ( 1991 ) showed, the last years of the 19th century saw acceptance of the idea that free libraries should be available to the American public.

In the last decade of the 6th century, Aeschylus and his family were living in the deme of Eleusis.

According to John T. Townsend, " it is not before the last decades of the second century that one finds undisputed traces of the work.

The last Akkadian inscriptions in Mesopotamia date from the 1st century AD.

Abu Salih the Armenian, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark.

The first autobiographical work in Islamic society was written in the late 11th century, by Abdallah ibn Buluggin, last Zirid king of Granada.

An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.

In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.

The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).

Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism " decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else ".

Bouldering's documented origins may be found in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy in the last quarter of the 19th century.

In the last two decades of the 20th century, DNA was used to more accurately classify plants.

Over the last half of the 20th century, historical and archaeological research has increasingly supported the theory that the remnants of the Celtic Boii were absorbed into the Roman Empire and later intermingled with other Germanic peoples who chose to stay ( or were stationed by the Romans ) in the area.

It is unknown when Habakkuk lived and preached, but the reference to the rise and advance of the Chaldeans in 1: 6-11 places him in the middle to last quarter of the 7th century BC.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).