"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, also sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues", which tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. The most successful commercial version was recorded by the English rock group The Animals in 1964, which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, United States, Sweden, Finland and Canada.
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“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One’s relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“You’ve watched me all your life,
I’ve clothed your wife,
put your two sons through college.
What good has it done?
Sun keeps rising every morning.”
—Ray Durem (1915–1963)
“Sometimes a word will start it, like
Hands and feet, sun and gloves. The way
Is fraught with danger, you say, and I
Notice the word “fraught”....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)