Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Full text. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady at Wikisource. " Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady ", also called " Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady ", is a poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, first published in his Works of 1717. [ 1] Though only 82 lines long, it has become one of Pope's most celebrated pieces.
Meic Stephens was born on 23 July 1938 in the village of Treforest, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan.He was educated at Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School [1] and then studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduating in 1961, at the University of Rennes, Brittany, and the University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd.
Elegy [12] To Lavinia [12] (Note: Lavinia means Mrs Hoffman, maiden Miss Murray) On reading some Poems by the African Poetess [12] Ode to Melvyn [12] The Triumph of Reason. Inscribed to Leandra. [12] On the purpose to which the avenue adjoining Trinity Church has of late been dedicated, 1779.
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
Only one early manuscript of Y Gododdin is known, the Book of Aneirin, thought to date from the second half of the 13th century.The currently accepted view is that this manuscript contains the work of two scribes, usually known as A and B. Scribe A wrote down 88 stanzas of the poem, [a] then left a blank page before writing down four related poems known as Gorchanau.
—from "Six Years Later"," Trans. Richard Wilbur In 1955, Brodsky began writing his own poetry and producing literary translations. He circulated them in secret, and some were published by the underground journal, Sintaksis (Syntax, Russian: Си́нтаксис). His writings were apolitical. By 1958 he was already well known in literary circles for his poems "The Jewish cemetery near ...
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a ...
An elegy for the dead Cynddylan, not to be confused with the probably seventh-century awdl-poem of the same name. A stray verse 17 On the burial of Cynddylan. Stafell Gynddylan 18–33 A meditation on the abandoned hall of Cynddylan. Eryr Eli 34–39 A meditation on the eagle of Eli (an unidentified place) and how he eats dead warriors. Eryr ...