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"Lord Randall", or "Lord Randal", (Roud 10, Child 12) is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad [1] consisting of dialogue between a young Lord and his mother. [2] Similar ballads can be found across Europe in many languages, including Danish, German, Magyar, Irish, Swedish, and Wendish.
Mother Earth image, 17th century alchemical text, Atalanta Fugiens. The pre-Socratic philosophers abstracted the entirety of phenomena of the world as singular: physis, and this was inherited by Aristotle. [citation needed] The word "nature" comes from the Latin word, "natura", meaning birth or character [see nature (philosophy)].
The Miorița ballad is summarized and discussed by Mircea Eliade in Zalmoxis, The Vanishing God (1972), [21] and plays a fundamental role in his novel The Forbidden Forest. The poem was quoted extensively by Patrick Leigh Fermor in his account [52] of the second part of a journey on foot from Holland to Constantinople in 1933–34. He includes ...
Additionally, the Anglo-Saxon goddess Erce (possibly meaning 'bright, pure') is called the 'mother of Earth' (eorþan modor) and likely identified with Mother Earth herself in a ritual to be performed on an unfruitful plough-land. [13] She is also called Fīra Mōdor ('Mother of men') in Old English poetry. [5]
"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem [1] composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. [ 2 ] The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are envious.
Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
Commemorative Plaque in Preston, England. Robert William Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, [3] the third of ten children. His father, also Robert Service, was a banker from Kilwinning, Scotland, who had been transferred to England. [4]
Mother Earth may refer to: The Earth goddess in any of the world's mythologies; Mother goddess; Mother Nature, a common personification of the Earth and its biosphere ...