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The Poème de l'amour et de la mer (literally, Poem of Love and the Sea), Op. 19, is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Ernest Chausson. It was composed over an extended period between 1882 and 1892 and dedicated to Henri Duparc. Chausson would write another major work in the same genre, the Chanson perpétuelle, in 1898.
Devoid of love and light the world is a maze of confusion left by 'retreating' faith." [26] Critics have questioned the unity of the poem, noting that the sea of the opening stanza does not appear in the final stanza, while the "darkling plain" of the final line is not apparent in the opening. [27] Various solutions to this problem have been ...
"The Wave" is a poem expressing Gruffudd's homesickness as, on board a ship in a Spanish harbour, he awaits favourable weather for his return journey. [8] It is also a cywydd llatai, a love poem in which a non-human messenger is sent to the beloved, [9] in this case one of the massive North Atlantic billows for which the Bay of Biscay is known
British composer Roger Quilter set the poem to music in 1905 in the composition Love's Philosophy, Op. 3, No 1. In 2003, David Gompper set the poem to music in a score for baritone and piano. [3] Choral composer David N. Childs set the poem to music scored for a four-part women's choir and piano. [4]
The poem appears as "Go No More A-Roving" on the 2004 Leonard Cohen album Dear Heather.It was also recorded by Joan Baez on her 1964 Joan Baez/5 album, by Mike Westbrook on his 1998 album The Orchestra of Smith's Academy, and by Kris Delmhorst on her 2006 album Strange Conversation.
The most famous work under the title "The Moon over the River on a Spring Night" is a seven-syllable yuefu style long poem by Tang dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxu. It is one of the only two poems by Zhang that preserve. The poem depicts the scenery of the moonlit riverside on a spring night, with elegant wording, a lofty rhythm, and a sophisticated ...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves, Memory by memory the mind— A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs. * A poem should be equal to: Not true. For all the history of grief An empty doorway and a maple leaf. For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea— A poem should not mean But be.