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The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, with the first 4,000 copies being sold within two months. A United States edition appeared some seven months later.
Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
Epithalamion is a poem celebrating a marriage. An epithalamium is a song or poem written specifically for a bride on her way to the marital chamber. In Spenser's work, he is spending the day anxiously awaiting to marry Elizabeth Boyle. The poem describes the day in detail.
The Songs of Bhanushingho Thakur; Poetry 1884 Shaishab Sangeet: Poems of Childhood; Poetry 1884 Chhabi o Gan: Pictures and Songs; Songs 1885 Rabi Chhaya: The Shadow of the Sun; Essays 1885 Alochona: Discussions; Pamphlet 1885 Rammohan Roy: A pamphlet on Ram Mohan Roy; Poetry 1886 Kari o Komal: Sharps and Flats; Short story 1886 Ghater Katha (or ...
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
It was originally among the Greeks a song in praise of bride and bridegroom, sung by a number of boys and girls at the door of the nuptial chamber. According to the scholiast on Theocritus , one form was employed at night, and another, to rouse the bride and bridegroom on the following morning.
Children's Carnival Op. 25 (1894) Three Pieces, Op. 28 (1894) Children's Album, Op. 36 (1897) Scottish Legend and Gavotte Fantastique, Op. 54 (1903) Variations on Balkan Themes, Op. 60 (1904) Four Eskimo Pieces, Op. 64 (1907) Les Rêves de Colombine, Op. 65 (1907) Prelude and Fugue, Op. 81 (1914) From Blackbird Hills, Op. 83 (1922) Fantasia ...
A black wedding, also known as "shvartse khasene" in Yiddish, or a plague wedding, referred to as "mageyfe khasene" in Yiddish, is a Jewish tradition where a wedding takes place in times of crisis, particularly during epidemics. In this custom, the bride and groom, often impoverished orphans, beggars, or individuals with disabilities, are ...