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Lucretia S. Gruber argues that the poem is original in that it uplifts the feminine to the divine. In Christian tradition, the feminine is negatively perceived - for example, it is a woman, Eve, that causes the fall of man - and angels in Christian tradition are usually male. Vigny, in his poem, created an angel woman to instead try to redeem ...
Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe, was ne'er beguil'd! And I wept both night and day And he wip'd my tears away And I wept both day and night And hid from him my hearts delight So he took his wings and fled: Then the morn blush'd rosy red: I dried my tears & armed my fears, With ten thousand shields and spears. Soon my Angel came again;
The Fall of the Angels is a Miltonesque epic poem by John William Polidori concerned with the creation of the world. It was published anonymously in 1821 only months before Polidori's death. The only known contemporary review of the poem was a negative one, published on 5 May 1821.
The blessed angels sing. But with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not The love-song which they bring; – Oh hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing! And ye, beneath life's crushing load, Whose forms are ...
The Herald Angels sing, / 'Glory to the new-born King ' ". [2] In 1840—a hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems—Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and it is music from this cantata, adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of "Hark ...
"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. He retains his love for her after her death.
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Dūš dīdam ke malā'ek dar-e meyxāne zadand is a ghazal by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz.The poem is no. 184 in the edition of Hafez's works by Muhammad Qazvini and Qasem Ghani (1941), [1] and 179 in the edition of Parviz Natel-Khānlari (2nd ed. 1983).