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Bani Adam (Persian: بنیآدم), meaning "Sons of Adam" or "Human Beings", is a 13th-century Persian poem by Iranian poet Saadi Shirazi from his Gulistan. The poem calls humans limbs of one body, all created equal, and when one limb is hurt, the whole body shall be in unease.
The Planescape campaign setting of Dungeons & Dragons features a character called the Lady of Pain, which was inspired by the poem's central character, as explored by author Troy Denning in his 1997 novel Pages of Pain which directly quotes Dolores and reimagines many elements of the poem into the narrative. The short comics story "How They Met ...
There is a pain — so utter —" is a poem written by American poet Emily Dickinson. It was not published during her lifetime. It was not published during her lifetime. Like many of Dickinson's poems, it was substantially changed when it was first published in 1929.
Though a rather short poem, and for that matter, the shortest poem on the page, "The Lilly" puts forth a great deal of symbolism and figurative language to be interpreted in numerous ways. Though there are many different interpretations out there, the experts seem to agree on two main themes for this poem.
Critic Charles R. Anderson, in Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise, claimed it was Dickinson's "finest poem on despair." [ 15 ] Similarly, Inder Nath Kher, in The Landscape of Absence: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry , lauds it as one of Emily Dickinson's best poems and a well-balanced expression of absence and presence.
In the notebook the first stanza of "Never pain to tell thy love" has been marked for deletion. Two variant readings are sometimes found in published versions of the poem. In the first line "seek" was deleted by Blake and replaced by "pain", and the final line replaced the deleted version "He took her with a sigh".
This time around, the focus should be on short-term pain for long-term gain. Find more from Alex Turk at Stretford Paddock [BBC] Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
Mu isamaa on minu arm" ("My Fatherland is My Love") is an Estonian poem by Lydia Koidula. The poem was first set to music for the first Estonian Song Festival in 1869 by Aleksander Kunileid . "Mu isamaa on minu arm" became a popular patriotic song when a new melody was composed by Gustav Ernesaks in 1944. [ 1 ]