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Perhaps no poem of this class has been more universally admired than the pastoral Epithalamion of Edmund Spenser (1595), though he also has important rivals—Ben Jonson, Donne and Francis Quarles. [2] Ben Jonson's friend, Sir John Suckling, is known for his epithalamium "A Ballad Upon a Wedding." In his ballad, Suckling playfully demystifies ...
A version of the rhyme became familiar to many UK children when it became the theme tune of the children's TV show Magpie, which ran from 1968 to 1980. [11] The popularity of this version, performed by The Spencer Davis Group, is thought to have displaced the many regional versions that had previously existed. [12]
The "Bridal Chorus" (German: "Treulich geführt") from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto, is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world.
"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.
Having been greatly inspired by his reading of Longfellow's epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha (even later naming his own son Hiawatha), he decided to set the words to music in a choral work called Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. The score was completed in May 1898 [1] and was published by Novello before the first performance was given. [2]
"It will not be long, now, till our wedding day." She went away from me, and she moved through the fair; Where hand-slapping dealers' loud shouts rent the air. The sunlight around her did sparkle and play, Saying, "…it will not be long, now, till our wedding day." When dew falls on meadow, and moths fill the night;
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex.
Some have seen it as thoroughly heathen and among the oldest of the Eddaic poems, dating it to 900 AD. [26] [27] [28] but this view is now in the minority. [29] A number of scholars, on the other hand, dates the poem to the first half of the 13th century, [30] and collectively they have advanced four main reasons for the younger dating. [31]