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Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...
The Voyage of Máel Dúin (Old Irish: Immram Maele Dúin, Modern Irish: 'Iomramh Maoile Dhúin') is the tale of a sea voyage written in Old Irish around the end of the 1st millennium AD. The protagonist is Máel Dúin, the son of Ailill Edge-of-Battle, whose murder provides the initial impetus for the tale.
The maidens are married to Alevipoeg and Sulevipoeg but the second maiden is kidnapped by a sorcerer. They hunt for her, kill the sorcerer and recover her, she is married to their friend Olevipoeg. Canto XVI - The voyage of Kalevipoeg Kalevipoeg ponders a voyage to the end of the world. A great ship called Lennuk is created.
Maiden Voyage (Alice in Videoland album), released 2003; Maiden Voyage, a 2004 album by Bounding Main; Maiden Voyage, a 2010 album by Salyu "Maiden Voyage", the seventy-first episode of Code Lyoko; Maiden Voyage, a novel by Denton Welch "Maiden Voyage", theme song for History Channel television series Ice Road Truckers (season 7–11) by Andy ...
The poem begins with an old grey-bearded sailor, the Mariner, stopping a guest at a wedding ceremony to tell him a story of a sailing voyage he took long ago. The Wedding-Guest is at first reluctant to listen, as the ceremony is about to begin, but the mariner's glittering eye captivates him.
"Maiden Voyage" opening vamp: Dsus chord in D Dorian, [1] or mixolydian. [2] Play ⓘ "Maiden Voyage" is a jazz composition by Herbie Hancock from his 1965 album Maiden Voyage.It features Hancock's quartet – trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams – together with saxophonist George Coleman.
Also ship's magazine. The ammunition storage area aboard a warship. magnetic bearing An absolute bearing using magnetic north. magnetic north The direction towards the North Magnetic Pole. Varies slowly over time. maiden voyage The first voyage of a ship in its intended role, i.e. excluding trial trips. Maierform bow A V-shaped bow introduced in the late 1920s which allowed a ship to maintain ...
RMS Tayleur was a short-lived, full-rigged iron clipper ship chartered by the White Star Line.She was large, fast and technically advanced. She ran aground off Lambay Island and sank, on her maiden voyage, in 1854.