Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Not even the parallelismus membrorum is an absolutely certain indication of ancient Hebrew poetry. This "parallelism" occurs in the portions of the Hebrew Bible that are at the same time marked frequently by the so-called dialectus poetica; it consists in a remarkable correspondence in the ideas expressed in two successive units (hemistiches, verses, strophes, or larger units); for example ...
Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is, among other stylistic features, a complex ...
In English and Scottish literature, the Four Daughters appear quite widely, for example in: [1] [2] Robert Grosseteste's Chasteu d'amour (thirteenth century), translated into Middle English as The King and his Four Daughters. [6] the Cursor Mundi (c. 1300) lines 9517-52; the English Gesta Romanorum (thirteenth- or fourteenth-century), number 55
Matthew Locke's Super flumina Babylonis motet is an extended setting of the first nine verses of the psalm. [41] [42] The psalm's first two verses were used for a musical setting in a round by English composer Philip Hayes. [43] William Billings adapted the text to describe the British occupation of Boston in his anthem "Lamentation over Boston ...
The hymn's lyrics refer to the heavenly host: "Thee we would be always blessing / serve thee with thy hosts above".. At its first appearance, the hymn was in four stanzas of eight lines (8.7.8.7.D), and this four-stanza version remains in common and current use to the present day, being taken up as early as 1760 in Anglican collections such as those by Madan (1760 and 1767), Conyers (1772 ...
If you’re stuck on today’s Wordle answer, we’re here to help—but beware of spoilers for Wordle 1273 ahead. Let's start with a few hints.
First a little girl goes missing, then her doll, in “The Lost Daughter,” a daring psychological drama in which what should have been an idyllic summer vacation on the Greek island of Spetses ...
The poem is appreciated for its evocative images. In the night went men, in studded corslets, their shields glistened in the waning moon. Völundarkviða 6, Thorpe's translation The last verse, wherein Bǫðvildr laments, has been called ‘unsurpassable as a conclusion’ by Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson: It is true, Nithad, as he said ...