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  2. Anglo-Saxon riddles - Wikipedia

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    The Exeter Book riddles can be situated within a wider tradition of 'speaking objects' in Anglo-Saxon culture and have much in common with poems such as The Dream of the Rood and The Husband's Message and with artefacts such as the Alfred Jewel or the Brussels Cross, which endow inanimate things with first-person voices. [28]

  3. Red River (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Red River or Red Water (Chinese: 赤水; pinyin: Chishui; lit. 'red water') is an important feature in the mythological geography of Chinese literature, including novels and poetry over a course of over two millennia from the Warring States to early Han dynasty era poetry of the Chuci onward.

  4. The Dream (Dafydd ap Gwilym poem) - Wikipedia

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    The dream of the beloved was a motif used in another of Dafydd's poems, "The Clock". [9] It was famously the basis of Le Roman de la Rose , but is older than that. Such a dream, together with an interpretation by an old crone, appears in Walther von der Vogelweide 's Dô der sumer komen was , and as far back as Ovid 's Amores . [ 10 ]

  5. Osman's Dream - Wikipedia

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    Osman's Dream is a mythological story about the life of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire. The story describes a dream experienced by Osman while staying in the home of a religious figure, Sheikh Edebali , in which he sees a metaphorical vision predicting the growth and prosperity of an empire to be ruled by him and his descendants.

  6. Poetry from Daily Life: A poem influenced MLK's 'Dream ... - AOL

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    of the poetry.” With a smile a mile wide. and teeth gleaming. Moses recites from “Dreams” by Langston Hughes. Hold fast to dreams. For when dreams die. Life is a broken-winged bird. That ...

  7. Christian poetry - Wikipedia

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    The medieval manuscript of The Dream of the Rood from the Vercelli book. In Old English poetry, the Dream of the Rood, an iconic work of dream vision poetry on Christ's crucifixion which adapts the conventions of Pagan Germanic epic poetry and applies them to Jesus, is one of the earliest extant monuments of Anglo-Saxon literature.

  8. God Makes the Rivers to Flow - Wikipedia

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    God Makes the Rivers to Flow is an anthology of spiritual texts for use in meditation, assembled by Eknath Easwaran. Condensed versions have been published under the titles Timeless Wisdom (book) and Sacred Literature of the World (audio recording).

  9. W. H. R. Rivers - Wikipedia

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    As such, by the time Rivers was assigned to Maghull War Hospital, it was known as the "centre for abnormal psychology", and many of its physicians were employing techniques such as dream interpretation, psychoanalysis and hypnosis to treat shell shock, also known as the war neuroses. [1]