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by William Wordsworth. A hand-written manuscript of the poem (1804). British Library Add. MS 47864 [ 1 ] I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
The Forest of Anykščiai (Lithuanian: Anykščių šilelis), written by Antanas Baranauskas and published in 1861 by Laurynas Ivinskis, is a landmark poem in the history of the Lithuanian literature. [1][2] The poem expresses the long-standing connection between the Lithuanian people and their forests. [2] It was inspired by poetry of Adam ...
Bagme Bloma. "Bagmē Blōma" (Gothic language: "Flower of the Trees") by J. R. R. Tolkien is a poem in the 1936 Songs for the Philologists, and the only one ever written in the Gothic language. It was to be sung to the tune of "O Lazy Sheep!". Scholars have found the poem beautiful, and have debated its interpretation.
Ono no Komachi (小野 小町, c. 825 – c. 900[citation needed]) was a Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen —the six best waka poets of the early Heian period. She was renowned for her unusual beauty, and Komachi is today a synonym for feminine beauty in Japan. [ 1 ] She also counts among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.
The poem in fact explores, instead of asserting, the pantheistic union of man and nature through a quintessential life-and-death force. For all the poet shares with 'the crooked rose', either as destroyer or victim, he cannot make himself heard ('I am dumb to tell' is repeated five times as a refrain), a failure that unwittingly distinguishes a ...
This short and beautiful poem holds the key for leading a balanced life. It advises us to be humble and gentle yet strong. The song says, be humble like a blade of grass at the foot of the mountain and spread your fragrance like a gentle jasmine flower. The metaphor of gentle blade of grass at the foot of the mountain is very profound.
To the Daisy (third poem) 1802 "Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere," Poems of the Fancy (1815–32); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1837–) 1807 The Green Linnet 1803 "Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed" Poems of the Fancy: 1807 Yew-trees 1803 "There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale," Poems of the Imagination: 1815
Sangam landscape. The Sangam landscape (Tamil: அகத்திணை "inner classification") is the name given to a poetic device that was characteristic of love poetry in classical Tamil Sangam literature. The core of the device was the categorisation of poems into different tiṇai s or modes, depending on the nature, location, mood and ...