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8. " Music, When Soft Voices Die " is a major poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1824 in London by John and Henry L. Hunt with a preface by Mary Shelley. [1] The poem is one of the most anthologised, influential, and well-known of Shelley's works. [2][3]
The Song of Eärendil is the longest poem in The Lord of the Rings. In the fiction, it is sung and composed by the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the Elvish sanctuary of Rivendell. It tells how the mariner Eärendil tries to sail to a place of paradise, and acquires a Silmaril, a prized sun-jewel. Eventually he and his ship are set in the heavens to ...
Shifting Whispering Sands" is a Western song and poem written by Vivian Clark Gilbert and his wife Mary Margaret Hadler. It has been widely recorded, and was one of the top songs in the U.S. in 1955 and again in 1962. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [1]
1910 (114 years ago) (1910) " If— " is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal ...
Johnny Cash 's " Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes," from Ben Jonson 's poem "Song: To Celia." Anna Dennis and Voice of Music 's "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May," from Robert Herrick 's poem " To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Rudyard Kipling's poem, " If," is adapted by Joni Mitchell on her album, Shine.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock at Wikisource. " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness. Eliot began writing the poem in February 1910, and it was first ...
On the Pulse of Morning. " On the Pulse of Morning " is a poem by writer and poet Maya Angelou that she read at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton on January 20, 1993. With her public recitation, Angelou became the second poet in history to read a poem at a presidential inauguration, and the first African American and woman.
Celebration of a maiden's choral. Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings. Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scrapings. Now, in its immortality, it plays. On the clear viol of her memory, And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Peter Quince at the Clavier. A poem from the Harmonium collection.