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Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs, Op. 47, is a set of five part songs to poems in English by four authors which mention flowers, composed for four voices in 1950 as a gift for the 25th wedding anniversary of Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst.
Myrthen (), Op. 25, is a song cycle composed in the spring of 1840 by Robert Schumann.Its 26 Lieder were written as a wedding gift for his fiancée, Clara Wieck, and presented to her on the eve of their wedding which took place on 12 September that year.
The following is the list of 244 poems attributed to Philip Larkin. Untitled poems are identified by their first lines and marked with an ellipsis.Completion dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format, and are tagged "(best known date)" if the date is not definitive.
The poem begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem: Calm was the day and through the trembling air The sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play. The poet is standing near the Thames River and finds a group of nymphs with baskets collecting flowers for the new brides.
The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, with the first 4,000 copies being sold within two months. A United States edition appeared some seven months later.
At the wedding, Wells danced down the aisle to "Rasputin," spreading 3,000 flower petals via pockets, a hat and tear-away pants A bride and groom had an untraditional wedding processional.
According to Antal, Blake's Flower Plate is composed of three flower poems on the same plate for a reason: to illustrate three types of love; Poetic Love, Earthly Love, and Human Love. In the "threefold vision of love" idea, this poem represents "Human Love". [2]
Poems of the Fancy: 1807 To the same Flower (second poem) [sequel to "To The Daisy"] 1802 "With little here to do or see" Poems of the Fancy: 1807 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