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Cover of the first edition, 1915. Lilit Phra Lo (Thai: ลิลิตพระลอ) is a narrative poem of around 3,870 lines in Thai. Lilit is a poetic form; Phra is a prefix used for royalty and monks; Lo is the personal name of the hero, sometimes transcribed as Lor or Law.
To establish the authenticity of the poems, scholars have looked at various factors such as the mention of Meera in other manuscripts, as well as the style, language, and form of the poems. [ 9 ] [ 27 ] John Stratton Hawley cautions, "When one speaks of the poetry of Mirabai, then, there is always an element of enigma.
“The world is very quiet without you around.” — Lemony Snicket “We only part to meet again.” — John Gay “Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes in 1876. It is a poetic fiction about a young American man named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Holy Land with a cluster of companions who question each other as they pass through Biblical sites.
My seven blessings on you. 22. May you live long, Die happy, And rate a mansion in heaven. 23. There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish, ... (Or, your father and your mother ...
"The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" is a poem written by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1843. It details the religious persecution of Cassandra Southwick's youngest daughter Provided Southwick, a Quaker woman who lived in Salem, Massachusetts and is the only white female known to be put up at auction as a slave in the United States.
Luck. Fate. Blessing. A glitch in the matrix. Or, if you’re more skeptical, just a coincidence.. It’s a phenomenon that, from a statistical perspective, is random and meaningless.
The poem was first published on June 24, 1865, in the New York Freeman, a pro-Confederate, Roman Catholic newspaper.Ryan published it under the pen-name "Moina". [1] [3] It made Father Ryan famous [4] and this became one of the best-known poems of the post-war South, memorized and recited by generations of Southern schoolchildren.