enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Prothalamion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prothalamion

    Prothalamion is written in the conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a description of the River Thames where Spenser finds two beautiful maidens. The poet proceeds to praise them and wishing them all the blessings for their marriages. The poem begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem:

  3. List of Irish ballads - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_ballads

    "The Holland Handkerchief" – an Irish version of The Suffolk Miracle (Child #272), sung by County Leitrim singer Mary McPartlan, Connie Dover and others [62] [63] "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" – translation of a 17th-century Irish-language poem, "Táim Sínte ar do Thuama", first recorded by Philip King, later by Sinéad O'Connor. [64]

  4. Ag Críost an Síol - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag_Críost_an_Síol

    There are conflicting accounts of the origins of Ag Críost an Síol.. Some sources describe the poem as "traditional" or "an old anonymous prayer". [1] [2]Another source [3] says that it was in fact written in 1916 by Father Michael Sheehan (Micheál Ó Síocháin) of Waterford, a co-founder of Coláiste na Rinne, the Irish College in An Rinn, County Waterford, who later became assistant ...

  5. 50 Irish blessings to warm your heart on St. Patrick's Day - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/30-irish-blessings-warm-heart...

    The Irish are famous for their wit and way with words — just look at the plethora of St. Patrick's Day q uotes, puns, and songs associated with March 17.. Some of the most famous Irish sayings ...

  6. We Have the 140 Best Irish Blessings and Favorite Irish ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/140-best-irish-blessings-favorite...

    140 best Irish blessings for St. Patrick's Day. It's normal to hear various "season's greetings" around the holidays, and different types of "best wishes" and congratulatory statements when ...

  7. Irish poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_poetry

    Seán wrote both in Irish and English, but Irish was his primary language and he wrote poems in it of many kinds – Fenian poems, love poems, drinking songs, satires and religious poems. [ 4 ] In 1728 Tadhg wrote a poem in which there is a description of the members of the Ó Neachtain literary circle: twenty-six people are mentioned, mostly ...

  8. Pomes Penyeach - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomes_Penyeach

    Pomes Penyeach contains a number of Joycean neologisms ("rosefrail", "moongrey" and "sindark", for example) created by melding two words into a new compound. The word "love" appears thirteen times in this collection of thirteen short poems (and the word "heart" appears almost as frequently) in a variety of contexts.

  9. Epithalamium - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithalamium

    At the close of In Memoriam A.H.H., Tennyson has appended a poem, on the nuptials of his sister, which is strictly an epithalamium. E. E. Cummings also returns to the form in his poem Epithalamion, which appears in his 1923 book Tulips and Chimneys. E.E.Cummings' Epithalamion consists of three seven octave parts, and includes numerous ...