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He said that he returned from vacation in Ireland in 1988 with souvenirs including a postcard with the Irish travel blessing "May the road rise to meet you", and a booklet of other Irish toasts. He tried to set the translated travel blessing to music, but realised that the text was too long for a round , and too short for a song.
"Rise" is a song by the English post-punk band Public Image Ltd, released as a single on 20 January 1986 by Virgin Records. [1] It was the first single from Album , their fifth studio album. The song was written by John Lydon and Bill Laswell about apartheid in South Africa, specifically about Nelson Mandela as Lydon stated in a 2013 ...
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. And rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
Amanda Gorman presented a new poem at Variety’s Power of Women event presented by Lifetime, in which the 23-year-old encouraged women to rise up and speak their truth and strength into power.
Illustration of the road by Kay Nielsen for the 1914 fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, whose title Tolkien uses in one of his walking songs for Aman, the desired other world. [1] "The Road Goes Ever On" is a title that encompasses several walking songs that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote for his Middle-earth legendarium.
The original, English-language piece that the central lines of Rutter's piece are directly excerpted from is a poem in the book The Dominion of Dreams: Under the Dark Star, [3] by Celtic Revival writer William Sharp / Fiona Macleod; while not containing the words "Jesus," or "Amen," [4] the poem does mention both "the Son of Peace" and "the ...
One Morning in May" (Roud 140, Laws P14) is an English folk song which has been collected from traditional singers in England and the USA and has also been recorded by revival singers. Through the use of double-entendre , at least in the English versions, it tells of an encounter between a grenadier (or soldier) and a lady.
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, by John William Waterhouse "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" is a 1648 poem by the English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick. The poem is in the genre of carpe diem, Latin for "seize the day".