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The song is sung in Clemens Klopfenstein's film Macao (1988). The song was also used in the Japanese TV show titled Otomen. The line "fall in love maidens" (Koi seyo otome) is used as the subtitle of the video game Sakura Wars 4. From the song, the phrase "Life is short, fall in love, maidens..." (Inochi mijikashi, koi seyo otome...
Armand Silvestre's original 1878 poem, set by Fauré "Madrigal", Op. 35 is a four-part song by Gabriel Fauré to words by Armand Silvestre, composed in 1883. It is written to be sung by vocal quartet or choir, with piano or – a later addition – an orchestral accompaniment. The song was reused in 1919 in the composer's Masques et bergamasques.
Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong.Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength.
Tanka consist of five units (often treated as separate lines when romanized or translated) usually with the following pattern of on (often treated as, roughly, the number of syllables per unit or line): 5-7-5-7-7. [6] The 5-7-5 is called the kami-no-ku (上の句, "upper phrase"), and the 7-7 is called the shimo-no-ku (下の句, "lower phrase").
Rumi's ghazal 163, which begins Beravīd, ey harīfān "Go, my friends", is a Persian ghazal (love poem) of seven verses by the 13th-century poet Jalal-ed-Din Rumi (usually known in Iran as Mowlavi or Mowlana). The poem is said to have been written by Rumi about the year 1247 to persuade his friend Shams-e Tabriz to come back to Konya from ...
A haiku in English is an English-language poem written in a form or style inspired by Japanese haiku.Like their Japanese counterpart, haiku in English are typically short poems and often reference the seasons, but the degree to which haiku in English implement specific elements of Japanese haiku, such as the arranging of 17 phonetic units (either syllables or the Japanese on) in a 5–7–5 ...
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Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the Minister of the U. S. A. to England "Child of my muse! in Barbour's gentle hand" 1829, August 1829, December 19 Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady's Beauty "'Tis not the lily-brow I prize," 1830 1830 Love and Friendship Opposite