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Prologue: The poem begins in the Malvern Hills between Worcestershire and Herefordshire.A man named Will (which can be understood either simply as a personal name or as an allegory for a person's will, in the sense of 'desire, intention') falls asleep and has a vision of a tower set upon a hill and a fortress in a deep valley; between these symbols of heaven and hell is a 'fair field full of ...
Poems of the Imagination: 1807 To Lady Beaumont 1807 "Lady! the songs of Spring were in the grove" Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807 Though narrow be that old Man's cares 1807 "Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near," Poems belonging to the Period of Old Age (1815); Miscellaneous Sonnets (1820) 1807 Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle 1807
She is best known for her 5,000 page book The Poem of the Man-God, first published in 1956 and later titled The Gospel as Revealed to Me. The book is based on 10,000 of the 15,000 pages in her handwritten notebooks. The 10,000 pages were mostly written from 1944-1947 and detail the life of Jesus as an extended narrative of the gospels.
[a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman. Fragment 31 has been the subject of numerous translations and adaptations from ancient times to the present day.
Lazarus Long paraphrases the song in Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children after meeting a representative of the aliens known as The Little People. Fallout 76's Smiling Man, added in the "Mutation Invasion" update, recites the final stanza of the poem as one of his lines of idle dialogue. The poem is paraphrased in serial 4 of Sapphire & Steel
The first extant written mention of the hag is in the 12th century "Vision of Mac Conglinne", in which she is named as the "White Nun of Beare".[5]The long Irish language medieval poem, "The Lament of the Hag of Beara", which she narrates, has been described by folklorist Eleanor Hull as "a beautiful example of the wide-spread idea that human life is ruled by the flow and ebb of the sea-tide ...
Moral Essays (also known as Epistles to Several Persons) is a series of four poems on ethical subjects by Alexander Pope, published between 1731 and 1735. The Individual Poems [ edit ]
The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche, [1] is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC", and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Based on the themes and title of the poem, most sources put the date of composition after 12 September 1368 (when Blanche of Lancaster ...