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A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
" Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied" ("Sing a New Song unto the Lord") is a Christian hymn in German. It was written by Georg Alfred Kempf , a Protestant pastor in Alsace , in 1941. With a 1956 melody by Adolf Lohmann , it is part of the common German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob (2013).
Copy of Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, from Nineveh, 7th Century BC. Louvre Museum (deposit from British Museum).. Ludlul bēl nēmeqi ("I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom"), also sometimes known in English as The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, is a Mesopotamian poem (ANET, pp. 434–437) written in Akkadian that concerns itself with the problem of the unjust suffering of an afflicted man, named Šubši ...
Instead, the poem draws on an older story, repeated in Milton's History of Britain, that Joseph of Arimathea, alone, travelled to preach to the ancient Britons after the death of Jesus. [4] The poem's theme is linked to the Book of Revelation (3:12 and 21:2) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a New Jerusalem.
Notes on the Parables of Our Lord (1847). Sacred Latin Poetry (1849). Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord (1850). The Star of the Wise Men (1850). Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount: Second Edition Revised and Improved (1851). Poems from Eastern Sources, Genoveva, and other Poems (1851). On the Lessons in Proverbs: Five Lectures (1853).
Führer (umlaut is usually dropped in English) – always used in English to denote Hitler or to connote a fascistic leader – never used, as is possible in German, simply and unironically to denote a (non-fascist) leader or guide (e.g. Bergführer: mountain guide, Stadtführer: city guide [book], Führerschein: driving licence ...
On 30 June 1882, the day of the execution of Guiteau for the assassination of President James Garfield, Guiteau announced, after famously dancing his way to the gallows, that he would read a poem that he had written. Guiteau said that he had written the poem, entitled "I Am Going to the Lordy", at about 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time that day ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Poems, Chiefly Lyrical is a ... Lord Tennyson, 1809–1892". Poetry Foundation. 19 July 2017. Accessed 9 June 2022.