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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 ...
The poem is foreshadowing the 21st century. [8] Birgit Dankert writes that the poem proves that both Astrid Lindgren's childhood and her melancholy can be seen as the part where her creativity comes from. The poem represents that God's creation developed into the negative or even failed.
Stephen Gwynn, a writer closely associated with Dearmer's family, recorded that Dearmer had disliked school but blossomed at university: . I have seen a boy who was consistently and persistently and indomitably unhappy during all the phases of his school life, turn into a creature radiant, walking on air, swimming in felicity, from the moment that he became an undergraduate.
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
A Feather on the Breath of God was recorded in St. Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, on 14 September 1981, under the direction of the medieval musicologist Christopher Page. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] The album was released in 1982 as a vinyl LP , and released on CD in 1985.
Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. "Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan," 1794 1796 To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem. "Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme" 1794 1796 I. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine "When British Freedom for an happier land" 1794 1794, December 1
The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of the Sinosphere—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of Chinese history, Joseon Korea, and Vietnam. They tend to offer a reflection on death—both in general and concerning the imminent death of the author—that is often coupled with a meaningful ...
This poem is an appeal to Christian charity, a highly respected value in the Middle Ages (as seen in the third and fourth lines of the first stanza: "For, if you take pity on us poor fellows, God will sooner have mercy on you."). Redemption is at the heart of the ballad.