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"Lenten ys come with love to toune" is an anonymous poem, thought to have been composed in the late 13th or early 14th century. [6] It has reached us as one of the Harley Lyrics, a collection of Middle English lyric poems preserved, among much other material, in British Library MS Harley 2253, fol. 71 v. In this folio the text is presented in ...
Westron Wynde was put to music by Igor Stravinsky as a movement (Westron Wind) of his Cantata (1952). [citation needed]The American folk group The Limeliters (Louis Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, and Glenn Yarbrough) recorded a version using a variation of the first tune above, with modern English stanzas interpolated.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
And a song stirs in the silence, As the wind in the boughs above, She listens and starts and trembles, 'Tis the first little song of love: Refrain Roses are shining in Picardy, in the hush of the silver dew, Roses are flowering in Picardy, but there's never a rose like you! And the roses will die with the summertime, and our roads may be far apart,
On Wings of Song, Sweetheart, I carry you away, Away to the fields of the Ganges, Where I know the most beautiful place. There is a garden of red flax In the quiet moonlight; The lotus flowers await their charming little sister. The violets giggle and caress, And gaze up at the stars; Secretly the roses tell each other Fragrant fairy-stories.
"Roses Are Red" is a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day , and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [ 2 ]
Consisting of three, six line stanzas of iambic tetrameter with occasional exceptions, "There is a Garden in Her Face" is a lyric poem beginning with an ABABCC rhyme scheme. With notable imagery all throughout the work, Campion's poem begins by providing readers with a template of a woman's face.
An ode (from Ancient Greek: ᾠδή, romanized: ōidḗ) is a type of lyric poetry, with its origins in Ancient Greece.Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.