Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Miorița ballad is summarized and discussed by Mircea Eliade in Zalmoxis, The Vanishing God (1972), [21] and plays a fundamental role in his novel The Forbidden Forest. The poem was quoted extensively by Patrick Leigh Fermor in his account [52] of the second part of a journey on foot from Holland to Constantinople in 1933–34. He includes ...
Mother Machree" is a 1910 American-Irish song with lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and singer Chauncey Olcott, and music by Ernest Ball. It was originally written for the show Barry of Ballymoore. [1] It was first released by Chauncey Olcott, then by Will Oakland in 1910. The song was later kept popular by John McCormack and others.
"Lord Randall", or "Lord Randal", (Roud 10, Child 12) is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad [1] consisting of dialogue between a young Lord and his mother. [2] Similar ballads can be found across Europe in many languages, including Danish, German, Magyar, Irish, Swedish, and Wendish.
In them, the hero is a man who has newly become king, after the death of his father; his long-term mistress, Anna or Anneck, tries to get him to make her his wife, and the queen mother supports her. When the son refuses and chooses a bride, Anneck wishes to speak with her; the queen mother brings her to the other woman, and her account makes ...
"The Cruel Mother" (a.k.a. "The Greenwood Side" or "Greenwood Sidey" ) ( Roud 9 , Child 20 ) is a murder ballad originating in England that has since become popular throughout the wider English-speaking world.
The 1793 two volume Edinburgh Edition was published, much enlarged and for the first time containing the poem Tam o' Shanter. [11] The poem had already appeared in The Edinburgh Herald, 18 March 1791; the Edinburgh Magazine, March 1791 and in the second volume of Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland of 1791 for which it was originally written. [8]
The Song about the Rushnyk (embroidered towel-cloth) (Ukrainian: Пісня про рушник, romanized: Pisnia pro rushnyk), a song also known as Rushnychok, [1] Ballad to Mother, [1] or "My dear mother" (Ridna maty moya), [2] is a popular Ukrainian song based on a poem by Andriy Malyshko.
Poems and Ballads, First Series is the first collection of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in 1866. The book was instantly popular, and equally controversial. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. The poems have many common elements, such as the Ocean, Time, and Death.