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Crossing the Bar" is an 1889 elegiac poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the " sandbar " between the river of life, with its outgoing "flood", and the ocean that lies beyond death , the "boundless deep", to which we return.
Art songs "All's Right" (Robert Browning) "The Child Musician" (Austin Dobson) "Clear and Cool" (Charles Kingsley) "Crossing the Bar" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) "Stay, Stay at Home" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) "The Rainy Day" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) "The Song of the Shirt" (Thomas Hood) "A Widow Bird" (in Through the Year.
Charles Villiers Stanford set "Crossing the Bar" for high voice and piano in April 1880, a year after the poem has been first published. [69] Maude Valérie White (four songs, 1885) and Liza Lehmann (10 songs, 1899) both composed song cycles selecting passages from In Memoriam . [ 70 ]
With nearly 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and a quintuple-platinum certification in the U.S. alone, Shaboozey’s genre-blurring “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the biggest hit of 2024.
It's now one of just six songs to have led the charts for at least 16 weeks in the Hot 100’s 66-year history. The single is also tied for the second-longest-running song this decade with Harry ...
Nothing seems able to tip “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” from the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Shaboozey’s smash is now enjoying its 17th week at No. 1, and broke a couple of records by hitting that ...
In the mid-19th-century, the phrase "the harbor bar be moaning" in the poem and lyric "Three Fishers" connected working-class suffering to the noises. Later in that century, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar", coupling "May there be no moaning of the bar" with images of life's end, and then designated it as essentially his own ...
Shaboozey also said that "you never know" and "you can't know" if songs become successful like "A Bar Song" did. Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty. Shaboozey performs at the CMA Awards in November ...