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- "The Birth of Kumāra") is an epic poem by Kālidāsa. It is widely regarded as the finest work of Kalidasa as well as the greatest kāvya poem in Classical Sanskrit . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The style of description of spring set the standard for nature metaphors pervading many centuries of Indian literary tradition. [ 3 ]
The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up.
The poem closes with the approach of a birch canoe to Hiawatha's village, containing "the Priest of Prayer, the Pale-face." Hiawatha welcomes him joyously; and the "Black-Robe chief" brings word of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin. Hiawatha and the chiefs accept the Christian message.
The title page of Poems in Two Volumes. Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of ...
"Our Hitch in Hell" is a ballad by American poet Frank Bernard Camp, originally published as one of 49 [1] ballads in a 1917 collection entitled American Soldier Ballads, that went on to inspire multiple variants among American law enforcement and military, either as The Final Inspection, the Soldier's Prayer (or Poem), the Policeman's Prayer ...
Character of the Happy Warrior 1806 "Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1807 The Horn of Egremont Castle 1806 "Ere the Brothers through the gateway" Poems of the Imagination (1815–45); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1807 A Complaint 1806 "There is a change--and I am poor;" Poems founded on the Affection 1807
Many of the poems are eulogies to monks, to warriors, and to family members — in one case, a sister. The Silla period, especially before unification in 668, was a time of warfare; the hyangga capture the sorrow of mourning for the dead while Buddhism provided answers about where the dead go and the afterlife.
His poems, criticism, and personal essays appear widely in such magazines as The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker and The Sewanee Review. [9] Clive James describes Wiman's poems as being “insistent on being read aloud, in a way that so much from America is determined not to be.