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Heaney also reworked The Testament of Cresseid, and had drawn on the Oresteia of Aeschylus for his sequence of poems "Mycenae Lookout". [4] Heaney's version is well known for its lines: History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.
"The Mayan Books" is a poem by Australian poet A. D. Hope. [1] It was first published in the poet's collection Orpheus in 1991, and later in other Australian poetry anthologies. Outline
The original words "Meine Hoffnung stehet feste" were written around 1680 by Joachim Neander.. In 1899 these were freely translated into English by Robert Bridges. [1] He was, at the time, living in the Berkshire village of Yattendon, where he was choir master for the parish church of St Peter and St Paul. [2]
In 1977 a reprint of her 1965 collection of poems appeared as The Eternal Things: The Best of Grace Noll Crowell. Although time has relegated her to the status of a minor poet, she was selected by the America Publishers as one of the ten outstanding American Women of 1938, and in the early 1940s she was called "the most popular writer of verse ...
It is thought that Hoffman was reading about the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible and began to think about how God saved men from their sins by allowing Jesus to die on the cross. The poem Hoffman wrote based on these thoughts was called "Glory to His Name". John Stockton, a musician and member of Hoffman's church, set the poem to music.
The sense of dum spiro spero can be found in the work of Greek poet Theocritus (3rd Century BC), who wrote: "While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none." [2] That sentiment seems to have become common by the time of Roman statesman Cicero (106 – 43 BC), who wrote to Atticus: "As in the case of a sick man one says, 'While there is life there is hope' [dum anima est, spes ...
The Wandering Islands (1955) is the first poetry collection by Australian poet A. D. Hope.It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1955. [1]The collection consists of 39 poems, most are published in this collection for the first time and others are reprinted from various Australian poetry publications.
In 1971, Les Crane used a spoken-word recording of the poem as the lead track of his album Desiderata. [20] His producers had assumed that the poem was too old to be copyrighted, but the publicity surrounding the record led to clarification of Ehrmann's authorship and the eventual payment of royalties.