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Since both have great riches, killing Sigurd should be a win-win situation. Illustration by Jenny Nyström (1893). Sigurðarkviða hin skamma or the Short Lay of Sigurd is an Old Norse poem belonging to the heroic poetry of the Poetic Edda .
"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long [1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.
The story begins with the wife busy in her cooking of the pudding and house hold chores as well. As the wind picks up, the husband tells her to close and bar the door. They make an agreement that the next person who speaks must bar the door or close the door, but the door remains open.
Her poetry has a simple style and deals with everyday subject matter. Her poem "Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth", was voted into the Top 10 of a BBC poll to find the nation's 100 Favourite Comic Poems. [17] In the UK Arts Council's report on poetry, Ayres was identified as the fifth best-selling poet in Britain in 1998 and 1999. [citation ...
Gatomaquia-> 1634 poem by Lope de Vega written under the pseudonym "Tomé de Burguillos" General William Booth Enters Into Heaven-> Poem by Vachel Lindsay; Luke Havergal-> 1897 poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson; To My Dear and Loving Husband-> poem by Anne Bradstreet; The Black Christ-> 1927 work by Countee Cullen
The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" is a four stanza poem, written in free verse, and loosely translated by Ezra Pound from a poem by Chinese poet Li Bai, called Chánggān Xíng, or Changgan song. It first appeared in Pound's 1915 collection Cathay. It is the most widely anthologized poem of the collection. [1]
"The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic" is a comic that went viral in 2017, by Emma, a French cartoonist and computer science engineer. [1] The comic was first released as “Fallait demander”, or "You should've asked", [2] and was later published in book form by Murdoch Books (ISBN 978-1760633646, 2018) and Seven Stories Press (ISBN 978-1609809188, 2018).
A late Victorian English poem from the 1880s, "Chertsey Curfew" by Boyd Montgomerie Ranking, treats the same events. [8] In 1895, Stanley Hawley wrote music to accompany the poem's recitation (a performance tradition known as melodrama). This was published as sheet music by Robert Cooks and Co. [9] The poem was widely known in the English ...