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My daughters shall wait on you finely; My daughters lead the nightly dance, And rock and dance and sing you to sleep." My father, my father, and don't you see there The Erl-King's daughters in the gloomy place? My son, my son, I see it clearly: There shimmer the old willows so grey. "I love you, your beautiful form excites me; And if you're not ...
The poem makes reference to God as "King of the Seven Heavens" and the "High King of Heaven". [9] This depiction of the Lord God of heaven and earth as a chieftain or High King (Irish: Ard Rí) is a traditional representation in Irish literature; medieval Irish poetry typically used heroic imagery to cast God as a clan protector. [10]
"Erlkönig", Op. 1, D 328, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert in 1815, which sets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem of the same name. [1] The singer takes the role of four characters — the narrator, a father, his small son, and the titular "Erlking", a supernatural creature who pursues the boy — each of whom exhibit different tessitura, harmonic and rhythmic characteristics.
Andayar’s poems reflect the happy and joyful nature of the poet. Asked once why though old, his hair had not turned gray, he gave this answer: My years are many, yet my locks not grey: You ask the reason why, 'tis simply this I have a worthy wife, and children too; My servants move obedient to my will; My king does me no evil, aye protects;
Hunkar is an epic poem by Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'. In this work, Dinkar referred to himself for the first time as the Yuga-Chāraṇa or 'Charan of the Era'. [ 1 ] Himalaya is from the collection Hunkar (A Roar) which has been described by a critic as burning coals in the shade of playful rainbow . [ 2 ]
The poem was published as part of a set of martial poems called the Barrack-Room Ballads. In contrast to Kipling's later poem "The White Man's Burden", "Gunga Din" is named after the Indian and portrays him as a heroic character who is not afraid to face danger on the battlefield as he tends to wounded men. The white soldiers who order Din ...
King Charles faced shouts of “You are not my King, this is not your land" from a lawmaker in Australia during his official visit. Charles, 75, had just sat down after making his speech to the ...
The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is varyingly attributed to the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten or his courtiers, depending on the version, who radically changed traditional forms of Egyptian religion by replacing them with ...