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A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret , or mourning . Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing ...
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a ...
A City Lament is a poetic elegy for a lost or fallen city. This literary genre, from around 2000 BCE onwards, was particularly prevalent in the Mesopotamian region of the Ancient Near East . [ 1 ] The Bible's Book of Lamentations concerning Jerusalem around 586 BCE, contains some elements of a city lament.
English translation How sorrowful I am When I rise early in the morning Chorus (after each verse): Ò hì, I would go with you Hì ri bhò hò ru bhì Hì ri bhò hò rinn o ho Brown-haired Alan, ò hì, I would go with you If the sand be your pillow If the seaweed be your bed If the fish are your candles bright If the seals are your watchmen
Kamsuan Samut (Thai: กำสรวลสมุทร, pronounced [kām.sǔan sā.mùt]), translated into English as Ocean Lament, is a poem of around 520 lines in Thai in the khlong si meter. It concerns a man who leaves the old Siamese capital of Ayutthaya and travels in a small boat down the Chao Phraya River and out into the Gulf of Thailand .
Hector the Hero" is a classic lament penned by Scottish composer and fiddler James Scott Skinner in 1903. [1] It was written as a tribute to Major-General Hector MacDonald, a distinguished Scottish general around the turn of the century. MacDonald, a friend of Skinner's, had not long before committed suicide after false accusations and charges ...
With the Second Elizabethan age at an end, it was a moment which will be forever etched in history. Millions watched around the globe as a nation in mourning staged a final goodbye to its ...
Similar words can be found in Sanskrit (कलम kalama, meaning "reed" and "pen" as well as a type of rice), Hebrew (kulmus, meaning quill) and Latin (calamus) as well as the ancient Greek Κάλαμος (Kalamos). The Arabic word قلم qalam (meaning "pen" or "reed pen") is likely to have been borrowed from one of these languages in antiquity.