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Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893. The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
Christopher's A Song to David is an attempt to bridge poetry written by humans and divinely inspired Biblical poetry. [6] The Biblical David plays an important role in this poem just like he played an important role in Jubilate Agno [ 7 ] However, David in Jubilate Agno is an image of the creative power of poetry whereas he becomes a fully ...
The song has been recorded but few times. In 1930, English comedian Billy Bennett made a 10" single , Columbia DB 164 , with the words credited to Bert Lee and R. P. Weston and the music to Lee. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 1962, Derek Lamb , best known as a British animation filmmaker and producer, included it on an album itself called She Was Poor but She ...
'Carry', said David, 'my harp to me' I would like, before dying, to give a tune on it (her) Lift my hands to reach the strings God bless you, my widow and children! Last night I heard an angel's voice like this: "David, come home and play through the glen!" Harp of my youth, farewell to your strings! God bless you, my widow and children!
In the early 1980s Harkins sent the piece, with other poems, to various magazines and poetry publishers, without any immediate success. Eventually it was published in a small anthology in 1999. He later said: "I believe a copy of 'Remember Me' was lying around in some publishers/poetry magazine office way back, someone picked it up and after ...
[10] [11] Opera singer, Bryn Terfel recorded a choral version of the song on his album "We'll Keep a Welcome". [12] Cerys Matthews recorded a guitar version for her 2010 album Tir, [13] David Essex released a song, Myfanwy, in 1987, a setting of the poem ‘Myfanwy at Oxford’ by John Betjamin and Jim Parker, with music by Mike Reid. Other ...
Song poems are songs with lyrics by usually non-professional writers that have been set to music by commercial companies for a fee. This practice, which has long been disparaged in the established music industry, was also known as song sharking and was conducted by several businesses throughout the 20th century in North America .
"Run Joey Run" was released in the late summer of 1975, and by October the song had peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It would be Geddes' only Top 10 hit; his only other hit, "The Last Game of the Season (A Blind Man in the Bleachers)" would peak at No. 18 on the Billboard [Hot 100] in December 1975 [4] and No. 23 in Cashbox (December 6, 1975).