When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The Novice (poem) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Novice_(poem)

    The Jvary monastery, the poem's alleged locale.. The Novice ("Mtsyri", Мцыри in Russian) is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written in 1839 and first published in 1840, hailed as "one of the last examples of the classic Russian romantic poetry," according to the Lermontov Encyclopedia.

  3. Tanka - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanka

    Masaoka Shiki's (1867–1902) poems and writing (as well as the work of his friends and disciples) have had a more lasting influence. The magazine Hototogisu , which he founded, still publishes. In the Meiji period (1868–1912), Shiki claimed the situation with waka should be rectified, and waka should be modernized in the same way as other ...

  4. Priapeia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapeia

    The last ten poems consist of a coda of 4 poems in elegiac couplets, 3 in hendecasyllables, 2 in scazons, and 1 poem in elegiac couplets. [14] Kloss argues that if the poems were a miscellaneous anthology, they would presumably have contained poems in other metres too, such as the iambic (84 and 87), aeolic (85, 89) or hexameter (95) metres ...

  5. Lays of Ancient Rome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lays_of_Ancient_Rome

    Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these recount heroic episodes from early Roman history with strong dramatic and tragic themes, giving the collection its name. Macaulay also included two poems inspired by recent history: Ivry (1824) and The Armada (1832).

  6. Waka (poetry) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_(poetry)

    Up to and during the compilation of the Man'yōshū in the eighth century, the word waka was a general term for poetry composed in Japanese, and included several genres such as tanka (短歌, "short poem"), chōka (長歌, "long poem"), bussokusekika (仏足石歌, "Buddha footprint poem") and sedōka (旋頭歌, "repeating-the-first-part poem").

  7. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poems_by_William...

    Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1798 Her eyes are Wild 1798 Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) 1798 Simon Lee 1798

  8. Complete Tang Poems - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Tang_Poems

    Complete Tang Poems (or Quan Tangshi) is the largest collection of Tang poetry, containing some 49,000 lyric poems by more than twenty-two hundred poets. In 1705, it was commissioned at the direction of the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor and published under his name. [ 1 ]

  9. Istanbul 2461 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_2461

    The tablet contains a balbale (a kind of Sumerian poem) which is known by the titles "Bridegroom, Spend the Night in Our House Till Dawn" or "A Love Song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen B)". Composed of 29 lines, [5] this poem is a monologue directed to king Shu-Sin (ruled 1972–1964 BC, short chronology, or 2037–2029 BC, long chronology [4]).