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The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...
The intention of the poem is to indicate the passage of time and yet the timelessness of nature. A human lifetime passes, yet the underlying natural life - symbolised by the unchanging backdrop of the magpies' call - remains unchanging. The phrase imitating the call of the Australian magpie is one of the most well-known lines in New Zealand ...
"The Magpie's Advice" or "The Magpie's Counsel" (Welsh: Cyngor y Biogen or Cyngor y Bioden) is a poem in the form of a cywydd by the pre-eminent Welsh-language poet, [1] Dafydd ap Gwilym. The poet portrays himself as an overage lover who bemoans his romantic woes as he wanders through the woods, and is rebuked by a magpie who bids him concern ...
Thieving Magpie , 1848 novel by Alexander Herzen about a production of the French play in a Russian serf theatre Thieving Magpie (film) , 1958 Soviet drama film, based on Herzens's novel The Thieving Magpie (album) , 1988 double live album by Marillion named after the overture to Rossini's opera
Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (April 25, 1888 - March 23, 1918), was an English poet and novelist of the First World War, best known for his poem Magpies in Picardy, [1] published posthumously in 1919 by The Poetry Bookshop. [2] Wilson was born in Paignton, Devon, where his father, Theodore Cameron Wilson, was vicar of Christ Church, Paignton.
The first three—Manzanita, Magpie's Song, and For the Children—include a total of almost 60 poems, while the fourth section, Plain Talk, includes five prose essays. The collection includes many of Snyder's most commonly quoted and anthologized poems. There is also an introduction, in which Snyder explains the significance of the book's ...
poem, song, report, tale, utterance, saying glēawra glēaw adjective wise, discerning, prudent hē hē personal pronoun he moððe moððe feminine weak noun moth ond and conjunction and ne ne negative particle not se se masculine demonstrative pronoun that stælgiest stæl-giest masculine strong noun stealing guest, theft-guest staþol staðol
Douglas Stewart AO OBE (6 May 1913 – 14 February 1985) was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, 5 verse plays, including the well-known Fire on the Snow, many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor.