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Scott O'Grady's book Return With Honor, which has a full transcript of the poem. One Small Step, a children's novel by Philip Kerr, reprints the poem in full before the Author's Note. A reporter in the film First Man is heard quoting the poem ('slipped the surly bonds of Earth') while describing the Gemini 8 mission that Neil Armstrong took ...
‘He took her face in his hands. ‘“One for sorrow, two for joy”’ he said. “I’ll give you the rest when you’re in a more yielding frame of mind. It wouldn’t do to finish the rhyme tonight.”’
The terms future, promise, delay, and deferred are often used interchangeably, although some differences in usage between future and promise are treated below. Specifically, when usage is distinguished, a future is a read-only placeholder view of a variable, while a promise is a writable, single assignment container which sets the value of the ...
With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew, Thinking only of her brilliant eyes, and green and purple hue;– Thinking only of her crested head – poor foolish thing! – At last Up jumped the cunning spider, and fiercely held her fast. VII. He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den,
The poem's two-stanzas were originally formatted sideways across opposite pages on its first publication, making the likeness to two sets of wings more obvious. [5] Another pattern poem appearing near the start of his collection, The Temple, was "The Altar". There were three other poems in the shape of wings published later than Herbert's.
Examples include poems by Simmias of Rhodes in the shape of an egg, [2] wings [3] and a hatchet, [4] as well as Theocritus' pan-pipes. [5] The post-Classical revival of shaped poetry seems to begin with the Gerechtigkeitsspirale (spiral of justice), a relief carving of a poem at the pilgrimage church of St. Valentin, Kiedrich.
"Auf Flügeln des Gesanges", On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn), 1834 song Arrangement by Franz Liszt for solo piano (S. 547) "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges", setting of the poem by Franz Lachner. On Wings of Song, 1979 science fiction novel by Thomas Disch; Love Me Forever, also released as On Wings of Song, 1935 American drama film
On Wings of Song" (German: "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges") is a poem by the German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine. It was published in Buch der Lieder in 1827. Musical settings