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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.
heaven-candle heofon-candel: OE: Exodus 115 b the sun heaven's jewel heofones ġim: OE: The Phoenix 183 the sun glory of elves álf röðull: álf röðull , meaning "glory-of-elves" refers both to the chariot of the sun goddess Sól and to the rider (the sun herself). N: Skírnismál, Vafþrúðnismál: sword blood-worm N: sword icicle of ...
The poem is chiefly remembered today – especially among cat lovers – for the 74-line section wherein Smart extols the many virtues and habits of his cat, Jeoffry. [31] To this Neil Curry remarks, "They are lines that most people first meet outside the context of the poem as a whole, as they are probably the most anthologized 'extract' in ...
The speaker of the poem describes the gruesome effects of the gas on the man, and concludes that anyone who sees the reality of war at first hand would not repeat mendacious platitudes such as dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: "How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country". Owen himself was a soldier who served on the front line ...
When he makes to sacrifice his son, an angel calls from heaven, and tells Abram not to harm Isaac. Instead, he must offer the "Ram of Pride". Then the last two lines of the poem diverge from the Biblical account, set apart for greater effect: "But the old man would not so, but slew his son, / and half the seed of Europe, one by one." [2]
Night is a poem that describes two contrasting places: Earth, where nature runs wild, and Heaven, where predation and violence are nonexistent. It is influenced by a passage from the Old Testament: Isaiah 11:6-8 "The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a ...
The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. "The Lamb" is the counterpart poem to Blake's poem: "The Tyger" in Songs of Experience. Blake wrote Songs of Innocence as a contrary to the Songs of Experience – a central tenet in his philosophy and a central theme in his work. [1]
The Lamb Choral music by John Tavener "The Lamb" in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794), illustrated by Blake Genre Choral anthem Occasion Third birthday of Tavener's nephew Text "The Lamb" by William Blake Composed 1982 Publisher Chester Music Scoring SATB choir Premiere Date 22 December 1982 Location Winchester Cathedral The Lamb is a choral work written in 1982 by ...