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A banshee (/ ˈ b æ n ʃ iː / BAN-shee; Modern Irish bean sí, from Old Irish: ben síde [bʲen ˈʃiːðʲe], "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, [1] usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening.
Hamish Henderson's bust in South Gyle (James) Hamish Scott Henderson (11 November 1919 – 9 March 2002) was a Scottish poet, songwriter, communist, intellectual and soldier.
Emerson's "Concord Hymn" was written for the dedication of the memorial of the Battle of Concord. "Concord Hymn" (original title "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836") [1] [2] is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of an obelisk monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord, a series of battles ...
The Banshee (1925) is a piano composition by American composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965). It was the first piano piece ever written to be performed entirely free of the keyboard, using only manual manipulation of the strings within the instrument to produce sound via the flesh and nails of the finger .
Porcelain image of John Barleycorn, c .1761. The first song to personify Barley was called Allan-a-Maut ('Alan of the malt'), a Scottish song written prior to 1568; [3]. Allan is also the subject of "Quhy Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be", a fifteenth or sixteenth century Scots poem included in the Bannatyne Manuscript of 1568 and 17th century English broadsides.
1832 first edition, printed by Bradbury and Evans, Edward Moxon, London. 1842 title page, with added poems "Queen Liberty" and "Song-To the Men of England", J. Watson, London. The Masque of Anarchy (or The Mask of Anarchy ) is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry ) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre ...
First published in 1791, at 228 (or 224) lines it is one of Burns' longer poems, and employs a mixture of Scots and English. The poem describes the habits of Tam (a Scots nickname for Thomas ), a farmer who often gets drunk with his friends in a public house in the Scottish town of Ayr , and his thoughtless ways, specifically towards his wife ...
"Widsith" (Old English: Wīdsīþ, "far-traveller", lit. "wide-journey"), also known as "The Traveller's Song", [1] is an Old English poem of 143 lines. It survives only in the Exeter Book ( pages 84v–87r ), a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late-10th century, which contains approximately one-sixth of all surviving Old ...