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To Sleep" is a poem by William Wordsworth. Here, the speaker is someone who suffers from insomnia. He lies sleepless all night, wanting to be able to sleep, but he cannot. He imagines a flock of sheep leisurely passing by, one after one.
"Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed" Poems of the Fancy: 1807 Yew-trees 1803 "There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale," Poems of the Imagination: 1815 Who fancied what a pretty sight 1803 Manuscript title: "Coronet of Snowdrops" "Who fancied what a pretty sigh" Moods of my own Mind (1807); Poems of the Fancy: 1807
Cad Goddeu (Middle Welsh: Kat Godeu, English: The Battle of the Trees) is a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book of Taliesin. The poem refers to a traditional story in which the legendary enchanter Gwydion animates the trees of the forest to fight as his army.
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Readers from Blake's time would have found it odd that The Shepherd was following his herd. [7] Blake allows the voice of the poem to speak for itself rather than revealing a firm interpretation. [7] The Shepherd's relationship to his flock is further explored in the final lines of the poem. When he is present, the herd remains calm and peaceful.
The song may be an allusion to both the apple tree in Song of Solomon 2:3 which has been interpreted as a metaphor representing Jesus, and to his description of his life as a tree of life in Luke 13:18–19 and elsewhere in the New Testament including Revelation 22:1–2 and within the Old Testament in Genesis.
The yew at Strata Florida Abbey now said to mark Dafydd ap Gwilym's grave "To the Yew Tree Above Dafydd ap Gwilym's Grave" (Welsh: Yr Ywen uwchben Bedd Dafydd ap Gwilym) is a 14th-century Welsh-language poem in the form of a cywydd, [1] and is usually seen as either an elegy written after the death of Dafydd ap Gwilym or a mock-elegy addressed to him during his lifetime.