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"O that I had ne'er been Married" is a Scots-language poem and song by Robert Burns.It dates from 1795. It was included in the Scots Musical Museum collection. [1] [2]Burns may have written it himself as there is no record of the song prior to the Scots Musical Museum, and it was claimed by William Stenhouse, the editor, that Burns related the melody of the song to the Museums publisher James ...
Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano (German: Zwei Gesänge für eine Altstimme mit Bratsche und Klavier), Op. 91, were composed by Johannes Brahms for his friends Joseph Joachim and his wife Amalie. The text of the first song, "Gestillte Sehnsucht" (Longing at rest), is a poem by Friedrich Rückert , composed in 1884.
Perhaps no poem of this class has been more universally admired than the pastoral Epithalamion of Edmund Spenser (1595), though he also has important rivals—Ben Jonson, Donne and Francis Quarles. [2] Ben Jonson's friend, Sir John Suckling, is known for his epithalamium "A Ballad Upon a Wedding." In his ballad, Suckling playfully demystifies ...
The poem follows the poet's struggle to argue convincingly against the voice that suggests suicide, which twice in the poem declares that "there is one remedy for all": Then comes the check, the change, the fall, Pain rises up, old pleasures pall, There is one remedy for all. (ll. 163-165) "Cease to wail and brawl! Why inch by inch to darkness ...
Prothalamion is written in the conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a description of the River Thames where Spenser finds two beautiful maidens. The poet proceeds to praise them and wishing them all the blessings for their marriages. The poem begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem:
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma, in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
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"Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1807 To a Skylark 1805 "Up with me! up with me into the clouds!" Poems, composed during a Tour, chiefly on foot. No. 2 (1807); Poems of the Fancy (1815–) 1807 Fidelity 1805 "A Barking sound the Shepherd hears," Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. 1807