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Kamsuan Samut (Thai: กำสรวลสมุทร, pronounced [kām.sǔan sā.mùt]), translated into English as Ocean Lament, is a poem of around 520 lines in Thai in the khlong si meter. It concerns a man who leaves the old Siamese capital of Ayutthaya and travels in a small boat down the Chao Phraya River and out into the Gulf of Thailand .
A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret , or mourning . Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing ...
Lamentations combines elements of the kinah, a funeral dirge for the loss of the city, and the "communal lament" pleading for the restoration of its people. [6] It reflects the view, traceable to Sumerian literature of a thousand years earlier, that the destruction of the holy city was a punishment by God for the communal sin of its people. [ 7 ]
Augustine: By the words, one iota or one point shall not pass from the Law, we must understand only a strong metaphor of completeness, drawn from the letters of writing, iota being the least of the letters, made with one stroke of the pen, and a point being a slight dot at the end of the same letter. The words there show that the Law shall be ...
Bocet is a lament in free rhythm. The bocet is sung by one or more people with their eyes in tears or just expressing a deep grief. Encountered throughout Romania, bocet is a part of the traditional mourning observances.
Certain word reached me, I can feel this dagger of pain, What long ago he foretold. Tuled ualmun de num ualallal / hul yg kynʒaſſal / fyom halallal. Tüüled válnum; de nüm valállal, hul igy kinzassál, fiom, halállal! Ne váljak el tőled, Életben maradva, Mikor így kínoznak Fiam, halálra! May I not be separated from you, Staying alive,
Hector the Hero" is a classic lament penned by Scottish composer and fiddler James Scott Skinner in 1903. [1] It was written as a tribute to Major-General Hector MacDonald, a distinguished Scottish general around the turn of the century. MacDonald, a friend of Skinner's, had not long before committed suicide after false accusations and charges ...
Its general meaning is a dirge or lament, especially as sung by Jewish professional mourning women. Specifically, it can refer to one of the many Hebrew elegies chanted traditionally on Tisha B'Av. The Jerusalem Bible refers to Isaiah 47 as a qinah or "lament for Babylon", [2] and to Ezekiel 19 as a qinah or lamentation over the rulers of ...