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"A Pilgrim's Way" is one of the most popular of poems by Rudyard Kipling. It was set to music by Peter Bellamy, [2] and has been recorded by Cockersdale, [3] Finest Kind, [4] John Roberts & Tony Barrand, [5] Damien Barber & Mike Wilson, [6] as well as the band Pilgrims’ Way (comprising Lucy Wright, Tom Kitching and Edwin Beasant).
8 Richard Barnfield "If music and sweet poetry agree" First published in Poems in Diverse Humours (1598). 9 Unknown "Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love" On the theme of Venus and Adonis, as is Shakespeare's narrative poem. 10 Unknown "Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded" In the same six-line stanza format as Venus ...
The Pilgrim's Tale is an English anti-monastic poem. It was probably written c. 1536 –38, since it makes references to events in 1534 and 1536 – e.g. the Lincolnshire Rebellion – and borrows from The Plowman's Tale and the 1532 text by William Thynne of Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose, which is cited by page and line.
It is appropriate that Sonnet 8, a sonnet of musical descant, is placed as the 8th sonnet, since an "eight" is a "true concord." Sonnet 128,like Sonnet 8, suggests the octave of the scale as well as, in the case of 128 the 12 notes on the keyboard inside each octave (an association first recognized and described in detail by Fred Blick, in ...
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes in 1876. It is a poetic fiction about a young American man named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Holy Land with a cluster of companions who question each other as they pass through Biblical sites.
As a judge and Arizona legislator, a cancer survivor and child of the Texas plains, Sandra Day O'Connor was like the pilgrim in the poem she sometimes quoted – forging a new path and building a ...
The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.
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