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"Song for Athene" (also known as "Alleluia. May Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest") is a musical composition by British composer John Tavener with lyrics by Mother Thekla, an Orthodox nun, which is intended to be sung a cappella by a four-part (soprano, alto, tenor and bass) choir.
She was a professional French horn musician from 1941 to 1948 and a book reviewer for the Los Angeles Daily News from 1948 to 1949 and Los Angeles Mirror from 1949 to 1950. . She was personal secretary for singer Dinah Shore and for violinist Jascha Heife
May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once (a) poor (man), may you have eternal rest." The melody of In paradisum In the Masses for the dead, this antiphon is sung in procession on the way from the final blessing of the corpse in church to the graveyard where burial takes place.
Read article “May flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest,” the official Royal Family Twitter captioned a snap of the late monarch walking up a hill in the countryside. “In loving memory of ...
Air and Angels is a novel by English author Susan Hill her first for 16 years. [2] It was first published in 1991 by Sinclair Stevenson and since republished by Vintage Books in 1999 who have also made it available as an ebook. [3] It is said to contain some of her finest writing. [4] The title is taken from a poem by Jon Donne. [5]
Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe, was ne'er beguil'd! And I wept both night and day And he wip'd my tears away And I wept both day and night And hid from him my hearts delight So he took his wings and fled: Then the morn blush'd rosy red: I dried my tears & armed my fears, With ten thousand shields and spears. Soon my Angel came again;
[2] [3] On the gravestone are inscribed the first and last lines from his poem "High Flight". Part of the official letter to his parents read, "Your son's funeral took place at Scopwick Cemetery, near Digby Aerodrome, at 2.30 pm, on Saturday, 13 December 1941, the service being conducted by Flight Lieutenant S. K. Belton, the Canadian padre of ...
The Fall of the Angels is a Miltonesque epic poem by John William Polidori concerned with the creation of the world. It was published anonymously in 1821 only months before Polidori's death. The only known contemporary review of the poem was a negative one, published on 5 May 1821.