Death, life, sadness, and hope; poets in the 19th and 20th centuries took these New Year's themes to great extremes as they wrote. Some took an optimistic view while, for others, it seems to have only led to despair. As you explore this theme, be sure to read these classic poems an...
However, we do ourselves a great disservice when we neglect the reading of poetry. John Adams, one of the founding fathers of the United States, commended poetry to his son John Quincy. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt committed their favorite poems to memory. Ancient kings were expe...
For his Requiem, Goodall attempted rather to provide some solace for those still living, stripping back the Latin texts to a few phrases in each movement and laying beside them words from English poems from across the last 500 years. 6. Tolga Kashif: The Queen Symphony Composed in 2002 by ...
Poets have long found inspiration from the seasons. Sometimes their poems are a simple testament to the glory of nature and include beautiful descriptions of what the poet sees, hears, and smells. In other poems, the season is a metaphor for an emotion the poet wants to convey, such as ma...
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1) Here’s the original Chinese for the JTTW chapter four fight, including that for the omitted poems: 這哪吒太子甲冑齊整,跳出營盤,撞至水簾洞外。那悟空正來收兵,見哪吒來的勇猛。好太子: 總角才遮顖,披毛未蓋肩。神奇多敏悟,骨秀更清妍。誠為天上麒麟子,果是煙霞彩鳳仙。龍種自然非俗相,妙齡端不...
When four poems, satirical chant. [interpretation] China Wind, elegance, Ya and song, collectively known as the four poems, it is a kind of rich content and deep feelings of poetry, it is worth reading. 59, the poem has died, spring and autumn annals. Dont put appraise, good and evil...
The triad, being the fundamental principle of the whole Kabalah, or Sacred Tradition of our fathers, was necessarily the fundamental dogma of Christianity, the apparent dualism of which it explains by the intervention of a harmonious and all-powerful unity. Christ did not put His teaching into ...
The form this poem took was an attack upon the poems of Torna Eigeas, a poet who flourished soon after the year 400, and who was tutor to Niall of the Nine Hostages, but whose alleged24 poems I have not noticed, not believing those attributed to him to be genuine, as they contain ...