Questions about Swahili navigational poetry (poem-maps) motivate this reflection. Can similar repositories of sea experiences be read for biographical threads of the water body to which they refer? This essay explores these questions by focusing on narratives in and of the interstices, the small ...
Of travellers in some shady haunt, 在沙漠中的绿荫间 Among Arabian sands: 抚慰过疲惫的旅客; A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard 还从未有过杜鹃迎春, In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, 声声啼得如此震动灵魂, Breaking the silence of the seas 在遥远的赫布利底群岛 Among the farthest...
The Aeneid 埃涅伊德 古罗马神话传说 黑经典 英文版 进口英语原版书籍 英文原版 作者:Virgil出版社:Penguin出版时间:2010年12月 手机专享价 ¥ 当当价 降价通知 ¥99.00 配送至 广东广州市 至 北京市东城区 服务 由“瑞雅图书专营店”发货,并提供售后服务。
Seamus Heaney even wrote a poem about it. ‘The mountains, lakes, rivers and bogs together with the beaches and the wild mountain ponies create the landscape of poets and painters,’ says Patrick O’Flaherty, a Connemara local who now manages the hotel. ‘The rhythm of the river flowing ...
Let us discard any crude notions of the cross as a transaction, as if somebody had to pay for all the damage wrought by human sin, so Jesus stepped up like a big spender to declare, “This one’s on me.” Such “substitution” theology either trivializes the cost of sin (can Auschwi...
The Lady Prayeth the Return of Her Lover Abiding on the Seas by Anonymous Shall I thus ever long, and be no whit the near,And shall I still complain to thee, the which me will not hear?Alas say nay, say nay, and be no more so dumb,But open thou thy manly mouth, and say ...
Not all bodies of water are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Western civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atl...
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabet...
Astrothesia(as-tro-the’-si-a): A vivid description of stars. One type ofenargia. I first learned the word “twinkle” when I learned the little poem “Twinkle, twinkle, little star.” Often, when I look at the sky at night, the childhood poem presents itself in my head. I’m in...
It was inspired by a Chinese poem describing "large and small pearls dropping on a plate of jade." Located in Pudong, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower's top sphere holds the tallest observation deck with a glass overlook; other spheres have views over the Huangpu River toward the classic Bund ...