"face. • Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Gossamer (""Rudolph"") and Mouse • John T. Smith as Scientist (uncredited) Water, Water Every Hare Water, Water Every Hare is a ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon released in 1952 featuring Bugs Bunny and Gossamer, with a similar premise to ""Hair-Raising Hare"". The title is a pun on the line ""Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink"" from the poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"", by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The cartoon is available on Disc 1 of the """". Much like in ""Hair-Raising Hare"", Bugs (after being flooded out of his rabbit hole"
"a poem by Ravidas. The term means the city where there is no suffering or fear, and all are equal. There is a small ""chhatri"" (umbrella) in front of Meera’s temple in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan which bears Ravidas' engraved foot print. Legends link him as the ""guru"" of Meera, another major bhakti movement poet, but there is no historical evidence that they ever met. Ravidas Ravidas was a North Indian mystic poet-sant of the bhakti movement during the 15th to 16th century CE. Venerated as a ""guru"" (teacher) in the region of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya"
"me, guttering, choking, drowning"". </poem> The title of Owen's poem is part of a line from the Roman poet Horace – """" (""It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country""). The phrase was inscribed over the chapel door at Sandhurst, the British military academy, in 1913. The phrase is again referenced when Duffy writes ""Dulce — No — Decorum — No — Pro patria mori."" The writer Will Heaven said that, whilst the poem denies that death in war is ""sweet and proper"" (""dulce et decorum""), it does not deny that the soldiers died for their country (""pro"
"I am the sunlight, I am the rain / Do not stand on my grave and cry / I am not there / I did not die"". Several notable choral compositions, pop songs, and other creative works have been based on ""Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"", adapting lines from Frye's poem as lyrics. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep ""Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"" is a poem written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye. Although the origin of the poem was disputed until later in her life, Mary Frye's authorship was confirmed"
"that faith and hope in something good, which neither violence nor misrepresentation nor prejudice can ever totally extinguish among mankind. The Poem has a dedication ""to Mary ———— ———"" comprising a verse by George Chapman: <poem> There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is: there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law. </poem> In the first canto, the poet climbs a mountain from which he observes an eagle and a snake battle. The eagle prevails. A woman takes the poet and the wounded"
"moon it shall stray/So dawn goes down today/No gold can stay/No gold can stay."" Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) ""Nothing Gold Can Stay"" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in ""The Yale Review"" in October of that year. It was later published in the collection ""New Hampshire"" (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ""New Hampshire"" also included Frost's poems ""Fire and Ice"" and ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, ""Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between"
"Tears, Idle Tears ""Tears, Idle Tears"" is a lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the ""songs"" in his ""The Princess"" (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics. A Tennyson anthology describes the poem as ""one of the most Virgilian of Tennyson's poems and perhaps his most famous lyric"". Readers often overlook the poem's blank verse—the poem does not rhyme. Tennyson was inspired to write ""Tears, Idle Tears"" upon a visit to Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, an abbey that was abandoned in 1536. He said the"
"Sol, vind och vatten Sol, vind och vatten (, ""Sun, wind and water"") is a song written by Swedish lyricist Kenneth Gärdestad and composer Ted Gärdestad. First recorded by Lena Andersson, the song was released as a single in October 1972. Ted Gärdestad recorded the song for his 1973 album ""Ted."" By the second verse, the birth of Jesus is apparent, but in Sweden the song is strongly associated with the summertime and not Christmastime. Many people interpret ""dig"" ""you"" as a human being, and not God or Jesus. Later during the 1970s, 80's and early 90's, the term ""Sol,"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) ""Nothing Gold Can Stay"" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in ""The Yale Review"" in October of that year. It was later published in the collection ""New Hampshire"" (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. ""New Hampshire"" also included Frost's poems ""Fire and Ice"" and ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, ""Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between paradisiac good and the paradoxically more fruitful human good than 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,'"
"beautiful settings in existence of Tennyson's splendid lyric"". Tears, Idle Tears ""Tears, Idle Tears"" is a lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the ""songs"" in his ""The Princess"" (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics. A Tennyson anthology describes the poem as ""one of the most Virgilian of Tennyson's poems and perhaps his most famous lyric"". Readers often overlook the poem's blank verse—the poem does not rhyme. Tennyson was inspired to write ""Tears, Idle Tears"" upon a visit to Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, an abbey"
"Waters of March The Waters of March ( ) is a Brazilian song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994) in 1972. Jobim wrote both the English and Portuguese lyrics. The lyrics, originally written in Portuguese, do not tell a story, but rather present a series of images that form a collage; nearly every line starts with ""É..."" (""[It] is...""). In 2001, ""Águas de Março"" was named as the all-time best Brazilian song in a poll of more than 200 Brazilian journalists, musicians and other artists conducted by Brazil's leading daily newspaper, ""Folha de S.Paulo"". It was also voted by the"
"cantos in which the elements of earth and air feature so strongly, Canto LXXXIII opens with images of water and light, drawn from Pindar, George Gemistos Plethon, John Scotus Eriugena, the mermaid carvings of Pietro Lombardo and Heraclitus' phrase ""panta rei"" (""everything flows""). A passage addressed to a Dryad speaks out against the death sentence and cages for wild animals and is followed by lines on equity in government and natural processes based on the writings of Mencius. The tone of placid acceptance is underscored by three Chinese characters that translate as ""don't help to grow that which will grow"
"Arches, Theatres, &c. of Ancient Rome"". This passage consists of lines 47–70 of the poem. ""To build, to plant, whatever you intend,"" ""To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend,"" ""To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot;"" ""In all, let Nature never be forgot."" ""But treat the Goddess like a modest fair,"" ""Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare;"" ""Let not each beauty ev'ry where be spy'd,"" ""Where half the skill is decently to hide."" ""He gains all points who pleasingly confounds"" ""Surprises, varies, and conceals the Bounds."" ""Consult the Genius of the Place in all;"" ""That"
"river and — I guess it’s supposed to be about opium — never are involved in life. Maybe there’s a bit of that in there,"" said Peter Buck. The Lotos-Eaters ""The Lotos-Eaters"" is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in Tennyson's 1832 poetry collection. It was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam, where they visited the Pyrenees mountains. The poem describes a group of mariners who, upon eating the lotos, are put into an altered state and isolated from the outside world. The title and concept derives from the lotus-eaters in"
"are in clear water. Rumi ends his poem by stating ""If each had a candle and they went in together the differences would disappear."" One of the most famous versions of the 19th century was the poem """" by John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887). The poem begins: Each in his own opinion concludes that the elephant is like a wall, snake, spear, tree, fan or rope, depending upon where they had touched. Their heated debate comes short of physical violence, but the conflict is never resolved. Natalie Merchant sang this poem in full on her Leave Your Sleep album (Disc 1,"
"Ubique (poem) ""Ubique"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Boer War, published in ""The Five Nations"" in 1903. Its title is derived from the Motto and Battle Honour of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, however the opening lines are attributed to the lack of knowledge of Latin within the ordinary ranks of the Gunners. Ubique is pronounced ""Ooh-Bee-Kway"", but is generally pronounced as ""You-Bee-Kway"". T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". Ubique (""everywhere"" in Latin) is the motto of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. It was given to"
"shall put on incorruption""). Other manuscripts that lack this phrase are formula_1, 088, 0121a, 0243, 1175, 1852, 1912, and 2200. In a marginal note to the text of 1 John 5:6, a corrector added the reading δι' ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος καὶ πνεύματος (""through water and blood and spirit"") as found in the following: Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, 104, 424, 614, 2412, 2495, ℓ ""598"", syr, cop, cop, Origen. Bart D. Ehrman says this reading is an Orthodox corrupt reading. The manuscript was copied by a monk named Ephraim. He copied 1739 from an uncial exemplar from the 4th century. It"
"Wright by the much younger Deborah Norris Logan states that Wright ""wrote not for fame, [and] never kept copies"" of her work. Wright's poems range from occasional verses to mystical poetry and meditations on such enduring themes as justice, time, death, immortality, friendship, family, and marriage. In one poem, for example, she calls memory ""A Bubble on the Water's Shining Face."" Yet in her more trenchant poems, her conclusions could be strikingly less conventional than her subject matter. A long poem written for one of her close friends and fellow unmarried women, ""To Eliza Norris—at Fairhill,"" questions the ""divine law"""
"centre of the earth from its surface, but its headwaters are located in the Earthly Paradise found at the top of the mountain of Purgatory. Souls about to enter Heaven drink from it to forget their sins. In John Keats' poem, ""Ode on Melancholy"", the first line begins ""No, no! Go not to Lethe"". In his ""Ode to a Nightingale"" the narrator sinks ""Lethe-wards,"" that is, into the ""drowsy numbness"" of the river. The fourth stanza of the fourth canto of Byron's ""Don Juan"" reads: ""And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep;"
"The title is a reference to the poem ""Cancion de Otoño en Primavera (Song of Autumn in the Springtime)"" by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío. <poem> Youth, divine treasure, Gone, never to come back! When I want to cry, I don't ... and sometimes I cry without a want ... </poem> Another translation: <poem> Youth, treasure only gods may keep, Fleeting from me forever now! I cannot, when I wish to, weep, And sometimes I cry, I know not how… </poem> Cuando quiero llorar no lloro Cuando quiero llorar no lloro (""When I want to cry, I don't"") is the"
"The Water Goblin The Water Goblin (; initially published by N. Simrock with the English title The Water-Fay) is a symphonic poem, Op. 107 (B. 195), written by Antonín Dvořák in 1896. The source of inspiration for ""The Water Goblin"" was a poem found in a collection published by Karel Jaromír Erben under the title ""Kytice"". Four of the six symphonic poems that Dvořák composed were inspired by works of poetry found in that collection. Vodník tells a story in four parts of a mischievous water goblin who traps drowning souls in upturned teacups. Dvořák's symphonic piece, which is written"
"The Water Is Wide (song) ""The Water Is Wide"" (also called ""O Waly, Waly"" or simply ""Waly, Waly"") is a folk song of Scottish origin, based on lyrics that partly date to the 1600s. It remains popular in the 21st century. Cecil Sharp published the song in ""Folk Songs From Somerset"" (1906). It is related to Child Ballad 204 (Roud number 87), ""Jamie Douglas"", which in turn refers to the ostensibly unhappy first marriage of James Douglas, 2nd Marquis of Douglas to Lady Barbara Erskine. The imagery of the lyrics describes the challenges of love: ""Love is handsome, love is"
"</poem> Lines 8–10 are quoted in the Philip K. Dick novel ""Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"". Flow, my tears ""Flow, my tears"" is a lute song (specifically, an ""ayre"") by the accomplished lutenist and composer John Dowland (1563–1626). Originally composed as an instrumental under the name ""Lachrimae pavane"" in 1596, it is Dowland's most famous ayre, and became his signature song, literally as well as metaphorically: he would occasionally sign his name ""Jo. Dolandi de Lachrimae"". Like others of Dowland's lute songs, the piece's musical form and style are based on a dance, in this case the pavan. It"
"We're All Water ""We're All Water"" is a song written by Yoko Ono that was first released on the 1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono album ""Some Time in New York City"". It was the last song on the first record of the album, and the last song on the album that was recorded in the studio (the second record was live). Ono sings the lead vocal. The lyrics of ""We're All Water"" describe all people as being essentially the same, despite their apparent differences. Some of the lyrics were adapted from ""Water Talk,"" a poem Ono had written in"
"To Althea, from Prison ""To Althea, from Prison"" is a poem written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line ""Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage"" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison adjoining Westminster Abbey to encourage the Clergy Act 1640 to be annulled. ""To Althea, from Prison"" was written by Richard Lovelace in 1642 as a result of Lovelace’s imprisonment. That year, Richard Lovelace presented a petition to the British parliament that protested the Bishops Exclusion"
"critic Richard Wilbur has described it as ""America's first flawless poem"". The narrator in George du Maurier's ""Peter Ibbetson"" calls it ""the most beautiful poem in the world"". To a Waterfowl ""To a Waterfowl"" is a poem by American poet William Cullen Bryant, first published in 1818. The narrator questions where the waterfowl is going and questions his motives for flying. He warns the waterfowl that he could possibly find danger, traveling alone. But this waterfowl is not alone; it is being led by some Power. As the waterfowl disappears out of the narrator's sight, the narrator reflects on God's"
"from the poem by the ""Republican"", but Emily regarded them as an integral part of her verse. The poem begins with a paradox (a liquor never brewed) and finishes with a striking image (a tippler supported by the sun rather than the traditional lamppost), both common devices in Dickinson's poetry. It employs slant rhyme in the first quatrain, where ""pearl"" is made to rhyme with ""alcohol"". Dickinson was censured for this (precisely this example by Andrew Lang) by some early critics while others celebrated it as avant-garde. That Dickinson used the slant rhyme in her manuscript version (it is not"
"tout un Léviathan""). It ends floating and washed clean, wishing only to sink and become one with the sea. Archibald MacLeish has commented on this poem: ""Anyone who doubts that poetry can say what prose cannot has only to read the so-called ""Lettres du Voyant"" and ""Bateau Ivre"" together. What is pretentious and adolescent in the ""Lettres"" is true in the poem—""unanswerably"" true."" French poet Paul Valéry stated that ""all known literature is written in the language of ""common sense""—except Rimbaud's"". His poetry influenced the Symbolists, Dadaists, and Surrealists, and later writers adopted not only some of his themes, but"
"All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight ""All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"" is a poem by American writer Ethel Lynn Beers. The poem was first published as ""The Picket Guard"" in the ""Harper's Weekly"" issue dated November 30, 1861. It attributed only to ""E.B."" It was reprinted broadly both with that attribution and without, leading to many spurious claims of authorship. On July 4, 1863, ""Harper's Weekly"" told its readers that the poem had been written for the paper by a lady contributor whom it later identified as Beers. The poem was based on newspaper reports of ""all is quiet"
"from the Pump.’ Dr. Baynard's popular work entitled ‘Health, a Poem. Shewing how to procure, preserve, and restore it. To which is annex'd The Doctor's Decade,’ was published at London in 1719, 8vo. The fourth edition appeared in 1731; the fifth, corrected, in 1736; the seventh in 1742; the eighth without date; and the ninth at Manchester in 1758. Another edition, also called the ninth, was published at London in 1764. The preface, partly in verse and partly in prose, is mainly directed against drunkenness; and the poem itself is made up of homely medical advice. Dr. Baynard has two"
"Birpurush (poem) ""Birpurush"" (, , English:""The Hero"") is a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. The poem depicts a child fantasising that he saves his mother from dacoits. In the evening, when the sun is set, the child and his mother reach a barren place. There is not a single soul there. Even the cattle have returned home. Plodding silence reigns there. The mother is a bit afraid and wonders where they have arrived. The child reassures her and tells her that there is a small river ahead. The mother sees a shimmering light and asks her son about it."
"Life"" (1867). He died at Winchester. William Whiting (poet) William Whiting (1 November 1825 – 3 May 1878) was an English writer and hymnist, best known for his 1860 hymn ""Eternal Father, Strong to Save"" (often called ""The Navy Hymn"", used by the Royal Navy for church services and later adopted by the US Navy). He was born in Kensington, England, and educated at Chapham and Winchester College. Because of his musical ability, he became master of Winchester College Choristers' School. While best known for ""Eternal Father, Strong to Save"", Whiting also published two poetry collections: ""Rural Thoughts"" (1851) and"
"Many Waters Many Waters is a 1986 novel by Madeleine L'Engle, part of the author's Time Quartet (also known as the Time Quintet). The title is taken from the Song of Solomon 8:7: ""Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. If a man were to give all his wealth for love, it would be utterly scorned."" The principal characters of the story are Sandy and Dennys Murry, twin brothers who are somewhat out of place in the context of the multifarious and eccentric Murry family from ""A Wrinkle in Time"". The action of the story follows"