"serio-comic treatment of the subject of women's education, adapted and parodied the poem twice. First, in 1870, he produced a musical farce called ""The Princess"". Later, in 1884, he adapted his farce into a comic opera with composer Arthur Sullivan entitled ""Princess Ida"", which is still performed regularly today. Other musical works inspired by the poem include a setting of ""As Through the Land"" composed by the poet Edward Lear in his lesser-known capacity as a composer. Both Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frank Bridge composed settings for the ""Tears, Idle Tears"" section of ""The Princess"". Gustav Holst set ""Home They"
"The Sun Rising (poem) ""The Sun Rising"" (also known as ""The Sunne Rising"") is a thirty line poem with three stanzas published in 1633 by poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern. The longest lines are at the end of the three stanzas and the rhyme never varies—each stanza runs ABBACDCDEE. Donne's poems were known to be metaphysical with jagged rhythms, dramatic monologues, playful intelligence, and startling images. The poem personifies the sun. ""The Sun Rising"" is one of Donne's best-known works. Stanza one begins with the speaker"
"On the Ning Nang Nong ""On the Ning Nang Nong"" is a poem by the comedian Spike Milligan. The poem was featured in the book named ""Silly Verse For Kids"" which was published in 1959. In 1998 it was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poems by poets such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. This nonsense verse, set to music, became popular in Australia where it was performed weekly on the ABC children's programme Play School, however, it is now only shown on occasion. In December 2007 it was reported that,"
"Quiet Night Thought Quiet Night Thought () is the title of a famous poem written by the Tang Dynasty poet, Li Bai (also known as Li Bo or Li Po). The text below is a Qing-dynasty version, with Mandarin pronunciation. It is taught to children in both Taiwan and Mainland Chinese schools: There are other versions of this poem that replace ""the bright moonlight"" () with ""I see the moonlight"" () and/or with ""the mountain and the moon"" (). The insertion of the character (""míng"" ""light/bright"") into poetry was common practice during the Ming dynasty (), whose Chinese name features"
"The Nasobame Das Nasobēm, usually translated into English as The Nasobame, is a short nonsense poem by German writer Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914). It was written around 1895 and published in his book ""Galgenlieder"" (1905). This poem is notable for, among other things, having inspired zoologist Gerolf Steiner to write in 1961 an extremely popular mock-scientific treatise on the fictitious animal order of the Rhinogradentia, also called ""nasobames"" or ""snouters"", whose nasal appendages had evolved in many amazing ways. Poetic translations of this poem (by Robert Weill - French, G.G. Simpson - English and L. Chadwick - English) can be found"
"Gonçalves Dias Antônio Gonçalves Dias (; August 10, 1823November 3, 1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as ""Indianism"", he is famous for writing ""Canção do exílio"" (arguably the most well-known poem of Brazilian literature), the short narrative poem ""I-Juca-Pirama"", the unfinished epic ""Os Timbiras"", and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would award him posthumously with the title of national poet of Brazil. He was also an avid researcher of Native Brazilian languages and folklore. He is the patron of the 15th"
"Jibanananda Das Jībanānanda Dāś (, ) (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was a Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist. Popularly called ""Rupashi Banglar Kabi<nowiki>""</nowiki> (Poet of Beautiful Bengal), Das is probably the most read poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Nazrul Islam in Bangladesh and West Bengal. While not particularly recognised initially, today Das is acknowledged as one of the greatest poets in the Bengali language. Born in Barishal to a Vaidya-Brahmo family, Das studied English literature at Presidency College, Kolkata and earned his MA from Calcutta University. He had a troubling career and suffered financial hardship throughout his"
"similarly complex. Among his works is a long, autobiographical verse narrative, but he is best known for his poem ""Ode to the Goose"", said to have been written when he was seven years old. His ""Ode to the Cicada"" is also of great renown and influence. Luo Binwang Luo Binwang (, ca. 619–684?), courtesy name Guanguang (觀光/观光), was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. His family was from Wuzhou, modern Yiwu, Zhejiang, but he was raised in Shandong. Luo is grouped with Lu Zhaolin, Wang Bo, and Yang Jiong as the Four Paragons of the Early Tang, the most"
"the entire world. The Sun Rising (poem) ""The Sun Rising"" (also known as ""The Sunne Rising"") is a thirty line poem with three stanzas published in 1633 by poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern. The longest lines are at the end of the three stanzas and the rhyme never varies—each stanza runs ABBACDCDEE. Donne's poems were known to be metaphysical with jagged rhythms, dramatic monologues, playful intelligence, and startling images. The poem personifies the sun. ""The Sun Rising"" is one of Donne's best-known works. Stanza one begins"
"spirit of knight errantry in four lines."" ""The Swordsman"" reads in Liu's translation as follows: Pine, Red, and Mike O'Connor. ""The clouds should know me by now: Buddhist poet monks of China."" Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1999. Includes selection of dual-language poems. Jia Dao Jia Dao () (779–843), courtesy name Langxian (浪仙), was a Chinese poet active during the Tang dynasty. He was born near modern Beijing; after a period as a Buddhist monk, he went to Chang'an. He became one of Han Yu's disciples, but failed the ""jinshi"" exam several times. He wrote both discursive ""gushi"" and lyric ""jintishi"". His"
"Marco Polo a bit later. The scenery of Daming Lake is also featured in the novel """"The Travels of Lao Can"""" by Liu E and the essay """"The Winter of Jinan"""" () by Lao She. Daming Lake is also the subject of a poem by Han Fuju, military governor of Shandong from 1930 to 1938, that has been frequently quoted to ridicule him: <br> <br> ""The Daming (""Daming"" means ""big brightness"") Lake, the bright lake is big""<br> <br> <br> ""In the Daming Lake are lotus flowers""<br> <br> <br> ""On the lotuses are toads""<br> <br> <br> ""[You] prick them once, [the"
"character in Tang Xianzu's play ""The Purple Flute"" of the same name, which has been taken as a reference to her. Du Qiuniang Du Qiuniang or Lady Du Qiu (?–825?) was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet. She is the only female poet to be included in the famous anthology ""Three Hundred Tang Poems"". Born in Jinling (modern Nanjing), she became a concubine of the military governor Li Qi at fifteen. After Li was executed for rebelling against Emperor Xianzong, Du served in the emperor's palace. Her only surviving poem is the ""Golden Dress Song"" (), said to have been addressed"
"public squares and streets all over Brazil. Gonçalves Dias Antônio Gonçalves Dias (; August 10, 1823November 3, 1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as ""Indianism"", he is famous for writing ""Canção do exílio"" (arguably the most well-known poem of Brazilian literature), the short narrative poem ""I-Juca-Pirama"", the unfinished epic ""Os Timbiras"", and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would award him posthumously with the title of national poet of Brazil. He was also an avid researcher of Native Brazilian languages and folklore."
"A more recent translator, Red Pine (Bill Porter) has translated ""Ode to the Autumn Wind"" (秋风引 Qiūfēng yǐn, the same poem as Giles's ""Summer Dying"" above), ""The Peach Blossoms of Hsuantu Temple"" (玄都觀桃花 Xuándū Guàn Táohuā), and ""Visiting Hsuantu Temple Again"" (再遊玄都觀 Zài Yóu Xuándū Guān). One of his most famous works is 'Loushi Ming' 陋室銘, ""The Scholar's Humble Dwelling"", a prose-poem describing living in a simple dwelling, following a life that is refined in culture and learning: 'Loushi Ming' 陋室銘 is famous. There is a song composed for that poem in 2016. That song appears in a music sheet"
"the author of a curious poem dedicated to the eyeglasses, a Western innovation brought to Macau by the Portuguese. Kong Shangren Kong Shangren (; 1648 – 1718) was a Qing dynasty dramatist and poet best known for his ""chuanqi"" play ""The Peach Blossom Fan"" about the last days of the Ming dynasty. Born in Qufu, Kong was a 64th-generation descendant of Confucius. He guided the Kangxi Emperor when he visited Qufu. ""The Peach Blossom Fan"" tells the story of the love story between the scholar Hou Fangyu and the courtesan Li Xiangjun, against the dramatic backdrop of the short history"
"version of the poem, including the German spelling of ""Donder and Blitzen,"" rather than the original 1823 version using the Dutch spelling, ""Dunder and Blixem"". Both phrases translate as ""Thunder and Lightning"" in English, though German for ""thunder"" is now spelled ""Donner"", and the Dutch words would now be spelled ""Donder"" and ""Bliksem"". Rudolph's story was originally written in verse by Robert L. May for the Montgomery Ward chain of department stores in 1939, and published as a book to be given to children in the store at Christmas time. According to this story, Rudolph's glowing red nose made him"
"in his 1988 sequel . The Nasobame Das Nasobēm, usually translated into English as The Nasobame, is a short nonsense poem by German writer Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914). It was written around 1895 and published in his book ""Galgenlieder"" (1905). This poem is notable for, among other things, having inspired zoologist Gerolf Steiner to write in 1961 an extremely popular mock-scientific treatise on the fictitious animal order of the Rhinogradentia, also called ""nasobames"" or ""snouters"", whose nasal appendages had evolved in many amazing ways. Poetic translations of this poem (by Robert Weill - French, G.G. Simpson - English and L. Chadwick"
"later inspired ""Rain on the Paulownia Tree"" (Wutong yu) by Bai Pu (1226-after 1306) and ""The Palace of Eternal Youth"" (Changsheng dian) by Hong Sheng (洪升, 1645-1704). Painter Li Yishi (李毅士, 1886-1942) illustrated the poem with a series of thirty paintings. In classical music the poem has been set as a cantata by Huang Zi (1933) and as an orchestral song by Mo Fan (1991). The poem is referenced in the writings of Mao Zedong. Author Madeleine Thien quotes from the poem in the closing pages of her award-winning 2016 novel, ""Do Not Say We Have Nothing"". Chang hen ge"
"Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred"
"The Distrest Poet The Distrest Poet is an oil painting produced sometime around 1736 by the British artist William Hogarth. Reproduced as an etching and engraving, it was published in 1741 from a third state plate produced in 1740. The scene was probably inspired by Alexander Pope's satirical poem ""The Dunciad"". It depicts a scene in a small, dingy attic room where a poet sits at his desk in the dormer and, scratching his head, stares at the papers on the desk before him, evidently looking for inspiration to complete the poem he is writing. Near him sits his wife"
"also published in a wide variety of Australian newspapers and magazines. C. J. Dennis Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems, especially ""The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke"", published in the early 20th century. Though Dennis's work is less well known today, his 1916 publication of ""The Sentimental Bloke"" sold 65,000 copies in its first year, and by 1917 he was the most prosperous poet in Australian history. Together with Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, both of whom he had"
"of Kunwar Inderjit Singh. Laxmi Prasad Devkota Laxmi Prasad Devkota (, 12 November 1909 – 14 September 1959) was a Nepali poet, :playwright, and novelist. Honoured with the title of ""Maha Kavi"" (literal translation: 'Great Poet') in Nepali literature,and is known as the poet with the golden heart. Devkota is by and large regarded as the greatest poet(महाकबि) in the of Nepal and Nepali language. Some of his popular works include ""Muna Madan"", ""Sulochana"",""Kunjini"", and ""Sakuntala"". Devkota was born on the night of Laxmi Pooja on 12 November 1909 (1966 Kartik 27 BS) to father Teel Madhav Devkota and mother"
"Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi The Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi (; ; also translated as Song of the Jeweled Mirror Samadhi and Sacred Mirror Samadhi) is a Zen poem in Classical Chinese that appeared during the Song Dynasty. The work is often attributed to Dongshan Liangjie (Japanese: Tōzan Ryōkai), the co-founder of the Caodong/Sōtō branch of Zen Buddhism, although modern research suggests this is unlikely. The poem is first mentioned in Juefan Huihong's biographical compilation of 1119, the ""Chanlin sengbao zhuan"" (""Chronicle of the Sangha Treasure in the Groves of Chan""), written over 200 years after Dongshan"
"Texts Talks Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is"
"Dante Alighieri Durante degli Alighieri (), commonly known by his short name Dante Alighieri or simply as Dante (; , ; – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His ""Divine Comedy"", originally called ' (modern Italian: ""Commedia"") and later christened ' by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. In the late Middle Ages, most poetry was written in Latin, accessible only to the most educated readers. In ""De vulgari eloquentia"" (""On Eloquence in the Vernacular""), however, Dante defended the"
"most well-known poems are ""Changsha"" (1925), ""The Double Ninth"" (1929.10), ""Loushan Pass"" (1935), ""The Long March"" (1935), ""Snow"" (1936.02), ""The PLA Captures Nanjing"" (1949.04), ""Reply to Li Shuyi"" (1957.05.11), and ""Ode to the Plum Blossom"" (1961.12). Informal Translation: Changsha In the (rhyme) pattern of ""Qinyuanchun"" <poem> Alone I stand in the autumn cold On the tip of Orange Island, The Xiang flowing northward; I see a thousand hills crimsoned through By their serried woods deep-dyed, And a hundred barges vying Over crystal blue waters. Eagles cleave the air, Fish glide under the shallow water; Under freezing skies a million creatures"
"including English, French, Spanish, and German. His 100th anniversary in December 2016 was scheduled to be commemorated by the republication of his collected works which will now include recently discovered and previously unpublished poems. The Midang Literary House was opened in the year after his death, sited in poet’s native village and final resting place. The Midang Literary Prize is presented there during the chrysanthemum season, in commemoration of his most famous poem, ""Beside the Chrysanthemum"" (국화옆에서): The chrysanthemum blooms in late autumn and is associated with the first frosts, the point at which the poem comes to rest. First"
"as Li Bai and Du Fu. These poems are about various topics including friendship, politics, idyllic life and ladies' life, and so on. <poem> 《旅夜書懷》 杜甫 細草微風岸，危檣獨夜舟。 星垂平野闊，月湧大江流。 名豈文章著，官應老病休。 飄飄何所似？天地一沙鷗。 </poem> Major translators of Tang poetry into English include Herbert Giles, L. Cranmer-Byng, Archie Barnes, Amy Lowell, Arthur Waley, Witter Bynner, A. C. Graham, Shigeyoshi Obata, Burton Watson, Gary Snyder, David Hinton, Wai-lim Yip, Red Pine (Bill Porter), and Xian Mao. Ezra Pound drew on notes given to him by the widow of Ernest Fenollosa in 1913 to create English poems indirectly through the Japanese, including some Li Bai poems,"
"The spectacles this poem expressed also made deep impression on the Tang poetry. We can also see the poem in the Chinese textbook of grade seven. What’s more, Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, quoted the poem in the lecture of Cambridge University. Wang Wan Wang Wan (, 693-751), was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet. Ten of his poems are preserved, and the most famous poem among those is ""A Mooring Under North Fort Hill"" (次北固山下). Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, quoted the poem in the lecture of Cambridge University in England. Wang Wan was attracted by mountains and lakes in"
"Wang Wan Wang Wan (, 693-751), was a Tang dynasty Chinese poet. Ten of his poems are preserved, and the most famous poem among those is ""A Mooring Under North Fort Hill"" (次北固山下). Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, quoted the poem in the lecture of Cambridge University in England. Wang Wan was attracted by mountains and lakes in Jiangnan and influenced by the delicate style of poetry at that time. So he wrote some works to chant the beautiful mountains and lakes. This poem was praised highly by the dignitary and became the model of many scholars to learn from."
"Up, Rise Up, Balkan Hero"", ""The Wind is Resounding, the Mountain is Moaning"", and ""Where are you, Faithful Love of the People?"". Chintulov Ridge on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica is named after Dobri Chintulov. Dobri Chintulov Dobri Petrov Chintulov () (1822 — 27 March 1886) was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period. Born in the town of Sliven (then in Ottoman Thrace, today in Bulgaria) in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown. Due to a lack of funds, however, he"
"Lenore ""Lenore"" is a poem by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. It began as a different poem, ""A Paean"", and was not published as ""Lenore"" until 1843. The poem discusses proper decorum in the wake of the death of a young woman, described as ""the queenliest dead that ever died so young"". The poem concludes: ""No dirge shall I upraise,/ But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!"" Lenore's fiancé, Guy de Vere, finds it inappropriate to ""mourn"" the dead; rather, one should celebrate their ascension to a new world. Unlike most of Poe's"
"Dionysios Solomos Dionysios Solomos (; ; 8 April 1798 – 9 February 1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the ""Hymn to Liberty"" (, ""Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían""), of which the first two stanzas, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, became the Greek national anthem in 1865. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, and is considered the national poet of Greece—not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable"