"medievalism) is insufficient. The interweaving of death and life images gives expression to the greater concern for the afterlife, and the movement of the human race into a different age from past monuments. The well-known song ""Come into the garden, Maud"" appears at the end of the first part of ""Maud"". Maud, and Other Poems Maud and other poems was Alfred Tennyson's first collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850, published in 1855. Among the ""other poems"" was ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"", which had already been published in the ""Examiner"" a few months before. It was considered a"
"brother goes to London for a week, giving the narrator a chance to court Maud, but on his return he arranges a ball, invites the collier and leaves the narrator out. During the ball the poet waits for Maud in the garden, leading to the famous line ""Come into the garden, Maud"". Early in the morning Maud comes out. Shortly afterwards Maud's brother also comes out and strikes the narrator. The poet kills him in an unnarrated duel. The narrator is forced to flee to France where he learns later that Maud has also died. The reason is unclear, but"
"a dream in which he is visited by the personification of May. She demands that he rises and compose a poem in her honour. The poet complains that he can't meet her request. He claims to have had no inspiration recently. Patiently, May reminds him that he had previously promised her to write a poem about 'the most pleasant rose'. May then departs into a beautiful garden and, dressed hurriedly, the poet follows her. In the garden Dame Nature is holding court attended by other mythological characters. Dame Nature sends messengers to assemble all the animals, birds and plants of"
"The Garden (poem) ""The Garden"", by Andrew Marvell, is one of the most famous English poems of the seventeenth century. This poem was first published in Miscellaneous Poems. It was published for Robert Boulter, in 1681. This was the first edition. Miscellaneous Poems was sent to the press by Mary Marvell, who claimed she was Andrew's widow. Andrew Marvell's poem The Garden is a romantic poem. The poet's personal emotions and feelings are told throughout the words of nature. The poet explains the value of nature and is explaining it through the poem. Marvell recast much of his poem in"
"red and stout"" after giving birth to twins. Both eventually come to regret the marriage: Maud because she finds the Judge's emphasis on knowledge boring, while the Judge bemoans Maud's lack of refinement and social grace. Maud Muller ""Maud Muller"" is a poem from 1856 written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). It is about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller. One day, while harvesting hay, she meets a judge from the local town. Each is smitten with the other. The judge thinks that he would like to be a local farmer married to Maud, while she thinks that she would"
"have lost you, I must take up this thread’...This kind of stitching together has been seen before, most obviously perhaps in another poet who shares Maguire’s botanical and ecological preoccupations, Michael Longley. Sarah Maguire Sarah Maguire (26 March 1957 – 2 November 2017) was a British poet, and translator. Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems ""The Florist's at Midnight"" (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens,"
"as the poem moves back towards the world of myth, closing with another phrase from the ""Divine Comedy"", this time from ""Purgatorio"", Canto XXVIII. The phrase ""tu mi fai rimembrar"" translates as ""you remind me"" and comes from a passage in which Dante addresses Matilda, the presiding spirit of the Garden of Eden. What she reminds him of is Persephone at the moment that she is abducted by Hades and the spring flowers fell from her lap. This blending of a pagan sense of the divine into a Christian context stands for much of what appealed to Pound in medieval"
"Sarah Maguire Sarah Maguire (26 March 1957 – 2 November 2017) was a British poet, and translator. Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems ""The Florist's at Midnight"" (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens, and she edited the anthology ""Flora Poetica: the Chatto Book of Botanical Verse"" (2001). She was also Poet in Residence at Chelsea Physic Garden, and edited ""A Green Thought in a Green"
"Latin, ""Hortus"", printed to follow ""The Garden"" in the 1681 posthumous ""Miscellaneous Poems"": <poem> ""Quisnam adeo, mortale genus, præcordia versat? ""Heu Palmæ Laurique furor, vel simplicis Herbæ!... </poem> The Garden (poem) ""The Garden"", by Andrew Marvell, is one of the most famous English poems of the seventeenth century. This poem was first published in Miscellaneous Poems. It was published for Robert Boulter, in 1681. This was the first edition. Miscellaneous Poems was sent to the press by Mary Marvell, who claimed she was Andrew's widow. Andrew Marvell's poem The Garden is a romantic poem. The poet's personal emotions and feelings"
"a spacious garden near the Nile river. As the curtain rises, distant Egyptians are heard chanting a prayer for rain. Cleopatra's favored maids Iras and Mardion enter. Iras notes that Mardion is very pale. Mardion admits that she is hopelessly in love with Meïamoun, a lion hunter, but that he pays her no heed. A Eunuch enters, announcing that Cleopatra is approaching in her cangia, and would bathe before sunset. But he warns them of the queen's mood. Maidens and eunuchs prepare her bath with perfumed water and flower petals. Cleopatra's boat arrives, and the queen disembarks, and in her"
"have recognized myself as a poet."" Rimbaud wrote to several poets but received no replies, so his friend, office employee Charles Auguste Bretagne, advised him to write to Paul Verlaine, an eminent Symbolist poet. Rimbaud sent Verlaine two letters with several of his poems, including the hypnotic, finally shocking ""Le Dormeur du Val"" (The Sleeper in the Valley), in which Nature is called upon to comfort an apparently sleeping soldier. Verlaine was intrigued by Rimbaud, and replied, ""Come, dear great soul. We await you; we desire you,"" sending him a one-way ticket to Paris. Rimbaud arrived in late September 1871"
"meet the ""tall and black haired"" poet and asked Johnson to invite Yeats to tea on 10 May 1894, adding in her handwriting to the invitation, ""I shall be so glad to see you"". In his ""Memoirs"" Yeats referred to her as ""Diana Vernon"", writing, ""In this book I cannot giver her real name—Diana Vernon sounds pleasantly in my ears and will suit as well as any other"". They quickly established a strong friendship, with Olivia listening sympathetically to his obsessive love for Maud. When Yeats later described their friendship, he wrote, ""I told her of my love sorrow, indeed"
"visit another lord's castle on the circuit, eventually returning to his own home laden with gifts. The McGovern Duanaire or Book of Magauran is the oldest such Duanaire still surviving. The earliest poem in the book was composed in honour of Brian ‘Breaghach’ Mág Samhradháin c.1290 and the latest poem is in honour of Niall, composed about 1362. Poems 14, 15, 17, 30, 32 & 33 are dedicated to Niall and poems 13 & 16 to his wife Sadhbh. They were composed by the following poets who visited the castle during his reign- Mac Taidhg mac Raith (poem 13); two"
"Harold is his friend and will be returning to Normandy with him. Duke William and Alfnoth, with their men, escort Harold away, overpowering Siward's men. Duke William, Malet and Harold travel to Normandy. In a bower in the Duke of Normandy's garden at Bayeux Princess Adela and her maidens are singing and wreathing flowers. Harold enters the garden and seeing the princess plans to pretend to love her in order to seek his freedom, praying that Edith, his true love, forgive him. Adela has also made a promise to her father to entrap Harold into loving her, knowing full well"
"of previous poets. In return the chief would pay the poet with cattle or a horse or gold. The poet would then leave and visit another lord's castle on the circuit, eventually returning to his own home laden with gifts. The McGovern Duanaire or Book of Magauran is the oldest such Duanaire still surviving. The earliest poem in the book was composed in honour of Brian ‘Breaghach’ Mág Samhradháin c.1290 and the latest poem is in honour of Niall Mág Samhradháin, the son of Tomás, composed about 1362. The majority of poems in the book are dedicated to Tomás who"
"The Garden of Fand The Garden of Fand (1916) is a tone poem by the English composer Arnold Bax. It was inspired by an Irish mythical figure, Fand, the daughter of the lord of the ocean. The work does not portray the events of the mythical tale, but evokes Fand's island. The composer had been greatly influenced by Celtic culture in his earlier works, but described this one as his last in that vein. The work was complete in piano score shortly before the First World War, and orchestrated in 1916. It was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted"
"works in the LP and then the CD catalogues from the 1960s onwards, ""The Garden of Fand"" has received several modern recordings, including one conducted by Boult, fifty-two years after he introduced the work to England. Bax's score was used by Frederick Ashton for his ballet, ""Picnic at Tintagel"" (New York City Ballet, 1952). The Garden of Fand The Garden of Fand (1916) is a tone poem by the English composer Arnold Bax. It was inspired by an Irish mythical figure, Fand, the daughter of the lord of the ocean. The work does not portray the events of the mythical"
"their obscenity. More in the spirit of Garros is the charming trilingual ""Salut"" composed by the famous du Bartas in honor of a visit of Marguerite de Valois to Nérac (1579): three nymphs dispute as to whether she should be welcomed in Latin, French, or Gascon, and the last, of course, wins the day. Provence proper gave birth to a poet of considerable importance in Louis Bellaud de la Bellaudire (1532–1588), of Grasse, who, after studying at Aix, enlisted in the royal armies, and was made a prisoner at Moulins in 1572. During his captivity he wrote poems inspired by"
"in custody in order to gain a propaganda victory. Women continued to be arrested. On 1 June Maud was standing in protest outside Kilmainham Jail with Dorothy Macardle, the writer and activist, and Iseult Stuart. They were supporting hungerstriker Maire Comerford. Again the source for this story seems to be fellow ex-prisoner Hanna Moynihan. Many of Yeats's poems are inspired by her, or mention her, such as ""This, This Rude Knocking."" He wrote the plays ""The Countess Cathleen"" and ""Cathleen ni Houlihan"" for her. His poem ""Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"" ends with a reference to her: I"
"Ce fut en mai ""Ce fut en mai"", or ""Ce fu en mai"", is a French trouvère song, written in the 13th century by Moniot d'Arras. Its lyrics, in Old French, describe how a man sees a knight and a maiden cavorting in a garden. He follows them, and tells them of his unrequited love; they comfort him, and he cries and commends them to God. The song is a pastourelle and chanson, and was originally accompanied by dancing and medieval instruments like the vielle. ""Ce fut en mai"" has recently been recorded by early music performers such as Paul"
"Paulin Gagne Étienne-Paulin Gagne, known as Paulin Gagne (June 8, 1808 – August 1876) was a French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric whose best known poem, ""The Woman-Messiah"", is among the longest poems in French, or any language. The poem is 25,000 verses (60 acts and 12 songs) and is notable for its 24th act entitled ""Bestiologie"" which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes. He is also notable for proposing ""Anthropophagy"" at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians. Gagne was"
"Poe was attending a lecture by friend and poet Frances Sargent Osgood. As Poe and Osgood walked, they passed the home of Whitman while she was standing in the rose garden behind her house. Poe declined to be introduced to her. By this time, Whitman was already an admirer of Poe's stories. She admitted to her friend Mary Hewitt: A friend, Annie Lynch, had asked Whitman to write a poem for a Valentine's Day party in 1848. She agreed, and wrote one for Poe, though he was not in attendance. Poe heard about the tribute, ""To Edgar Allan Poe,"" and"
"The Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, ""The Economy of Vegetation"" and ""The Loves of the Plants"", by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. ""The Economy of Vegetation"" celebrates technological innovation, scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos. The more popular ""Loves of the Plants"" promotes, revises and illustrates Linnaeus's classification scheme for plants. One of the first popular science books, the intent of ""The Botanic Garden"" is to pique readers' interest in science while educating them at the same time. By embracing Linnaeus's"
"Maud Grieve Sophie Emma Magdalene Grieve (nee Law) known as Maud. (4 May 1858 - 21 December 1941) was a herbalist, plants woman and writer. Grieve was born in 1858 at 75 Upper Street, Islington, London. She and her husband lived in India until his retirement. She lived in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks, from 1906 to 1938 where she created a perennial nursery. At the outbreak of the First World War she turned the nursery into a herb farm to address the shortage of supplies of vital medicinal plants. She was a founder member of the short lived National Herb"
"appropriately. Le jardin de ma fenêtre (The garden by my window) describes a flower garden and hedgerow in April, and a sailor returning home. The poet, Desbordes-Valmore, loved flowers and decorated the balconies and windows of her apartments with flowers.22 The poem has four stanzas, huitains, and the rhyme scheme is A-B-A-B C-D-C-D. The first half of the poem (mm. 1–16), beginning without introduction, is set simply with tonic and dominant chords in Ab major. The melody is mostly stepwise, setting a peaceful scene of nature in each verse: the flower garden by the window, the evening swallow returning, the"
"visits by appointment only. Thanks to the success of L’Assommoir, French writer Émile Zola acquired a house in Médan in May 1878 that he referred to as a “rabbit hutch”. Over three years, he transformed it into a manor house where he led a relaxed lifestyle, with his garden and farm. He designed the park of which he always dreamed. During the summer in Médan, Zola hosted Cézanne, his childhood friend, and other artists such as Édouard Manet and Camille Pissarro, and naturalist writers such as Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant and J.K. Huysmans. The writers combined their efforts in"
"chief would pay the poet with cattle or a horse or gold. The poet would then leave and visit another lord's castle on the circuit, eventually returning to his own home laden with gifts. The McGovern Duanaire or Book of Magauran is the oldest such Duanaire still surviving. The earliest poem in the book was composed in honour of Brian ‘Breaghach’ Mág Samhradháin c.1290 and the latest poem is in honour of Niall Mág Samhradháin, the son of Tomás, composed about 1362. Poem number 11 in the book is dedicated to Maghnus. It was composed by Raghnall Ó'hUiginn (d.1325) from"
"false by Tennyson, while also expressing his own judgement on the whole event as ""a bit of a joke"". Another of the ""other poems"" was ""Come into the Garden"". The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. 1877). Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as ""the Eden where she dwelt"" in Tennyson's poem ""The Gardener's Daughter""). The first part of the poem dwells on the funeral of"
"The Panther (poem) The Panther (subtitled: ""In Jardin des Plantes, Paris"") is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke written on 6 November 1902. It describes a captured panther behind bars, as it was exhibited in the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. It is one of Rilke's most famous poems and has been translated into English many times, including by many distinguished translators of Rilke, like Stephen Mitchell, C. F. MacIntyre, J. B. Leishman and Walter Arndt, Jessie Lamont and poets like Robert Bly. It is used in the film ""Awakenings"" (1990) by the protagonist Leonard Lowe as"
"Cad Goddeu Cad Goddeu (, ) is a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book of Taliesin. The poem refers to a traditional story in which the legendary enchanter Gwydion animates the trees of the forest to fight as his army. The poem is especially notable for its striking and enigmatic symbolism and the wide variety of interpretations this has occasioned. Some 248 short lines long (usually five syllables and a rest), and falling into several sections, the poem begins with an extended claim of first-hand knowledge of all things, in a fashion found later"
"required two miles of green oak boarding, fixed by coach bolts. In 2009 landscape designer Kim Wilkie was commissioned to create a new work to complement an existing pyramidal grassed mount. The result, called ""Orpheus"", is named after the famed musician of Greek mythology who, when his wife Eurydice died, went down into the underworld to try to reclaim her. His music was so beautiful that Hades relented and allowed Eurydice to return to the world of the living. This striking landform seamlessly continues the garden's intellectual dialogue via an immense inverted pyramid and spiral rill, both set within a"
"a flock of goats, her teeth like shorn ewes, and so on from face to breasts. Place-names feature heavily: her neck is like the Tower of David, her smell like the scent of Lebanon. He hastens to summon his beloved, saying that he is ravished by even a single glance. The section becomes a ""garden poem"", in which he describes her as a ""locked garden"" (usually taken to mean that she is chaste). The woman invites the man to enter the garden and taste the fruits. The man accepts the invitation, and a third party tells them to eat, drink,"
"Madog Benfras Madog Benfras (i.e. Madog ""Greathead"") (fl. 1340) was a Welsh poet. He is otherwise known from involvement in legal cases at Wrexham in 1340. He was a son of Gruffydd ab Iorwerth of Marchwiail, and had two brothers; Llywelyn Llogell (Marchwiail parish priest), and Ednyfed. The so-called ""Brodyr Marchwiail"" from Marchwiel played a part in a 14th-century revival of Welsh poetry. Iolo Morganwg cites their teacher as Llywelyn ap Gwilym of Emlyn. Madog Benfras has also been associated with the ""Eisteddfods of the Renaissance"", where he allegedly won a chair and wreath of birch for his love poem."