"John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon after following a mental breakdown."
"at Oxford since 1797. Montefiore, writing in 1902, described the poem as ""the most successful and popular piece of religious verse of the first half of the [19th] century"". A later biographer, Derrick Hughes, finds its contemporary acclaim puzzling: ""It is not a good, not even a mediocre poem; it is leaden"". In the United States it was published as ""Palestine and other poems"", and also included memoirs of Heber's life. Palestine (poem) Palestine is an 1803 romantic long poem by noted clergyman Reginald Heber, successfully entered for the Newdigate Prize. Heber had been helped in this composition by Sir"
"Palestine (poem) Palestine is an 1803 romantic long poem by noted clergyman Reginald Heber, successfully entered for the Newdigate Prize. Heber had been helped in this composition by Sir Walter Scott, a family friend, before the future novelist's years of fame. They'd had a discussion over breakfast about Palestine, and he began writing it before he left the table. When Heber declaimed the poem at that year's Encaenia ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre, it was given an enthusiastic reception. The poem was later published, and was set to music by the composer William Crotch, who had been professor of music"
"Kipling's 1897 poem ""Recessional"". The 1962 Italian peplum movie, ""War Gods of Babylon"", is based on the sacking and fall of Nineveh by the combined rebel armies led by the Babylonians. Nineveh Nineveh (; ; ) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and was the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Today it is a common name for the half of Mosul which lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris. It was the largest city in the"
"inspired by his 1856 trip to the Holy Land. It is among the longest single poems in American literature. The title character is a young American student of divinity who travels to Jerusalem to renew his faith. One of the central characters, Rolfe, is similar to Melville in his younger days, a seeker and adventurer, while the reclusive Vine is loosely based on Hawthorne, who had died twelve years before. A bequest from his uncle, Peter Gansevoort, paid for publication in 1876, but epic-length verse-narrative was considered quite obscure even in his own time. The book had an initial printing"
"and five thousand"" (i.e. 185,000), so by morning most of the Assyrian army was found to have died, mysteriously, in their sleep (2 Kings 19:35), and Sennacherib went back to Nineveh. The Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem is historical (dated 701 BC), but the Assyrian annals report that the result was the payment of tribute by Jerusalem, with Hezekiah remaining in office as a vassal ruler. The poem was popular in Victorian England and, when the first Australian cricket team to tour England defeated a strong MCC team, including W G Grace, at Lord's on 27 May 1878, the satirical magazine"
"delivering a message of a lover's unfaithfulness. The raven's role as a messenger in Poe's poem may draw from those stories. Nepenthe, a drug mentioned in Homer's ""Odyssey"", erases memories; the narrator wonders aloud whether he could receive ""respite"" this way: ""Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"" Poe also mentions the Balm of Gilead, a reference to the Book of Jeremiah (8:22) in the Bible: ""Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?"" In that context, the Balm of"
"from her prize-winning poem on Pieter Bruegel’s ""The Triumph of Death"", the 2002 Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the title poem ""Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth"", which she has stated came from hearing Le Trio Joubran; in addition to a conversation with Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, and Introduction to the posthumous diary and poems of Mahmoud Darwish. ""Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth"" is said to have a 'magnificent central section on the Crucifixion,' and be steeped in the Middle East, Judaism, Christianity and Islam: ""Padel is a poetic Daniel Barenboim, determined to"
"home of our life, And save the downtrodden soon, in our own days. Blessed are you ""Lord"", who makes glad the children of Zion [""or"" makes Zion to rejoice in her children]. </poem> Very similar to Massekhet Soferim, paragraph 11, which begins ""Comfort [""Naham"", instead of ""rahaym"" ], ""Lord"" our God, Zion your city..."" and ends ""who comforts the children of Zion."" Zion means Mount Zion, the hill in Jerusalem on which the Temple stood, although it had been destroyed centuries before this blessing was composed. It is possible that Mount Zion is mentioned deliberately to refute the Samaritans, who"
"and he ""fled from the iron cage where he felt like a bird with a broken wing"" and set off a journey about the Middle East. His travels gave him material for his famous poem ""Tohfat-ul Iraqein"" (in Persian: تحفه العراقين meaning A Gift from the Two Iraqs), the two Iraqs being 'Persian Iraq' (western Iran) and 'Arabic Iraq' (Mesopotamia)). This book supplies us with a good deal of material for his biography and in which he described his impressions of the Middle East. He also wrote his famous qasida ""The Portals at Madain"" (in Persian: ايوان مداين) beautifully painting"
"Clarel Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes. ""Clarel"" is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the ""Iliad"", ""Aeneid"" and ""Paradise Lost""). As well as for its great length, ""Clarel"" is notable for being the major work of Melville's later years. Clarel, a young theology student whose belief has begun to waver, travels to Jerusalem to renew his faith in the sites and scenes of Jesus Christ's mortal ministry. He stays"
"farmer. In the 1790 and 1800 UUnited States Census he is listed in Middlefield, and in the 1820 Census he is listed in Hinsdale. Bissell died on October 24, 1823 and was buried in the Maple Street Cemetery in Hinsdale, Massachusetts. This timetable appears in Elias Boudinot's book ""Journal of Events in the Revolution"". Although Paul Revere is better known due to the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bissell was the subject of the less well known ""Ride, Israel, Ride"", an epic poem by Marie Rockwood of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. According to Syracuse University professor of television and popular culture,"
"chapters. In the first four chapters Ibn Ezra writes generally of prose and prose-writers, of poetry and poets, and of the natural poetic gift of the Arabs, which he attributes to the climate of Arabia. He concludes the fourth chapter with the statement that, with very rare exceptions, the poetical parts of the Bible have neither meter nor rhyme. The fifth chapter begins with the history of the settlement of the Jews in Spain, which, according to the author, began during the Exile, the word ""Sepharad"" used by the prophet Obadiah (verse 20) meaning ""Spain."" Then comes a description of"
"Masefield turned away from the long poem and back to the novel, and from 1924 till the start of World War II published 12 novels, which vary from stories of the sea (""The Bird of Dawning"", ""Victorious Troy"") to social novels about modern England (""The Hawbucks"", ""The Square Peg""), and from tales of an imaginary land in Central America (""Sard Harker"", ""Odtaa"") to fantasies for children (""The Midnight Folk"", ""The Box of Delights""). This variety in genre testifies most impressively to the breadth of his imagination, though it probably reduced his sales (which remained very respectable, however), since most readers"
"""The Sleeper"" and ""The Valley of Unrest."" Poe was inspired at least in part by Flavius Josephus's ""History of the Jewish Wars"", a first-century account of the Biblical city of Gomorrah. The poem also bears a resemblance to Lucretius's classical poem ""De Rerum Natura"" and, specifically, an English translation by John Mason Good. Thirty-five of eighty-five consecutive lines parallel the work. Poe's last version of the poem may also reference Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"" with the term ""proud tower"". The mood and style of the poem also seem to echo ""Kubla Khan"", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, known"
"it to her friend Elizabeth Oakes Smith with the title ""To the Sinless Child."" This copy is now preserved in the library of the University of Virginia. Written while Poe was at West Point, ""Israfel"" is a poem in eight stanzas of varying lengths that was first published in April 1831 in ""Poems of Edgar A. Poe"". It was re-worked and republished for the August 1836 issue of the ""Southern Literary Messenger"". In an introduction to the poem, Poe says that Israfel is described in the Koran as an angel whose heart is a lute and who has ""the sweetest"
"Menahem their gratitude for establishing a Mizrachi branch in Bombay. They also acknowledge the importance of his meeting with Gandhi, and express the hope that the meeting with Rabbi Menahem might have opened Gandhi’s eyes and change his negative attitude about Israel and the Jews. In his poems Rabbi Menahem expresses his deepest love for Zion. His love for Zion was political, nationalistic and religious. It's the Promised Land from where the people of Israel were exiled and to where they were promised to return. The trip to India negatively affected his health, and upon return, exhausted and worn out,"
"vision. He also wrote 23 Anacreontic (classical metre) poems on such themes as the Muslim siege of Jerusalem and on various liturgical celebrations. His ""Anacreontica"" 19 and 20 seem to be an expression of the longing desire he had of the Holy City, possibly when he was absent from Jerusalem during one of his many journeys. The order of the two poems has to be inverted to establish a correct sequence of the diverse subjects. Arranged in this way, the two poems describe a complete circuit throughout the most important sanctuaries of Jerusalem at the end of the 6th century,"
"the mind. Unhappy we the setting sun deplore, So glorious once, but ah! it shines no more. Behold the prophet in his tow'ring flight! He leaves the earth for heav'n's unmeasur'd height, And worlds unknown receive him from our sight. There Whitefield wings with rapid course his way, And sails to Zion through vast seas of day. Thy pray'rs, great saint, and thine incessant cries Have pierc'd the bosom of thy native skies. Thou moon hast seen, and all the stars of light, How he has wrestled with his God by night. He pray'd that grace in ev'ry heart might"
"novel ""The Painted Veil"" by W. Somerset Maugham, the last words of the poem ""An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"", ""The dog it was that died"", are the dying words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, one of the primary characters in the novel. Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He"
"an outbreak of violence. The Destruction of Sennacherib ""The Destruction of Sennacherib"" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his ""Hebrew Melodies"". It is based on an event from the campaign by Assyrian king Sennacherib to capture Jerusalem, as described in the Bible (2 Kings 18–19, Isaiah 36–37). The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian besieging of Jerusalem in 701 BC. The rhythm of the poem has a feel of the beat of a galloping horse's hooves (an anapestic tetrameter) as the Assyrian rides into battle. For clarification, YHWH here relates"
"crimes, responding with a quote from Everlasting Mercy: The Everlasting Mercy The Everlasting Mercy is a poem by John Masefield, the UK's second longest-serving poet laureate. It was published in 1911, and is styled as the confession of a man who has turned from sin to Christianity. The work that first made Masefield famous, it shocked early 20th century British sensibilities with its direct, honest, and therefore often harsh language, as the life of protagonist violent, drunken womanizer Saul Kane is laid out in detail. In the third episode of the series Peter Gunn, ""The Vicious Dog"", the last line"
"104, Hebrew part. Aaron ben Eliezer (poet) Aaron ben Eliezer was a liturgical poet, who lived in Safed from the year 1545. He was the author of a collection of poems and prayers printed at Mantua in 1561, entitled ""Sefer ha-Miẓnefet"" (The Book of the Miter). His booklet treats chiefly of the glories of Palestine, for love of which land he had left his home; and it includes a number of poems upon the thirteen articles of the Jewish creed. This Aaron is probably the same as the one honorably mentioned by a writer of 1500-35 given in Luncz, ""Jerusalem"
"Laureate John Masefield (1878–1967), as the greatest loss of all the poets killed during the war. On 11 November 1985, Sorley was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by Wilfred Owen. It reads: ""My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."" ""It Is Easy To Be Dead"" by Neil McPherson, a play on his life, based on his poetry and letters, was presented at the Finborough Theatre, London, and subsequently at Trafalgar Studios, London, in 2016"
"to respond to Ligeia's calling, which results in their remaining in Al Aaraaf. Nesace Nesace (, ; from Greek , """" 'small island') is one of the more prominent characters featured in Edgar Allan Poe's early epic poem ""Al Aaraaf"", which came out in 1829 in the poetry anthology ""Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems"". Together with ""Tamerlane"", ""Al Aaraaf"" is Poe's most extensive poem. It received mostly negative reviews for its complexity, obscure references, and odd structure. Nesace is the ruler of the ""anchored realm"" that is Al Aaraaf, a Purgatory of sorts set between Heaven and Hell. She"
"to have been inspired by Immanuel of Rome. Some of al-Ḍāhirī's poems are panegyrics influenced by the Arabic ""madiḥ"", in praise of great Jewish scholars, such as Rabbeinu Yerucham (1290-1350), a Provençal rabbi who moved to Spain in 1306, following the expulsion of the Jews from France. Other panegyrics were written about Rabbi Obadiah di Bertinoro (c. 1445-1515) and Maimonides. Sometimes the poet deviates from what is proper usage for a given noun, verb or adjective and changes the word's suffix in order to bring it into conformity with the rhyme. Most scholars agree that al-Ḍāhirī's greatest achievement is not"
"Al Aaraaf ""Al Aaraaf"" is an early poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1829. It is based on stories from the Qur'an, and tells of the afterlife in a place called Al Aaraaf. At 422 lines, it is Poe's longest poem. ""Al Aaraaf"", which Poe claimed to have written before he was 15, was first published as the major poem in Poe's 1829 collection ""Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems"". The book and ""Al Aaraaf"" in particular received mostly negative reviews for its complexity, obscure references, and odd structure. Some, however, noted the potential in the"
"with a lion, in reference to the lion as an Assyrian symbol of power; Nineveh is the lion of strength that has a den full of dead prey but will become weak like the lion hiding in its den. It comes to conclusion with a taunt song and funeral dirge of the impending destruction of Nineveh and the ""sleep"" or death of the Assyrian people and demise of the once great Assyrian conqueror-rulers . Nahum's prophecy carries a particular warning to the Ninevites of coming events, although he is partly in favor of the destruction. One might even say that"
"and given the title linking them to pilgrimage after the Babylonian captivity. They were well suited for being sung by their poetic form and the sentiments they express. ""They are characterized by brevity, by a key-word, by epanaphora [""i.e."", repetition], and by their epigrammatic style... More than half of them are cheerful, and all of them hopeful."" As a collection, they contain a number of repeated formulaic phrases, as well as an emphasis on Zion. There are two references to the Songs of Ascents in the Mishnah, noting the correspondence between the fifteen songs and the temple's fifteen steps between"
"The Destruction of Sennacherib ""The Destruction of Sennacherib"" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his ""Hebrew Melodies"". It is based on an event from the campaign by Assyrian king Sennacherib to capture Jerusalem, as described in the Bible (2 Kings 18–19, Isaiah 36–37). The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian besieging of Jerusalem in 701 BC. The rhythm of the poem has a feel of the beat of a galloping horse's hooves (an anapestic tetrameter) as the Assyrian rides into battle. For clarification, YHWH here relates to God. The poem"
"poem, entitled ""Elef Alfin"" (""Thousand Alephs""), composed of 1000 words, each of which begins with the letter aleph, also attributed to Abraham Bedersi, seems to have been written by Jedaiah. In this poem the author bewails the sufferings and the exile of the Jews, which can only refer to the banishment of the Jews from France in 1306 (compare Luzzatto, l.c.; ""Shem haGedolim,"" of Chaim Yosef David Azulai ii. s.v.; Heinrich Graetz, ""Gesch. der Juden,"" vii. 206). Bedersi also wrote a large number of treatises on philosophy, several of which are quoted by Moses ibn Ḥabib in the introduction to"
"poem fits the aim of Dtr2, in retroactively accounting for Israel's misfortune, and, indeed, may have been composed at a similar time. Though both Jewish and Christian sources have traditionally attributed the Song to Moses, the conditions presupposed by the poem render the Mosaic authorship of it impossible according to critical commentary. The Exodus and the wilderness wanderings lie in the distant past. The writer's contemporaries may learn of them from their fathers (verse 7). The Israelites are settled in Canaan (verses 13–14); sufficient time has passed for them not only to fall into idolatry (verses 15–19), but to be"
"Nesace Nesace (, ; from Greek , """" 'small island') is one of the more prominent characters featured in Edgar Allan Poe's early epic poem ""Al Aaraaf"", which came out in 1829 in the poetry anthology ""Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems"". Together with ""Tamerlane"", ""Al Aaraaf"" is Poe's most extensive poem. It received mostly negative reviews for its complexity, obscure references, and odd structure. Nesace is the ruler of the ""anchored realm"" that is Al Aaraaf, a Purgatory of sorts set between Heaven and Hell. She receives little to no description within the poem - she is said to"