Wine: `` Then you were typing poems this afternoon ''??

The `` orphaned poems '' mentioned in the letter to Meynell comprised a group of five sonnets, which were published in the 1913 edition of Thompson's works under the heading `` Ad Amicam '', plus certain other completed pieces and rough drafts gathered together in one of the familiar exercise books.

The poems which were addressed to her, while they are far more restrained than those of `` Love In Dian's Lap '', show no great technical advance over those of the `` Narrow Vessel '' group and are, if anything, somewhat more labored.

They were poems in a strange language, of which he could barely touch a meaning -- enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there.

Hardy obviously felt that these poems were peculiarly personal and private ; ;

Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

His poems were highly regarded in his day, but are now mostly forgotten.

The poems were put to music, but the musical signs are no longer readable.

At this time, Homer's poems were used as textbooks for the study of Greek.

Crowne have proposed the idea that the poem was passed down from reciter to reciter under the theory of oral-formulaic composition, which hypothesises that epic poems were ( at least to some extent ) improvised by whoever was reciting them.

While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.

" Therefore, Pasternak's Christian-themed poems were, " a form of protest.

Catullus's poems were widely appreciated by other poets.

Of the 90 poems he published, half were written during these years.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Thomas once confided that the poems which had most influenced him were Mother Goose rhymes which his parents taught him when he was a child:

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes and before I could read them for myself I had come to love the words of them.

The compositions were re-workings of famous Poe poems such as " The Bells ", but which reflected a new, positive outlook.

With the exception of Emily's Gondal poems and Anne's lists of Gondal's characters and place-names, their writings on Gondal were not preserved.

In ancient Indian vedic society, the law or Dharma, as followed by Hindus was interpreted by use of " Manu Smrti "-a set of poems which defined sin and the remedies.

; Music set to Rumi's poems

The work was set aside until 1815 when Coleridge compiled manuscripts of his poems for a collection titled Sibylline Leaves.

It has a barbaric and oriental magnificence that asserts itself with a happy power and authenticity too often absent from visionary poems set within the Christian tradition.

The relationship between the two forms is most obvious in the composers who concentrated on sacred music, especially Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose " motets " setting texts from the Canticum Canticorum, the biblical " Song of Solomon ," are among the most lush and madrigal-like of Palestrina's compositions, while his " madrigals " that set poems of Petrarch in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary would not be out of place in church.

However, both Scotland and Ireland shared a common Gaelic culture during the period in which the poems are set, and some Fenian literature common in both countries was composed in Scotland.

He published many other poems over the next ten years, including the popular The Lady of the Lake, printed in 1810 and set in the Trossachs.

In early 2011, Tom Waits completed a set of 23 poems entitled Seeds on Hard Ground, which were inspired by Michael O ' Brien's portraits of the homeless in his upcoming book, Hard Ground, which will include the poems alongside the portraits.

Ralph Vaughan Williams set to music two of Barnes ' poems, " In the Spring ", and ' My Orcha'd in Lindèn Lea ', in the " Common English " version (" Linden Lea ").

The dark poems, set in a sombre world of violence, were coolly received by the critics, and he was discouraged from publishing more for a number of years.

A set of four short lyric poems ( shi 詩 ) entitled " Lyric Poems on Four Sorrows " ( 四愁詩 ), is also included with Zhang's preface.

A diverse set of folk songs, poems and tales illustrate her as an ideal ruler, a holy woman onto whom certain attributes of pagan deities and Christian saints were sometimes projected.

During November, however, he set five of Mathilde's poems to music known today as the " Wesendonck Lieder ".

Shortly thereafter Leo had Theodore's poems removed from the Chalke Gate and replaced by a new set of " iconoclastic " epigrams.

The best-known of the classical Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's set of six symphonic poems Má vlast (" My Motherland ") is called Vltava ( or The Moldau ), and is a musical depiction of the river's course through Bohemia.

St. John also wrote four treatises on mystical theology, two treatises concerning the two poems above, which set out to explain the true meaning of the poems verse by verse and even word by word.

Byrd set three of the songs from Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, as well as poems by other members of the Sidney circle, and also included two elegies on Sidney's death in the Battle of Zutphen in 1586.

In 1954 the English composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems in a work for speaker and orchestra entitled Practical Cats, which was recorded soon after, with the actor Robert Donat as the speaker.

* Settings of Essex's poems " Change thy minde " ( set anonymously ) and " To plead my faith " ( set by Daniel Bacheler ) are published in A Musicall Banquet ( 1610 ), a collection of songs edited by Robert Dowland.

The fifty poems that were published by Albert Giraud ( born Emile Albert Kayenbergh ) as Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques in 1884 quickly attracted composers to set them to music, especially after they were translated, somewhat freely, into German ( 1892 ) by the poet and dramatist Otto Erich Hartleben.

The bullet-point that follows lists early 20th-century musical settings chronologically and notes how many poems were set by each composer ( all, except Prohaska's, are in the Hartleben translations ) and for which instruments.