Cuthbert's letter also relates a five-line poem in the vernacular that Bede composed on his deathbed, known as " Bede's Death Song ".

Cuthbert's letter on Bede's death, the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae, moreover, commonly is understood to indicate that Bede also composed a five line vernacular poem known to modern scholars as Bede ’ s Death Song

The main themes of the book are introduced in the opening poem ( the " Song of Hannah "): ( 1 ), the sovereignty of Yahweh, God of Israel ; ( 2 ), the reversal of human fortunes ; and ( 3 ), kingship.

T. S. Eliot's first professionally published poem, " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ," was first published by Poetry.

In the Epic poetry | epic poem Nibelungenlied ( Song of the Nibelungs ), Siegfried is famously stabbed in the back by Hagen ( legend ) | Hagen.

Gimbel and Charles Fox reworked the poem and the phrase into the song " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", recorded by Roberta Flack ( and later covered by The Fugees ).

* Roland's sword in early 12th century French poem Song of Roland, was named Durendal.

One of the earliest coinage of jianghu was by a dejected poet Fan Zhongyan ( 989 — 1052 ) in the Song Dynasty in his poem Yueyang Lou Ji ( 岳阳楼记 ), in which the context of jianghu was set out as distant to the courts and temples, meaning a world in its own right.

The word katana was used in ancient Japan and is still used today, whereas the old usage of the word nihontō is found in the poem 日本刀歌, the Song of Nihontō, by the Song Dynasty poet Ouyang Xiu.

The importance of the longbow in English culture can be seen both in the legends of Robin Hood, where he was increasingly depicted as a master archer, and also in the " Song of the Bow ", a poem from The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Another poem of Tung-shan Liang-chieh on these and related themes, " The Song of the Jewel Mirror Awareness ", is also chanted in Sōtō temples daily.

* John Donne pointed to the humanoid shape of the mandrake root in his poem Song ( Go And Catch A Falling Star ).

Other famous pieces include the Boecis, a 258-line-long poem written entirely in the Limousin dialect of Occitan between the year 1000 and 1030 and inspired by Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy ; the Waldensian La Nobla Leyczon ( dated 1100 ), la Cançó de Santa Fe ( ca 1054 – 1076 ), the Romance of Flamenca ( 13th c .), the Song of the Albigensian Crusade ( 1213 – 1219?

** " Mowgli's Song That He Sang at the Council Rock When He Danced on Shere Khan's Hide " ( poem )

** " Shiv and the Grasshopper ( The Song That Toomai's Mother Sang to the Baby )" ( poem )

** " A Song of Kabir " ( poem )

** " Mowgli's Song Against People " ( poem )

** " A Ripple Song " ( poem )

** " The Song of the Little Hunter " ( poem )

** " Chil's Song " ( poem )

In the biblical poem Song of Solomon, the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices.

The protagonists of Song of Songs are a woman ( identified in one verse as " the Shulamite ") and a man, and the poem suggests movement from courtship to consummation.

* Rudyard Kipling: A Smuggler's Song ( 1906 ) – this poem appears in "' Hal o ' the Draft ", one of the stories in Puck of Pook's Hill

Much of the idea of the poem, including the flag imagery and some of the wording, is derived from an earlier song by Key, also set to the tune of The Anacreontic Song.

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow based on the Nanabozho stories.

Rider reportedly was responsible for naming Hiawatha, taking the young Indian's name from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha.

Hiawatha is named after a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called The Song of Hiawatha.

In the poem is legendary Onondaga and Mohawk Indian leader Hiawatha.

" The author Henry W. Longfellow mentions Osseo in one of his Native American legends contained in his poem " The Song of Hiawatha ".

Although he never visited the site, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to write of the area in the poem, " Song of Hiawatha ".

The editor wrote about Burnt Bridge Creek and called it " Minnehaha, laughing water ", from Longfellow's poem, " Hiawatha ".

In the poem Hiawatha, " the gentle Chibiabos " is Hiawatha's close friend.

* Frederick Delius – Hiawatha ( tone poem )

He was also the hero of Longfellow's poem, " Hiawatha ".

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855, which referred to Minnesota and landmarks of the area such as Minnehaha Falls.

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring an Indian hero.

Because of the poem, however, " Hiawatha " became the namesake for towns, schools and a telephone company in the western Great Lakes region, where no Iroquois nations historically resided.

Much of the scholarship on The Song of Hiawatha in the twentieth century, dating to the 1920s, has concentrated on its lack of fidelity to Ojibwe ethnography and literary genre rather than the poem as a literary work in its own right.

Thompson found close parallels in plot between the poem and its sources, with the major exception that Longfellow took legends told about multiple characters and substituted the character " Hiawatha " as the protagonist of them all.

Pocahontas: or the Gentle Savage was a comic extravaganza which included extracts from an imaginary Viking poem, " burlesquing the recent parodies, good, bad, and indifferent, on The Song of Hiawatha.

Lydia Sigourney was inspired by The Song of Hiawatha to write a similar epic poem on Pocahontas, though she never completed it.

One of the first to tackle the poem was Emile Karst, whose cantata Hiawatha ( 1858 ) freely adapted and arranged texts of the poem.

Longfellow's poem was the basis for a cantata trilogy, The Song of Hiawatha ( 1898 – 1900 ), by the African-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

The next popular tune, originally titled " Hiawatha ( A Summer Idyl )", was not inspired by the poem.