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In this poem, the river appears to be named " Darwent ," giving evidence of its derivation from a Brythonic dialect form similar to the Old Welsh derwenyd ( Modern Welsh derwenydd ), meaning " valley thick with oaks ".
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In the initial stanzas of the poem Asagarth is the capital of Asaland, a section of Asia to the east of the Tana-kvísl or Vana-Kvísl river ( kvísl is " fork "), which Snorri explains is the Tanais, or Don River, flowing into the Black Sea.
* A fictional river mentioned in the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first stanza of the poem describes Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain.
The poem begins with a fanciful description of Kublai Khan's capital Xanadu, which Coleridge places near the river Alph, which passes through caverns before reaching a dark or dead sea.
" He continued by describing the power of the poem: " For none of the things which we have seen – dome, river, chasm, fountain, caves of ice, or floating hair – nor any combination of them holds the secret key to that sense of an incommunicable witchery which pervades the poem.
* In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Dante depicts Limbo as the first circle of Hell, located beyond the river Acheron but before the judgment seat of Minos.
The phrase is taken from a poem by Giosuè Carducci — the subject of which is not Umbria but rather a specific place in it, the source of the Clitunno river.
The author, Fernando Pessoa, wrote a poem that begins: " The Tagus is more beautiful than the river that flows through my village ...."
In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Phlegyas ferries Virgil and Dante across the river Styx, which is portrayed as a marsh where the wrathful and sullen lie.
Just before a break in the text there is a suggestion that a river is being dammed, indicating a burial in a river bed, as in the corresponding Sumerian poem, The Death of Gilgamesh.
* Son of Ares and the Hesperid Erytheia, who bore him " beside the silver-rooted boundless waters of the river Tartessus, in the hollow of a rock ," according to a Strabo's quote from a lost poem of Stesichoros.
In his poem " The Song of Hiawatha ", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow described how Hiawatha " crossed the rushing Esconaba " referring to the river.
The poem places his death by the River Tay, though this is not necessarily a contradiction to other accounts of his death ( which place it by river Almond ).
A long " river poem ", which praises Henry VIII through the voice of a swan as it swims down the Thames from Oxford to Greenwich.
His homesick poem of 1912 evokes the river:
The book also takes its name from the T. S. Eliot poem The Hollow Men, which includes the lines " In this last of meeting places // We grope together // And avoid speech // Gathered on this beach of the tumid river.
The river Alph, running " Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea " is central to the poem Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
According to Burgos: " My childhood was all a poem in the river, and a river in the poem of my first dreams.
The earliest literary reference to a working sawmill comes from a Roman poet, Ausonius who wrote an epic poem about the river Moselle in Germany in the late 4th century AD.
One bid was from a lawyer with no financial backing ; another was from actress Mae West which consisted of nothing more than a poem and promise to divert the river.
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Alfred appears as a character in the twelfth-or thirteenth-century poem The Owl and the Nightingale, where his wisdom and skill with proverbs is praised.
The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex ( British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv ), along with other works.
It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.
The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).
* Constantinople appears as a city of wondrous majesty, beauty, remoteness, and nostalgia in William Butler Yeats ' 1928 poem " Sailing to Byzantium ".
The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.
Caledfwlch appears in several early Welsh works, including the poem Preiddeu Annwfn and the prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, a work associated with the Mabinogion and written perhaps around 1100.
The legend of Der Erlkönig appears to have originated in fairly recent times in Denmark and Goethe based his poem on " Erlkönigs Tochter " (" Erlkönig's Daughter "), a Danish work translated into German by Johann Gottfried Herder.
In the poem Carmen Campidoctoris, Babieca appears as a gift from " a barbarian " to El Cid, so its name could also be derived from " Barbieca ", or " horse of the barbarian ".
Fenrir appears in modern literature in the poem " Om Fenrisulven og Tyr " ( 1819 ) by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger ( collected in Nordens Guder ), the novel Der Fenriswolf by K. H. Strobl, and Til kamp mod dødbideriet ( 1974 ) by E. K. Reich and E. Larsen.
* A short passage from the poem appears in chapter four of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
Like " Jabberwocky ," another poem published in Through the Looking Glass, " Haddocks ’ Eyes " appears to have been revised over the course of many years.
Kubla Khan hears voices of the dead, and refers to a vague " war " that appears to be unreferenced elsewhere in the poem.
The connection between Lewti and the Abyssinian maid makes it possible that the maid was intended as a disguised version of Mary Evans, who appears as a love interest since Coleridge's 1794 poem The Sigh.
Loki appears in both prose and the first six stanzas of the poem Reginsmál.
That poem in turn appears to have been the principal source for the famous Anglo-Saxon poem to which the modern title The Phoenix is given.
In Old Saxon Heliand it appears as and in Old High German poem Muspilli it appears as.
' Amazing Grace ' was not the original title of this hymn: it was originally written as a poem entitled ' Faith's Review and Expectation ' and appears in Book I of the Olney Hymns with the poem's title and ' hymn 41 '.
The metaphor of a pearl appears in the longer Hymn of the Pearl, a poem respected for its high literary quality, and use of layered theological metaphor, found within one of the texts of Gnosticism.
The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560 – 612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony ( ca.
Innocent XII appears as one of the narrators in Robert Browning's long poem " The Ring and the Book " ( 1869 ), based on the true story of the Pope's intervention in a historical murder trial in Rome during his papacy.
In stanza 39 of the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna, and in the Prose Edda, the form ragnarøk ( k ) r appears, røk ( k ) r meaning " twilight.
* 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
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