The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the " city lament ", of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.

All but one, the " Rhapsody in Lament for Gentleman who do not Meet their Time " ( 士不遇賦 ) have been lost, and even the surviving example is probably not complete.

* G. Grant, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism

It fell around 1940 BC to the Elamites in the 24th regnal year of Ibbi-Sin, an event commemorated by the Lament for Ur.

He made recordings of smaller groups ( sextets, octets, and nonets ) drawn from his then-15-man orchestra and he composed pieces intended to feature specific instrumentalist, as with " Jeep's Blues " for Johnny Hodges, " Yearning for Love " for Lawrence Brown, " Trumpet in Spades " for Rex Stewart, " Echoes of Harlem " for Cootie Williams and " Clarinet Lament " for Barney Bigard.

If the March was to be but a short Composition, the Ground must be of So many fingers ; for Bars they had no notion of ; if a Gathering, commonly of Such a Number, If a Lament, If a March, & c. according to the Occasion it must Consist of Such a Number.

* Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker

* Qu Yuan writes the poem " Lament for Ying " after the fall of the capital of Chu.

" Lament for Antinoüs ," translation by Stephen Cohn,

The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper | H. J. Draper

* Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías ( Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías 1935 )

* Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems ( 1937 )

Sitchin believes that fallout from nuclear weapons, used during a war between factions of the extraterrestrials, is the " evil wind " described in the Lament for Ur that destroyed Ur around 2000 BC.

McClintock claimed credit for writing the song, though it was likely partially based on other ballads, including An Invitation to Lubberland and The Apple-Knocker's Lament.

He is mentioned by William Dunbar on line 69 of his Lament for the Makeris early in the 16th century.

His sculptures range from large public artworks ( such as Stone Field Sculpture, 1977 in Hartford, CT and Lament for the Children, 1976 in Long Island City, NY ) to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space ( such as 144 Lead Square, 1969 or Twenty-fifth Steel Cardinal, 1974 ).

Fraser provided the vocals for " Lament for Gandalf " in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Logan became famous for a speech, later known as " Logan's Lament ", which he reportedly delivered after the war.

" Magico-Religious Power and Gender in the Karelian Lament ," in Music, Gender, and Culture, vol.

Mr. Scruff's single " Get a Move On ," from his album Keep It Unreal, is structured around samples from " Bird's Lament.

* Tod Linafelt, " Private Poetry and Public Rhetoric: Hearing and Overhearing David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan in 2 Samuel 1 ," in the Journal of Religion 88: 4 ( 2008 ), 497-526.

For instance, Lowell wrote about a number of world historical figures in poems like " Caligula ," " Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts ," and " Lady Raleigh's Lament.

He wrote his first song at 13, and three years later, his first published song, " Lament to Love ," became a hit recording for Harry James.

Clute's first professional publication was a long science-fictional poem entitled " Carcajou Lament ," which appeared in TriQuarterly in 1959.

A current CD reissue contains alternate takes of " Springsville ", " Miles Ahead " ( incorrectly labeled as being one of " Blues for Pablo "), a complete rehearsal take of " The Meaning of the Blues ," and " Lament " ( recorded as a continuous track by Avakian as a contingency plan ) and " I Don't Wanna Be Kissed ( By Anyone But You )".

" A number of folk songs mention " flash girls ," most notably the one attributed by Bull's husband Will Shetterly as being the source for the group's name, " House-husband's Lament ( Rocking the Cradle )," written by Jane Yolen for her son's band Boiled in Lead.

When the unpatched version still features " I Am The Wind " as the ending music, a later patch replaced it with " Admiration Towards the Clan ," the ending song from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.

A guitarist in a short-lived band while he attended UCLA, Turk performed with the group as " Industrial Waist ," which also featured Jack Watt ( on drums ; he was Jackie Watt, a female, back then ), mathematician and teacher Paul Lockhart ( lead vocals, guitar ; Lockhart later became known for writing the internet sensation — and later, book-A Mathematician's Lament ), Rhythm and Hues Studios co-founder Keith Goldfarb ( bass player ), and Alex Melnick ( the band's original drummer ).

* Gwenllian is also the subject of " Gwenllian's Lament ," also called " Gwenllian's Cradlesong ," a song composed by Toby Griffen.

Her songs included " Commie Lies ," " Poor Left Winger ," and " Comrade's Lament.

" The Japanese title is 嘆きの健康優良児, " Nageki no Kenkô Yûryôji ", which has been translated as " Grieving Physically Perfect Girl " or " The Lament of an Otherwise Healthy Girl " and was created by Wanyan Aguda.

The fall of the monastery gave rise to the anonymous Elizabethan ballad, The Walsingham Lament, on what the Norfolk people felt at the loss of their Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

* Darragh reading her poem: Collective Lament for Banishing Animals from History Recorded 25 January 2007 at the University of Maine

* Archive film of Doris Humphrey's Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías performed by Jose Limon in 1946 at Jacob's Pillow

Other songs written by Crosby and Root included " O How Glad to Get Home "; " They Have Sold Me Down the River ( The Negro Father's Lament )" ( 1853 ); Their song " There's Music in the Air " ( 1854 ) became a " hit song ", and was listed in Variety Music Cavalcade as one of the most popular songs of 1854, and was in songbooks until at least the 1930s, becoming a college song at Princeton University.

A Lament in The Book of Lamentations or in the Book of the Psalms ( in the particular Lament / Complaint Psalms of the Tanakh, may be looked at as " a cry of need in a context of crisis when Israel lacks the resources to fend for itself.

Despite the praise the band received for Lament, Resurrection Band called it quits at the end of the tour ; however, it would play an annual live set at the Cornerstone Festival, which had become one of the Christian music industry's pre-eminent events.

Directed by Koji Igarashi, Lament of Innocence was unveiled at the 2003 Los Angeles Electronic Entertainment Expo, from May 14 – 16.

In Nightingale's Lament by Simon Green, a tulpa in the image of John Taylor's client is sent after him at one point, tracking him by a hair the client left on his jacket ; it disappears when the hair is destroyed.

The Song of Gaixia ( 垓下歌 ), translated as The Hegemon's Lament by Burton Watson, was a song composed by Xiang Yu while he was trapped by Liu Bang's forces at Gaixia ( in present-day Lingbi County, Anhui ).

Powerful solo bagpipe versions of the song are used at services of remembrance, funerals, and other occasions ; many in the Commonwealth know the tune simply as " The Lament " which is played at Remembrance Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies to commemorate war dead.

His soliloquy, Lament for Confederation, an indictment of the appropriation of native territory by white colonialism, was performed at the City of Vancouver's celebration of the Canadian centennial in 1967.

* The American acoustic musician Tim O ' Brien set new lyrics to the melody for his song Mick Ryan's Lament, a fictional story about two Irish brothers who emigrate to America, one to die in the Civil War, the second to die at the Battle of Little Big Horn Actually Mick Ryan's Lament was written by Robert Dunlap, but was later recorded by Tim O ' Brien and Ken O ' Malley.

Justin Hayward, the " Nights In White Satin " song's composer and singer for The Moodies, wrote this in his own bed-sit at the age of 19 (" Late Lament " was written by the Moody Blues ' drummer, Graeme Edge ).

The two movements-" Lament ", and " Scherzo "-were premiered at the Farnham Festival, Surrey, England on 12 May 1960 in St Andrew's Parish Church, Farnham, and were repeated on the next day at the Aldershot Festival, the performers being Jenifer Springate and Gillian Feltham ( violins ), Helen Johnstone ( viola ) and Dietrich Küchemann ( cello ).

Harris is the author of Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall ( 1986 ), Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel ( Book of the Year, Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters, 1991 ), Rare Ambition: The Crosbies of Newfoundland ( FACL Book of the Year and APBA Booksellers Choice Award 1993 ), Con Game: The Truth About Canada ’ s Prisons ( 2002 ), and Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery ( 1998 ), which was a national bestseller.

However, both the city of Ying and the entire state of Chu itself experienced doom due to the expansion of the state of Qin, which ended up consolidating China at the expense of the other former independent states: including Qu Yuan's home state — hence the " Lament ".

His painting " The Lament For Icarus " from 1898 won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and was later bought for the Tate Gallery by the Chantrey Trustees.