Although he wrote poetry, also an anthology of verses on the monasteries of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and a genealogical work, his fame rests upon his Book of Songs ( Kitab al-Aghani ).

* The New Songs from the Jade Terrace, a poetry collection from the Six Dynasties period.

While in Ottawa he also collected and published French Canadian Folk Songs, and a volume of his own poetry.

* The Midnight Songs poetry form is from Fourth Century China, consisting of regular five-character lines, with each quatrain formed from a pair of rhymed couplets.

Scholars have noted that Song of Songs shows similarities of various kinds with other Ancient Near Eastern love poetry in general, but particularly some Sumerian erotic passages, and the Ramesside Egyptian love poetry.

They are sometimes also divided into such categories as Sifrei Emet ( ספרי אמת, literally " Books of Truth ") of Psalms, Proverbs and Job ( the Hebrew names of these three books form the Hebrew word for " truth " as an acrostic, and all three books have unique cantillation marks ), the " wisdom books " of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, the " poetry books " of Psalms, Lamentations and Song of Songs, and the " historical books " of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.

In China, an anthology of poems by Qu Yuan and Song Yu, Songs of Chu, defined a new form of poetry that came from the area of Chu during the Warring States period.

He published poetry collections including Canciones ( Songs ) and Romancero Gitano ( Gypsy Ballads, 1928 ), which became his best known book of poetry.

Songs, decimas and poetry were written about this accomplishment.

Indeed, with fear and terror I imagine the time, when those dark iconoclasts come to power: with their raw fists they will batter all marble images of my beloved world of art, they will ruin all those fantastic anecdotes that the poets loved so much, they will chop down my Laurel forests and plant potatoes and, oh !, the herbs chandler will use my Book of Songs to make bags for coffee and snuff for the old women of the future – oh !, I can foresee all this and I feel deeply sorry thinking of this decline threatening my poetry and the old world order-And yet, I freely confess, the same thoughts have a magical appeal upon my soul which I cannot resist ….

Arnold's other principal volumes of poetry were Indian Song of Songs ( 1875 ), Pearls of the Faith ( 1883 ), The Song Celestial ( 1885 ), With Sadi in the Garden ( 1888 ), Tiphar's Wife ( 1892 ) and Adzuma or, The Japanese Wife ( 1893 ).

His poetry collection Fromme Gesänge ( Pious Songs ) appeared in October 1919.

Early Chinese music and poetry was influenced by the Book of Songs, and the Chinese poet and statesman Qu Yuan.

* Pjetër Bogdani, " The Songs of the Ten Sibyls " modern poetry, translated from Albanian

Only one of his poetry anthologies, Yagi no Uta (" Goat Songs ", 1934 ) appeared while he was alive ( in a self-financed edition of two hundred copies ).

His essays and poetry have been anthologized in The Shape of the Century, Health and Society, Appeal to Reason, the Helicon Nine Reader, and Spud Songs.

Among the most respected of the postwar American poets are John Ashbery, the key figure of the surrealistic New York School of poetry, and his celebrated Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1976 ); Elizabeth Bishop and her North & South ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1956 ) and " Geography III " ( National Book Award, 1970 ); Richard Wilbur and his Things of This World, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1957 ; John Berryman and his The Dream Songs, ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1964, National Book Award, 1968 ); A. R.

* Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd ( 1831 ) ( songs / poetry )

But Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics ( 1861 ), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling which could scarcely be surpassed.

His best-known compositions include his Five Elizabethan Songs ( or ' The Elizas ' as he called them ) and the song-cycles Ludlow and Teme and The Western Playland, both settings of poetry by A. E. Housman.

The elder of these two works, the Shi Jing ( also familiarly known, in English, as the Classic of Poetry and as the Book of Songs or transliterated as the Sheh Ching ) is a preserved collection of Classical Chinese poetry from over two millennia ago.

The collection contains both aristocratic poems regarding life at the royal court (" Odes ") and also more rustic poetry and images of natural settings, derived at least to some extent from folk songs (" Songs ").

Songs often used the audio from the videos as samples incorporated into the music, such as with the songs " Timber " ( released as a single in 1998 ) and " Pan Opticon ".

In spite of the lack of explicitly religious content, Song of Songs has often been interpreted as a parable of the relationship of God and Israel, or for Christians, Christ and the Church or Christ and the human soul, as husband and wife.

Songs in the blues style often employ double entendre.

The other major work, a setting of Walt Whitman poems with the title Songs of Farewell, was an even more alarming prospect to Fenby: " the complexity of thinking in so many strands, often all at once ; the problems of orchestral and vocal balance ; the wider area of possible misunderstandings ..." combined to leave Delius and his helper exhausted after each session of work — yet both these works were ready for performance in 1932.

Songs which are traditional, even some without a specific religious context, are often called Christmas carols.

Songs are often very long and lack beat or rhythm in the traditional sense.

Songs or chants sometimes accompanied these gumboot dances, often with themes of longing or loneliness, and sometimes making fun of their bosses in the songs.

" Allmusic's Mark Deming commented that " Newman's humor started getting more acidic with 12 Songs, but here even his most mordant character studies boast a recognizable humanity, which often make his subjects both pitiable and all the more loathsome.

The Springsteen and Clemons cover pose has been imitated often, from Cheap Trick on the album Next Position Please, to Tom and Ray Magliozzi on the cover of the Car Talk compilation Born Not to Run: More Disrespectful Car Songs, to Kevin & Kell on a Sunday strip entitled " Born to Migrate " featuring Kevin Dewclaw as Bruce with a carrot and Kell Dewclaw as Clarence with a pile of bones, to Bert and the Cookie Monster on the cover of the Sesame Street album Born to Add.

Indeed, Against Apion, the writing of Josephus in 95 CE, treated the text of the Hebrew Bible as a closed canon to which "... no one has ventured either to add, or to remove, or to alter a syllable ..." However, we know that for a long time following this date that the divine inspiration of Esther, the Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes was often under scrutiny.

Songs such as " Rhythm Is Our Business ", " I'm Nuts about Screwy Music ", " I Want the Waiter ( With the Water )", and " Four or Five Times " displayed a playful sense of swing, often through clever arrangements by trumpeter Sy Oliver and bizarre lyrics.

Instrumental pieces in popular music often have a descriptive title which suggests that they could be categorized as program music, and several instrumental albums are completely devoted to some programmatic idea ( for example, China by Vangelis or The Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield ).

Songs and spectacles were often used in plays to enhance participation.

Songs are often related to other songs on the same album by a common theme.

Songs were often sung by women at work parties such as the sedenka ( often attended by young men and women in search of partners to court ), betrothal ceremonies, and just for fun.

Songs are often repeated in order.

The Classic of Poetry (), translated variously as the Book of Songs, the Book of Odes, and often known simply as its original name the Odes or Poetry (), is the earliest existing collection of Chinese poems and songs.

Songs are often in different languages depending on the industry, for example in Hindi or Tamil.

Songs in the early days were often contrafacta — Russian folk tunes with translated or new lyrics in Hebrew.

Songs based in the Russian or klezmer traditions normally use the harmonic minor ( that is, with an elevated seventh ), while songs in the New Hebrew style use natural minor, often with a diminished second leading to the tonic.

Songs at the peak of their popularity at the time of the November / December chart-year cutoff many times end up ranked on the following year's chart as well, as their cumulative points are split between the two chart-years, but often are ranked lower than they would have been had the peak occurred in a single year.

Songs became more complex and sophisticated in their melodic and harmonic vocabulary and, in addition to their continuing use in the parlour, were also often sung in public recitals by professional singers.

Songs often include music videos when played, although only some songs contain dedicated videos.