Illustration from Kitab al-aghani ( Book of Songs ), 1216-20, by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, a collection of songs by famous musicians and Arab poets.

His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its governor Sayf ad-Dawlah ( to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs ), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn ' Abbad, and elsewhere.

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 ).

Kitab al-Aghani ( Book of Songs ), a collection of poems and songs with the stories of the composers and singers in many volumes from the oldest epoch of Arabic literature down to the 9th cent.

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

In 1597, Dowland published his First Book of Songs in London.

Dowland published two books of songs after the First Book of Songs, in 1600 and 1603, as well as the Lachrymae in 1604.

By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's A Book of Nursery Songs ( 1895 ), folklore was an academic study, full of comments and foot-notes.

Humor columnist Dave Barry frequently refers to the song line as a source of comedic value, particularly in his 1997 book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs.

Rabbi Hiyya the Great said Solomon first wrote Book of Proverbs, then Song of Songs, and afterward Ecclesiastes.

* Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina used Song of Songs as the text setting for his Fourth Book of Motets in Five Voices.

The tiger continues to be a subject in literature ; both Rudyard Kipling, in The Jungle Book, and William Blake, in Songs of Experience, depict the tiger as a menacing and fearful animal.

Byrd's last collection of English songs was Psalms, Songs and Sonnets, published in 1611 ( when Byrd was over 70 ) and dedicated to Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, who later also received the dedication of Thomas Campion's First Book of Songs in 1615.

The game does not appear in literature until late in the 10th century when the author Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani mentioned Qirkat in his 24 volume work Kitab al-Aghani (" Book of Songs ").

In 1998, the band was credited with the song Overtura: Astroantiquity / Attacatastrophy on the CD Songs of the Witchblade: A Soundtrack to the Comic Book, which Bjelland co-produced.

Owning the Book of Songs or the Classic of History was to be punished especially severely.

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 ….

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

* Dave Barry-Dave Barry's Book of Bad 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.

* Heinrich Heine-Buch der Lieder (" Book of Songs "

* Hansard, George Agar ( 1841 ) The Book of Archery: being the complete history and practice of the art, ancient and modern ... London: H. G. Bohn

* Muggleton, Lodowicke Works on the Book of Revelation London 2010 ISBN 978-1-907466-04-5

Elder DD The Book of Esther: Its spiritual teaching London: The Religious Tract Society, 1913

A Collect for 5th November, in Book of Common Prayer published London 1689, referring to the Gunpowder Plot and the arrival of William III of England | William III

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

" ( Book of The Life of Sir William Phips first published anonymously in London in 1697 ) And Mather then included the letter, but, for his own reasons ( surely not brevity, Magnalia is huge ) left out the first, second, and eight sections, which would seem most encouraging to the judges to carry-on with their work.

Proper Terms: An attempt at a rational explanation of the meanings of the Collection of Phrases in " The Book of St Albans ", 1486, entitled " The Compaynys of beestys and fowlys " and similar lists., Transactions of the Philological Society 1907-1910 Part III, pp 1 – 187, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trübner & Co, Ltd, London, 1909.

Crochet Book 4th Series, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1848.

Crochet Book 6th Series, containing D ' Oyleys and Anti-Macassars, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1877.

Crochet Book, 9th Series or Third Winter Book, London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1850.

* Warren, The Court Crochet Doyley Book, London: Ackermann & Co, 1847.

The Queen Victoria | Queen's Christmas tree at Windsor Castle published in the Illustrated London News, 1848, and republished in Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia in December 1850.

* Hesiod, Works and Days Book 1 Works and Days Book 2 Works and Days Book 3 Translated from the Greek by Mr. Cooke ( London, 1728 ).

Book first, together with some account of the life and acts of the Author, of his ancestors, and of his descendants, illustrated by a selection of characteristic anecdotes, as collected by their historian, Mevlānā Shemsu'd-dīn Ahmed el-Eflākī el -' Arifī, translated and the poetry versified by James W. Redhouse, London: 1881.

* Adrian Fisher, The Amazing Book of Mazes, Thames & Hudson, London / Harry N Abrams Inc, New York ( 2006 ) ISBN 978-0-500-51247-0

The seed of the myth of Stuart Jacobite influence on the higher degrees may have been a careless and unsubstantiated remark made by John Noorthouk in the 1784 Book of Constitutions of the Premier Grand Lodge of London.

* Book of Prayer of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews ’ Congregation, London.

* Krista Reese, The Name of This Book is Talking Heads ( London: Proteus Books, 1982 ).

* The Book of the Courtier ( 1561 ), English translation by Thomas Hoby as edited by Walter Raleigh for David Nutt, Publisher, London, 1900.

* London Institute of World Affairs, The Year Book of World Affairs 1957 ( London 1957 ) full text online, comprehensive reference book covering 1956 in diplomacy, international affairs and politics for major nations and regions