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.

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

His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.

A Gaelic poem laments: It's bad what Malcolm's son has done, dividing us from Alexander ; he causes, like each king's son before, the plunder of stable Alba.

Rather, given the implications of the theory of oral-formulaic composition and oral tradition, the question concerns how the poem is to be understood, and what sorts of interpretations are legitimate.

Another writer influenced by the plot was John Milton, who in 1626 wrote what one commentator has called a " critically vexing poem ", In Quintum Novembris.

The poem ends with Priam's declaration, ' I get down on my knees and do what must be done / And kiss Achilles ' hand, the killer of my son.

The phrase introduces the 1866 poem Hymn to Proserpine, which was Algernon Charles Swinburne's elaboration of what a philosophic pagan might have felt at the triumph of Christianity.

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

The poem according to Coleridge's account, is a fragment of what it should have been, amounting to what he was able to jot down from memory: 54 lines.

The Preface uses water imagery to explain what happens when visions are lost by quoting a passage from his poem The Picture.

Nature, in the poem is not a force of redemption but one of destruction, and the paradise references reinforce what Khan cannot attain.

When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.

" He continued, " We may question without end what it means, but few of us question if the poem is worth the trouble, or whether the meaning is worth the having.

If we restrict ourselves to what is ' given ', appealing to the poem as a ' whole ', we shall fail probably to resolves its various cruxes.

In 1981, Kathleen Wheeler contrasts the Crewe Manuscript note with the Preface: " Contrasting this relatively factual, literal, and dry account of the circumstances surrounding the birth of the poem with the actual published preface, one illustrates what the latter is not: it is not a literal, dry, factual account of this sort, but a highly literary piece of composition, providing the verse with a certain mystique.

During the 1990s, critics continued to praise the poem with many critics placing emphasis on what the Preface adds to the poem.

Though literary detectives have uncovered some of its sources, its remains difficult to say what the poem is about.

Loki greets Eldir ( and the poem itself begins ) with a demand that Eldir tell him what the gods are discussing over their ale inside the hall.

For one example, he expressed this playfulness in what is perhaps his most famous rhyme, a twist on Joyce Kilmer's verse: " I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree ", which drops " billboard " in place of poem and adds, " Indeed, unless the billboards fall / I'll never see a tree at all.

The BBC broadcast a documentary presented by Simon Armitage in which the journey depicted in the poem is traced, utilising what are believed to be the actual locations.

A poem discovered in October 2010, Last letter, describes what happened during the three days leading up to Plath's suicide.

Whilst in the SOE, she met Leo Marks, codes officer of the SOE, who gave her what is now thought of as the definitive World War II poem code, The Life That I Have.