On the day of his wife's death he wrote two verses from the Psalms, and the prayer, ' O Lord, God of Mercy, unite me in Heaven with those whom you have permitted me to love on earth.

It is unknown if there was any music accompanying the verses ; it may have simply been chanted by the congregation.

* Love songs: Almost all Alcaeus ' amorous verses, mentioned with disapproval by Quintilian above, have vanished without trace.

His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.

Telgren notes that it has been suggested that verses 25 and 26 have a poetic structure of ABBA.

The first, second, and fourth have each twenty-two verses, the number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet.

Barnes ' Notes on the New Testament comments on these verses saying: " These comprehend the substance of what Moses in the law, and what the prophets have spoken.

Only 56 verses in the canonical Gospels do not have a counterpart in the Diatessaron, mostly the genealogies and the Pericope Adulterae.

They may have been expecting verses similar to the satirical ones Poe had been writing about commanding officers.

Beyond its first verse, which is consistent, it has many historic and extant versions: Since its first publication, different verses have been added and taken away and, even today, different publications include various selections of verses in various orders.

Luke may have originally begun with verses 3: 1-7, a second prologue.

For example, the first ten verses of the Works and Days may have been borrowed from an Orphic hymn to Zeus ( they were recognised as not the work of Hesiod by critics as ancient as Pausanias ).

In spite of this, it seems that “ many poets did not object to and some must have preferred baroque juxtapositions of unlike kennings and neutral or incongruous verbs in their verses ” ( Foote & Wilson ( 1970 ), p. 332 ).

The text of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas consists of several hundred verses, which have been grouped in 189 numbered paragraphs in the English translation most of which are just a few sentences.

There have been several English translations of the original German verses over the years, but all have maintained the original trochaic tetrameter:

Some mosques have Islamic calligraphy and Quranic verses on the walls to assist worshippers in focusing on the beauty of Islam and its holiest book, the Quran, as well as for decoration.

In modern translations of the Bible, the results of textual criticism have led to certain verses, words and phrases being left out or marked as not original.

For technical reasons connected with their publication in three installments ( the publisher of the third and last installment seems to have been unwilling to start it in the middle of a " Century ," or book of 100 verses ), the last fifty-eight quatrains of the seventh " Century " have not survived into any extant edition.

The six stanza version quoted is the original, as written by Newton, but it has also appeared in longer forms where others have added verses or where verses from other hymns from the Olney books have been moved across.

He sings the sixth and fifth verses in that order, and Stowe included another verse not written by Newton that had been passed down orally in African American communities for at least 50 years.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

It has also been contended that the core verses of the book, in general chapters 4 through 22, are surviving records of the prophecies of John the Baptist.

Previous editions had been divided into verses, however, the early versifications generally followed the paragraph structure of the original text.

Erasmus had been unable to find those verses in any Greek manuscript, but one was supplied to him during production of the third edition.

The Book of Hosea has also been used in Qur ' anic exegesis by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, especially in reference to Qur ' anic verses which speak of the backsliding of Israel.

In gratitude for the providential escape of King Charles II from shipwreck, Gostling, who had been of the royal party, put together some verses from the Psalms in the form of an anthem and requested Purcell to set them to music.

Much has been said of Davy as a poet, and John Ayrton Paris somewhat hastily says that his verses " bear the stamp of lofty genius ".

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

Luke's story, though only four verses long, has been a complex source of inspiration, interpretation, and debate for centuries.

Latin versions of both had recently been published in Lyon, and extracts from both are paraphrased ( in the second case almost literally ) in his first two verses, the first of which is appended to this article.

Though western scholars typically date the text at 1500 BCE, Indian scholars maintain that the verses and the history contained in them have been orally transmitted thousands of years before.

The first, Album des vers anciens ( Album of ancient verses ), was a revision of early but beautifully wrought smaller poems, some of which had been published individually before 1900.

When originally used in Olney, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton.

At the funeral Marcela appears, delivering a long speech vindicating herself from the bitter verses written about her by Grisóstomo, claiming her own autonomy and freedom from expectations put on her by Pastoral clichés.

* The Ossian cycle of ancient Celtic poetry supposedly rediscovered and published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson was actually written in the eighteenth century, possibly based on some fragments of earlier verses.

As it is well known that Arabic language is written without vowels, and when Qur ' an reached the non Arabic speakers, people began having different dielects and phonics which was changing the exact meaning of verses in the Qur ' an.

Jerome devoted a very brief notice to Damasus in his De Viris Illustribus, written after Damasus ' death: " he had a fine talent for making verses and published many brief works in heroic metre.

The lyrics of the song are written in four verses and a bridge and sung by Desirée.

The Talmud ( Minachot 30a ) says that the last eight verses of the Torah that discuss the death and burial of Moses could not have been written by Moses, as writing it would have been a lie, and that they were written after his death by Joshua.

His work is in a long tradition of verses written and published about great events and tragedies, and widely circulated among the local population as handbills.

In 1815 – 16, Coleridge added to the poem marginal notes ( still deliberately written in an archaic style ) that gloss the text, ostensibly explaining the meaning of verses.

They remained Muslims, but did not accept any of the verses in the Qur ' an written after the date of the split.

When the New Testament was written, the Old Testament was not divided into chapters and verses, and hence the authors had to provide contextual references:

According to William R. Farmer, it is in many cases easy to see how Mark, if he had access to both Luke and Matthew, could have written the precise verses that he did.

For this occasion verses were written by Huygens, Hooft and Vondel.

It was written as a commentary on the Book of Genesis and comprises uneven sections headed by verses from the first three chapters of that book.

The 1981 Christmas special, " Whoops ", had two verses of lyrics written by Roy Clarke that were performed over the closing credits.

Corinthian vase depicting Perseus, Andromeda ( mythology ) | Andromeda and Ketos ; the names are written in the archaic Greek alphabet. Simonides was popularly accredited with the invention of four letters of the revised alphabet and, as the author of inscriptions, he was the first major poet who composed verses to be read rather than recited.

Simonides has long been known to have written epitaphs for those who died in the Persian Wars and this has resulted in many pithy verses being mis-attributed to him "... as wise saws to Confucius or musical anecdotes to Beecham.

She gave him the paper on which was written the verses of the chapter Ta-Ha.

Patriotic sentiment is notably absent from the text of the original two verses, due to them being written in the spirit of Scandinavism popular at the time ( Norden in general refers to the Nordic countries in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish ).

" Lines written on reading verses of Rear-Admiral W. H. Smyth " 1857