for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

He is proud of having Segovia for a friend and dedicated a poem to him titled `` The Guitar ''.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

so that, while it usually is easy to recognize a poem by Hardy, it is difficult to date one.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

Snorri Sturluson quoted this old poem in Skáldskaparmál, saying that because of this legend Heimdall is called " Seeker of Freyja's Necklace " ( Skáldskaparmál, section 8 ) and Loki is called " Thief of Brísingamen " ( Skáldskaparmál, section 16 ).

The last verse of the poem is quoted in the musical Cabaret – the character Cliff Bradshaw recites it to Sally Bowles when they first meet.

A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the basis of Ynglinga saga is then quoted that describes Hel's taking of Dyggvi:

* Novelist Jeffrey Archer quoted the poem in the first volume of his A Prison Diary series ' Hell ' which recounted his time inside HMP Belmarsh.

* Tennis player Andre Agassi quoted the poem in his autobiography, Open.

* The German hip-hop band Freundeskreis quoted from his poem " An Anna Blume " in their hit single " ANNA ".

Only the poet of the poem feels that he can recover the vision, and the Preface, like a Coleridge poem that is quoted in it, The Picture, states that visions are unrecoverable.

T. Hall Caine, in 1883 survey of the original critical response to Christabel and Kubla Khan, praised the poem and declared: " It must surely be allowed that the adverse criticism on ' Christabel ' and ' Kubla Khan ' which is here quoted is outside all tolerant treatment, whether of raillery or of banter.

In the poem A Hymn to God the Father, John Donne, married to Anne More, reportedly puns repeatedly: " Son / sun " in the second quoted line, and two compound puns on " Donne / done " and " More / more ".

There is a single complete poem, Fragment 1, the Hymn to Aphrodite, quoted in its entirety as a model of the " polished and exuberant " style of composition by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, with admiration of its consummate artistry:

Victorian National Party leader Peter Ryan was quoted as saying that Bracks had " killed the man from Snowy River ", a reference to the Banjo Paterson poem " The Man from Snowy River ".

The poem is preserved whole in the Codex Regius and Hauksbók manuscripts while parts of it are quoted in the Prose Edda.

542 ), quoted in Plato's dialogue, the Protagoras, and reconstructed here according to a recent interpretation, making it the only lyric poem of Simonides that survives intact:

The following poem was quoted by the ancient scholar Athenaeus in his wide-ranging discourses Scholars at Dinner and it demonstrates some of the characteristics of Ibycean verse:

She was also invoked at the beginning of a lost poem, Rhadine (), that was referred to and briefly quoted by Strabo.

The opening lines are all that are usually quoted, but the rest of the poem contains lines such as " A man who longs to surpass his father ’ s census rating " ( 6 ).

He connects this feeling to William Blake's poem The Tyger, which is quoted piecemeal throughout the entire novel:

The frequently quoted ( and often parodied ) opening lines set the theme and rhythm for the poem:

T. S. Eliot quoted the second line of Nerval's sonnet " El Desdichado " in his poem The Waste Land.

Underground I think is one of the most horrible films that I've seen because it's as if this poem by Radovan Karadžić that I quoted was set to film there.

His statement, sometimes presented as a poem, is well-known, frequently quoted, and is a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy.

For example, significant portions of Inner Sanctum are directly quoted from Emily Brontë poems, while the lyrics to " Tristesses de la lune " are borrowed from the poem of the same name in Charles Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal.

Its original publication included an epigraph which quoted Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem " A Psalm of Life ".

Merlin reciting his poem s, as illustrated in the French book from the 13th century " Merlin ", by Robert de Boron.

In chapter 80 of the 13th century Icelandic saga Egils saga, Egill Skallagrímsson composes a poem in praise of Arinbjörn ( Arinbjarnarkviða ).

Other famous pieces include the Boecis, a 258-line-long poem written entirely in the Limousin dialect of Occitan between the year 1000 and 1030 and inspired by Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy ; the Waldensian La Nobla Leyczon ( dated 1100 ), la Cançó de Santa Fe ( ca 1054 – 1076 ), the Romance of Flamenca ( 13th c .), the Song of the Albigensian Crusade ( 1213 – 1219?

Among the most common forms of poetry through the ages is the sonnet, which by the 13th century was a poem of fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme and logical structure.

Valhalla is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in stanzas of an anonymous 10th century poem commemorating the death of a Eric Bloodaxe known as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna.

# 8r: " King Tyro of Scotland and Fridebrant his son " ( not the name of a singer, but the title of an epic poem, dated to the first half of the 13th century )

It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival ( Percival ) and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.

The first poem has only been preserved in fragments in 13th century Kings ' sagas.

A discussion of authorship or date for the individual parts would be futile, since almost every line or stanza could have been added, altered or removed at will at any time before the poem was written down in the 13th century.

Hlín appears in a poem in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in kennings found in skaldic poetry.

Welsh bardic tradition appears to end in the same 13th century, the Welsh campaigns of Edward I supposedly culminating in the legendary suicide of The Last Bard ( c. 1283 ), as commemorated in the poem The Bards of Wales by the Hungarian poet János Arany in 1857 as a way of encoded resistance to the suppressive politics of his own time.

The poem in its various written forms was lost by the end of the 16th century, but manuscripts from as early as the 13th century were re-discovered during the 18th century.

The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; in the poetry of skalds ; and possibly also in a poem in the Poetic Edda, a book of poetry compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material.

The einherjar are attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, the poem Hákonarmál ( by the 10th century skald Eyvindr skáldaspillir ) as collected in Heimskringla, and a stanza of an anonymous 10th century poem commemorating the death of Eric Bloodaxe known as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna.

Layamon or Laghamon ( ˈlaɣamon ; in American English often modernised as ; ), occasionally written Lawman, was a poet of the early 13th century and author of the Brut, a notable English poem of the 12th century that was the first English language work to discuss the legends of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

In the Nibelungenlied, a Burgundian poem written around the turn of the 13th century, Alberich guards the treasure of the Nibelungen, but is overcome by Siegfried.

The earliest known extant literary work in Malayalam is Ramacharitam, an epic poem written in the late 12th or early 13th century.

Hörgar are attested in the Poetic Edda ; compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; the Prose Edda ; written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, sagas, in the poetry of skalds, the Old English poem Beowulf, and in various place names, often in connection with Germanic deities.