: Verses 14-15 contains a direct quote of a prophecy from 1En. 1: 9.

He appears on the alternative hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest's influential album The Low End Theory on a track called " Verses from the Abstract ".

Verses from the Quran, the official constitution of the country.

Verses from Hákonarmál are then quoted in support, themselves containing references to Valhalla.

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

The Satanic Verses incident is reported in the tafsir and the sira-maghazi literature dating from the first two centuries of Islam, and is reported in the respective tafsīr corpuses transmitted from almost every Qur ' anic commentator of note in the first two centuries of the hijra.

The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace.

The album features guests MF Doom, Ghostface Killah, Butta Verses and Flavor Flav, with production from 9th Wonder, Jake One, Madlib and more.

Here is an example from William Cowper's " Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk " ( 1782 ), composed in anapaestic trimeter:

After his death, one of his poems from the book, " Versos Sencillos " ( Simple Verses ) was adapted to the song, " Guantanamera ", which has become the definitive patriotic song of Cuba.

The group hired double bassist Ron Carter on the track " Verses from the Abstract ".

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Apart from the poem Petra, Burgon's most notable works for which he is remembered today are The Revision Revised which was a critique of the then-new Revised Version of the Bible ( 1881 ), The Last Twelve Verses of Mark, The Traditional Text, and Causes of Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels.

Verses from the Qur ' an are never used for this purpose, and not only because their meanings are said to be somewhat dulled through repetition.

A later instance of this usage appears in the poem The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson from the A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods ( 1885 ) collection.

They appear also in We Have Loved of Yore from Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs of Travel and Other Verses, published in 1896:

Verses about competitors, which may range from insults about their attire to derogatory comments on physical attributes, form part of what Trinidadians term " pekong ", where someone is allowed to insult another for fun.

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* Rumi, Spiritual Verses, The First Book of the Masnavi-ye Ma ' navi, newly translated from the latest Persian edition of M. Este ' lami, with an Introduction on a reader's approach to Rumi's writing, and with explanatory Notes, by Alan Williams, London and New York, Penguin Classics, Penguin, xxxv + 422 pp. 2006 ISBN 0-14-044791-1.

She popularized Mrs. Claus in her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride from the collection Sunshine and other Verses for Children ( 1889 ).

Green Carnation's trend of music has continuously become less and less heavy after every release ; from straight forward death metal, to a gothic metal / doom metal / progressive metal sound, to a melancholic hard rock-sounding form of progressive rock and in 2006, went as far as to releasing an entirely acoustic album Acoustic Verses.

Crewe inherited his father's literary tastes, and published Stray Verses in 1890, besides other miscellaneous literary work, including Gleanings from Béranger ( privately printed in 1889 ).

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Joshua, Chapter 2, Verses 18, 21, and Chapter 6, verse 23: “.. thou shalt bind this line of scarlet in the window which thou didst let us down by ... ... and she bound the scarlet line in the window ... ... And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father ’ s household, and all that she had.

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The Satanic Verses are a small number of apparently pagan verses that were alleged to have been temporarily included in the Qur ' an by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, only to be later removed.

Verses 15 and 16 of his third ode ( 468 BC ), also for Hieron, indicate that he might have composed that work at Syracuse.

Verses 1: 18-25 turn to Mary, the future mother of Jesus, betrothed ( engaged ) to Joseph, but " found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit " before she and Joseph have " come together ".

Aphoristic collections, sometimes known as wisdom literature, have a prominent place in the canons of several ancient societies, such as the Sutra literature of India, the Biblical Ecclesiastes, Islamic Hadith, The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, Hesiod's Works and Days, the Delphic maxims, and Epictetus ' Handbook.

Most influential in the East Asian Buddhist tradition have been Vimśatikāvijñaptimātratāsiddhi, the " Twenty Verses on Representation Only " and the Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā, the " Thirty Verses on Representation-only ".

But Rushdie seems to have assumed that diverse communities and cultures share some degree of common moral ground on the basis of which dialogue can be pieced together, and it is perhaps for this reason that he underestimated the implacable nature of the hostility evoked by The Satanic Verses, even though a major theme of that novel is the dangerous nature of closed, absolutist belief systems.

She collaborated with her sisters Eliza and Maud on Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children, but this does not seem to have been published until 1914.

Both Kartography and her next novel, Broken Verses, have won the Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan.

Mathiesen and Theitic concluded that 18 to 20 of the verses are lore which would be common to the area of rural 17th to 19th century New England and compiled by the hand of someone who would have been born no later that the late 19th century, and that at least six of the verses which are deemed “ The Wiccan Verses ” were compiled and added by a second and later hand.

Chu Ci (), also known as Verses of Chu, Songs of Chu or Songs of the South, is an anthology of Chinese verse traditionally attributed to Qu Yuan and Song Yu from the Warring States Period, though about half of the poems seem to have been composed several centuries later, during the Han Dynasty.

Verses from this book have appeared in numerous publications, and have been quoted by eminent speakers.

In his preface to the printed edition, Dryden explained he had had to adapt the libretto to the changed political circumstances of 1691: " But not to offend the present Times, nor a Government which has hitherto protected me, I have been oblig'd so much to alter the first Design, and take away so many Beauties from the Writing, that it is now no more what it was formerly ..." He also made alterations to suit Purcell's musical needs: " the Numbers of Poetry and Vocal Musick, are sometimes so contrary, that in many places I have been oblig'd to cramp my Verses, and make them rugged to the Reader, that they may be harmonious to the Hearer: Of which I have no Reason to repent me, because these sorts of Entertainments are principally design'd for the Ear and the Eye ; and therefore in Reason my Art on this occasion, ought to be subservient to his.

The only complete work of his which has been preserved is the commentary on the Chrysa Epe ( Golden Verses ) of Pythagoras.

Her third volume of poetry, A Chaplet of Verses ( 1861 ), was published for the benefit of a Catholic Night Refuge for Women and Children that had been founded in 1860 at Providence Row in East London.

Her youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott ( Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly ; Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, a metrical tale based on the first news of discovery of the last surviving mutineer of the H. M. S. Bounty and a generation of British-Tahitian children on Pitcairn Island in 1811 ; and Blanche part of a projected series of ' Narrative poems on the Female Character ,' 1813 ).

Verses 18-25 describe the desolation that will result: " In that day a man will save alive a young cow and two sheep ... in that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines ... will be turned over to thorns and briars " ( verses 21-23 ).

Verses like these are often used by Christians in Trinitarian theology to describe how God is revealed to the world and God's role in salvation.

Verses of popular poets are also used as political slogans by political activists.

The Darkhold contains the Vampiric Verses, which were used to create the world's first vampire, Varnae, near the end of the time of Atlantis.

The sorceress Marie Laveau later used the Vampiric Verses to resurrect Varnae, which apparently negated the Montesi Formula.

Verses of all lengths from two to twelve are known, but the metres most used in hymnody are dodecasyllabic verses of twelve syllables formed of three equal measures ( 4 + 4 + 4 ), heptasyllabic verses of seven syllables formed of two measures ( 4 + 3 or 3 + 4 ), and pentasyllabic verses of five syllables also formed of two measures ( 2 + 3 or 3 + 2 ).