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Song of Songs. The Song of Songs ( Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים, romanized: Shīr ha-Shīrīm ), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh. It is unique within the Hebrew Bible: it ...
The poem is an ode, and its subject is the pursuit of the human soul by God's love - a theme also found in the devotional poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. Moody and Lovett point out that Thompson's use of free and varied line lengths and irregular rhythms reflect the panicked retreat of the soul, while the structured, often recurring refrain suggests the inexorable pursuit as it ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness. Eliot began writing the poem in February 1910, and it was first published in ...
Where Love Is, God Is. " Where Love Is, God Is " (sometimes also translated as " Where Love Is, There God Is Also " or " Martin the Cobbler ") is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The title references the Catholic hymn Ubi Caritas. One English translation of this short story as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole uses the alternate ...
Hávamál ( English: / ˈhɔːvəˌmɔːl / HAW-və-mawl; Old Norse: Hávamál, [ note 1] classical pron. [ˈhɒːwaˌmɒːl], Modern Icelandic pron. [ˈhauːvaˌmauːl̥], ‘Words of Hávi [the High One]’) is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age.
Biblical poetry. The ancient Hebrews identified poetical portions in their sacred texts, as shown by their entitling as "psalms" or as "chants" passages such as Exodus 15:1-19 and Numbers 21:17-20; a song or chant ( shir) is, according to the primary meaning of the term, poetry. The question as to whether the poetical passages of the Old ...
"Song" (Hebrew: שיר also meaning "poem") in noun form appears only here in this book, out of 166 times in the Hebrew Bible (mostly in the Book of Psalms). [16] "Which is Solomon's" ("that concerns Solomon"; Hebrew: אשר לשלמה , ’ă-sher li š-lō-mōh [15] ): can have the interpretation that (1) Solomon is the author; (2) the book ...
Book of Lamentations. The Book of Lamentations ( Hebrew: אֵיכָה, ʾĒḵā, from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. [ 1] In the Hebrew Bible it appears in the Ketuvim ("Writings") as one of the Five Megillot (or "Five Scrolls") alongside the Song of Songs, Book of Ruth ...