Sentences with phrase «the old poems»

I wish I could think of that old poem.

On trial for insulting religion in citing a thousand - year - old poem on his Twitter account, the 42 - year - old performer and composer told a first brief hearing in Istanbul on Thursday that he denied the charge, which can carry an 18 - month sentence.

The oldest poems of the Hebrew people are war poems.

And once you start getting ideas... How did that old poem go?

December 11, 2015 • Hear a deceptive take on the winter blues by way of a versatile choir, a young New York composer and a 150 - year - old poem by Longfellow.

Last updated: 2017/12/07 «No man is an island,» as the old poem goes.

«No man is an island,» as the old poem goes.

«Now, / About what to put in your poem - painting,» John Ashbery suggested, in a neighborly fashion, in an old poem: «Flowers are always nice, particularly delphinium.»

Allen Ruppersberg, The Never Ending Book Part 1 / The Old Poems, 2007, mixed media.

As in the old poem Marilyn Jennings used to quote, Peter is free to bargain with life for a penny, that's his choice; I choose not to.

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Whether reminding us that we are but specks of dust in a big, fat world or the joy of growing old, this collection of poems is a wonderful break from the usual information and communication of daily life.

He recited a Yeats poem in a thick Irish accent, smashed a coffee mug, and then began reading from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a decade - old Internet marketing treatise about the power of communities.

As an eleven - year - old, Orwell had dedicated an admiring poem to the field marshal whose visage the poster depicted.

A poem his father would later read at the 14 - year - old's funeral.

Bringing an «old journal» to the stage, Williams said he intended to read a few poems he'd written over the years.

Stevens was a student of Santayana and titled the poem, «To An Old Philosopher in Rome.»

The Book of Psalms seems to have been the hymn - book of the Temple liturgy — a book, quite literally, of «hymns ancient and modern», since it contains poems of the period of the monarchy (possibly, as some believe, as old as David), and others composed as late as the third century or even (as some suppose) the second century B.C.

According to Origen, for example, the two breasts that the poem's suitor is so eager to grasp represent the Old Testament and the New Testament.

22 - year - old Jefferson Bethke says in the video, reciting a spoken word poem he wrote.

What was that Edgar Allen Poe poem where the old man was killed and hidden under the floorboards?

While the poems themselves may on occasion hint at this equation, the prose, which controls them and our understanding of them, eventually serves to release a secret: loving Beatrice was his way of finding Christ in his «new life» (a phrase that can hardly fail to bring to mind Paul's frequent insistence on our conversion from the old way of being to the new).

The poem begins with a restless longing for freedom, and an image of her digging herself out of an old masonry stronghold that a thousand years had built for her.

What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»

For elementary school children the game is primarily physical, kinetic; but to older children I read my poem «Plaint of the Summer Vampires,» which pretends to be a lament voiced by a mosquito and a deerfly.

But well known to some as the seasoned British poet and satirist, ten years older than Astrue, whose poems will break your heart in one line and chill you to the marrow in the next, and whose books Astrue used to keep on his nightstand.

In embarrassment and perhaps even in humiliation, the God of Jeremiah's poem willfully overrides the old text.

In a poem I said much the same thing when a year or two older.

The Song of Solomon made the canon on the merits of the oldest orthodox view: these poems (which are in reality songs of erotic love) are allegorical of the love of God for the congregation of Judaism.

The poem revolves round the struggle of Yam - Nahar (god of seas and rivers), Baal (god of rain) and Athtar (god of springs, wells, and perhaps irrigation channels) as they each lay claim to the vacant post of viceroy to the kindly old god of heaven called El.

By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.74

As Barish points out in an amusing aside, «In an old movie comedy, an affected matron expressed her appreciation of dinner by declaring that «the fish was simply a poem»» obviously the most rapturous word of approval she could think of.»

The poem hung with my sixteen - year - old self, too, the transcendence of it.

A poem of Rilke's about this paradox recalls «the Angel who appeared / to the wrestlers of the Old Testament: / when the wrestlers» sinews / grew long like metal strings, / he felt them under his fingers / like chords of deep music.»

We have had occasion to refer to the poetry of the Old Testament, for it appears mixed in with the history, and many of the most vivid prophetic utterances are poems.

One is from a poem by C. Day Lewis, in which an old priest of an unspecified religion is teaching the trade to a novice.

In an early poem, «Original Sin: A Short Story,» he asserts that, no matter how far from home (in this case, Omaha) we wander, the Old Adam is still with us, even in Harvard Yard.

In one poem an 85 - year - old man, who has spent his many years beating «black and blue» the land, «warped inside / And given to watching, sullen - eyed, / Love still - born,» now sits alone in a corner before the fire, with nothing left to dream on but the self - delusions of his past.

«When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes» is a poem that any 16 - year - old can understand in a heartbeat.

I'll pretend I'm five years old and memorize all fifty states, the pantheon of Greek gods and a bunch of long, fancy poems.

In school, all the grand old masters of literature are brought out for the children to study and to struggle with, with those dorky Questions for Class Discussion: What rhetorical device does the writer employ when he refers to «poems they tape to the refrigerator door»?

Prayer is like the old ladies who would put their purses outside on a full moon and recite a poem to the moon so it would shine on them for prosperity.

Verlaine was twenty - seven, with a wife and a substantial poetic reputation, when the sixteen - year - old Arthur Rimbaud, the most precocious literary genius ever, wrote to him from the provinces and sent him some poems.

This antinomy the Old Testament never satisfactorily resolved, save in the «poems of the Servant of Yahweh,» and that solution was not accepted.

Alfred Noyes, in his poem «The Torch - Bearers,» describes Galileo showing his new telescope to the senators of Florence; and the old men, wagging their white beards, say to one another,

Rita Rouner's poems and reflections, «A Short While toward the Sun,» on the death of her 19 - year - old son, shows images of the afterlife — very positive ones — emerging at the same time as the mourner - poet herself is stuck «in death,» in numbness and hopelessness.

The Psalms, the old Jewish poems and hymns which were and are a staple prayer diet of many Christians often have expressions not much less expressive of common human emotions.

Without significant dissent scholars have long regarded it not only as the oldest extant poem of any considerable length in the Old Testament, but also as the work of, if not an eye - witness, then one who was nevertheless close to the event and intimately informed about it.

The Old Testament almost completely lacks this mythological interest, one of the few examples being the prologue of the book of Job, and this is very likely an ancient myth which a post-exilic writer adapted to provide the setting for his magnificent poem on the riddle of human destiny.

And at the drop of a cannelloni, any good Val Gardenan will recite a stanza of an old valley poem that tells it all:

I put the printable together and my seven year old daughter cut them all out and we hot glued them onto the poem printable.