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Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. " D'ye ken John Peel? " – which translates to "Do you know John Peel?" – is a famous Cumberland hunting song written around 1824 by John Woodcock Graves (1795–1886) in celebration of his friend John Peel (1776–1854), an English fox hunter from the Lake District. The melody is said to be a contrafactum of a ...
Poems, Prayers & Promises is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released on April 6, 1971 by RCA Records. The album was recorded in New York City, and produced by Milton Okun and Susan Ruskin. Poems, Prayers & Promises was Denver's commercial breakthrough, and contains several of his most popular songs, such as ...
The Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star, also known simply as Song, is a poem by John Donne, one of the leading English metaphysical poets.Probably first passed round in manuscript during the final decade of the 16th century, it was not published until the first edition of Donne's collected poems in 1633 - two years after the poet's death. [2]
The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death". "Those Dancing Days Are Gone" and "Before the World Was Made" are both performed by Carla Bruni on the album "No Promises". "Song Of Wandering Aengus" was performed by Donovan, Judy Collins, Chris Thompson and many more.
The Blind Milton ( Thomas Uwins, c. 1817) " When I Consider How My Light is Spent " (also known as " On His Blindness ") is one of the best known of the sonnets of John Milton (1608–1674). The last three lines are particularly well known; they conclude with "They also serve who only stand and wait", which is much quoted though rarely in context.
After the success of the Peter, Paul and Mary version in 1969, Denver recorded the song again for his debut album, Rhymes & Reasons, and it was released as a single in October 1969. Although it is one of Denver's best known songs, his single failed to enter the charts. It was re-recorded for the third and final time in 1973 for John Denver's ...
In Stefan Collini's opinion, "Dover Beach" is a difficult poem to analyze, and some of its passages and metaphors have become so well known that they are hard to see with "fresh eyes". [4] Arnold begins with a naturalistic and detailed nightscape of the beach at Dover in which auditory imagery plays a significant role ("Listen! you hear the ...
Fee-fi-fo-fum. " Fee-fi-fo-fum " is the first line of a historical quatrain (or sometimes couplet) famous for its use in the classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk". The poem, as given in Joseph Jacobs ' 1890 rendition, is as follows: to make my bread. Though the rhyme is tetrametric, it follows no consistent metrical foot; however ...