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Feb 29, 2024 · My zeal is February long. Your world's the sun to me, my love; This monthlong gift from God above. 2.20.23. In this sonnet-style poem, blending a bit of Spenserian and Miltonic styles, the speaker celebrates their soulmate's birth month of February (and actual Leap Day) by treating every day like her birthday.
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The poem uses celestial and astronomical imagery,...
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February put away already winter boots, fur and white coat,...
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This poem I put off writing 'cause I had a skeevy sighting;...
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Nov 9, 2019 · Anonymous, ‘ Mon in the Mone ’. ‘Mon in the Mone’ (i.e. ‘Man in the Moon’) is a medieval poem dating from the early fourteenth century, a good half a century before Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pearl poet, John Gower, and the Gawain poet all arrived on the scene and English poetry really came into its own. Mon in the mone stond and strit;
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Leap Year Poem. Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that has twenty-eight days clear. And twenty-nine in each leap year. This traditional English mnemonic rhyme, of which many variants are commonly used in English-speaking countries, has a long history and was first ...
A hundred years hence. A transcreation of the poem 1400 Sal (The year 1400) from the collection Chitra by Rabindranath Tagore. It was written on the 2nd of Falgun (first month of spring), 1302 (1895-96), of the Bengali calendar. Translated by Kumud Biswas. © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes.
Jul 15, 2001 · in the rustling of your leaves. a hundred years from today. 2 Phalgun 1302 (13 February 1896) From Chitra (1896) Translated by Ketaki Kushari Dyson. To mark the year 1400 of the Bengali calendar, this translation was read out by the translator at an event in 1993 jointly organized by the Nehru Centre of the High Commission of India in London ...
Mutanabbi is rather difficult to understand for everyone so I wouldn't worry too much about that. His poems were often intended to show his own superiority compared to other poets; so it had a lot of tropes, word play, obscure words, and were often personal in nature and required knowledge of the person it was directed to and a lot of contextual knowledge.
November – Sack of Aleppo (1400) during Timur's conquest of Syria. December – Manuel II Palaiologos becomes the only Byzantine Emperor ever to visit England. Date unknown. Timur wins against the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. Timur captures the city of Damascus what is today Syria. Timur's army kills many of the city's ...
