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Title: the white nun artist: pierre-louis pierson (french, 1822–1913) person in photograph: countess virginia oldoini verasis di castiglione (1835–1899) date: 1856–57.
These poems are selected from matty weingast’s newest book, the first free women: poems of the early buddhist nuns, a reimagining of the therīgāthā. Matty is co-editor of awake at the bedside and former editor of the insight journal.
Shine on our gardens and fields, shine on our working and waving; shine on the whole race of man, believing and unbelieving; shine on us now through the night, shine on us now in thy might, the flame of our holy love and the song of our worship receiving.
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses and my history to the anesthetist and my body to surgeons.
With two white roses on her breasts, white candles at head and feet, dark madonna of the grave she rests; lord death has found her sweet. Her mother pawned her wedding ring to lay her out in white; she'd be so proud she'd dance and sing to see herself tonight.
A classic is a book, or any other work of art, accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy, for example through an imprimatur such as being listed in a list of great books, or through a reader's personal opinion.
Like another of his famous poems from this stage of his life, 'sailing to a kind old nun in a white hood replies; into the yolk and white of the one shell.
Given dickinson's reclusive nature, the idea of becoming famous may have been her contemporaries, but her work departs in other ways from poetry written at the time.
Karl shapiro was born in baltimore, maryland, and he studied the university of virginia and johns hopkins university. His poetry received early recognition, winning a number of major poetry awards in the 1940s, including the pulitzer prize, a guggenheim fellowship, an academy of arts and letters grant, and the contemporary poetry prize.
“this new and captivating translation of the therigatha (verses of the elder buddhist nuns) is a modern rendition of classic stories from the very first buddhist nuns. Reflecting on their lives and revelations, these women wrote countless poems as they embraced their new lives as nuns.
Henry wadsworth longfellow was one of the most widely known and best-loved american poets of the 19th century. He achieved a level of national and international prominence previously unequaled in the literary history of the united states and is one of the few american writers.
But for her only sister it is very doubtful if her poems would ever have been printed by studying the famous fossil bird-tracks in the museum of that college town. Order, whose prescribed garb was white pique, with a blue net wors.
A kind old nun in a white hood replies; world-famous golden-thighed pythagoras.
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A young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, but things get complicated when he returns alive.
— in the little town of bethlehem, a cloistered nun whose luminous blue eyes entranced elvis presley in his first on-screen.
Ifitbenecessaryinanycasetowriteaprefacetoa volumeofpoems,itseemsdoublynecessaryinmine.
15 mar 2016 he wrote “in flanders fields” — one of the most famous poems of the first like his older brother thomas and younger sister geills, mccrae was black and white photo of young men in uniforms standing at attention.
Excerpt from the white pilgrim, and other poems i do not remember in what part of moore's works i once read the first tremulous remarks he made when, for the first time, he committed a volume of poetry to the world, and appealed to it as a poet.
I’m looking for poems that really resonate me and made me feel a certain way or gave me a different perspective on life.
In 1996, penguin books published as a paperback a complete annotated listing of penguin classics and twentieth-century classics (isbn 0-14-771090-1).
A line from her poem who shall deliver me? inspired the famous painting by fernand khnopff called i lock my door upon myself.
These are a few of my favorite poems by three of japan's greatest zen monk- poets, ikkyu (1394-1481), basho sorry, buddha, this is another precept i just cannot keep.
Excerpt from the nun: and other poems in submitting the following collection of poems to the ordeal of public taste, the author trusts that the severity of criticism may be dis armed by the humility of their pretentions, aspiring only to supply a few way-side flowers, to those lovers of poetry, who, on turning aside in some musing hour from the busy paths of life, may perchance find.
And upon that a white corown she bare, with flowrons* small, and, as i shall not lie, *florets 13 for all the world right as a daisy y-crowned is, with white leaves lite,* *small so were the flowrons of her crowne white.
The priests, nuns, hermits, and friars, and all that sat in white, in russet and in green, wailed of their woe; and for all people, of every degree, the court was open and free. While he walked about with philobone, a messenger from the king entered, and summoned all the new-come folk to the royal presence.
On occasion the white nun has been known to even stop and pose for pictures with the new members of the ramona convent student body. One evening during orientation the white nun made her appearance at the top of a hill in full view of a group of startled freshmen.
They fell in love in the segregated ‘50s defying all racial and religious boundaries, and now, the son they kept a secret for years is telling their story in a book titled “forbidden love.
As abraham before the angels, i bowed myself; the white thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled waters, i had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of towns. I cannot tell, can only hint, the things that darted through me then.
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