| 单词 | quatrain |
| 例句 | Which is why the epigraph of this book is the quatrain from the famous Christmas carol. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought in the first quatrain is complex. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z Carla, it turns out, is more interested in “a muscular Argentine” than quatrains. ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z He compares some of the quatrains to “screaming tabloid headlines” and “prophetic tweets.” Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z On “Throw It Away,” she distills the relationship’s collapse into an incredible little quatrain: “We reached a ceiling/I had a feeling/From the beginning/Must be the ending.” Adele and Summer Walker: Our Season of Romantic Discontent 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The choice of linked quatrains thickens the plot. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z His stanza form of choice is often the quatrain, rhyming a/b/c/b or a/b/a/b. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z Maybe the way to look at it is as a quatrain with three long lines followed by a short one. Poster poems: Sapphics 2010-07-02T09:32:00Z He intoned his songs with serene gravity, revealing once again how carefully chiseled every one of his quatrains is. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Finally, the beast emerges from its tidy cage of quatrains, to be spotted "cresting the gable/ of someone's roof" – only now it becomes a mere "graven image" without the poet's voice to give it life. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z In “Company,” she uncannily channels what could be a lost quatrain from W.H. Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “Global Weirdness” is not written in demonic quatrains, but it is 500 times scarier than Nostradamus. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z The indisputable highlights are two colorful panels showing the same quatrain, with slight variations in the rendering of the letters, executed and signed by Mir Imad in the early 17th century. Persian calligraphy takes flight In the song's final quatrain, Bethsabe's summary recognition of her "beauty's fire" certainly has a regal, imperious air. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z The quatrain goes on to establish its dialectic, a moral/artistic tension between caution and impulsiveness which underlies the whole ghazal: "I always run like the dickens when crossing the road." Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z Under layers of white makeup, the Berliner Ensemble performs the quatrains and couplets. Theater Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z I've sometimes felt that the "Parting" quatrain spoilt a perfect lyric: it's too forthright, after the earlier subtleties, and the implied gender polarisation seems simplistic. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z The illustrations accompanying the "Chansons Bas" are a particular delight, as is these quatrains' reminder of the workaday side of Mallarmé's inspiration. The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Peter Manson - review 2012-06-15T21:55:09Z While written in English poetry's favourite traditional structure, quatrains, "Jasmine" begins impressionistically, almost synaesthetically, with an odour that merges into cinematic images. Poem of the week: Jasmine by John Eppel 2010-07-12T13:28:00Z A typical quatrain: Wailings & tears & great howlings & screams At Bayonne & Foix & near to Narbonne: O what dread changes & calamities Before Mars has completed several rounds. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z The Arabic of “Frozen” is frozen in time, as “localized” to contemporary Middle Eastern youth culture as Latin quatrains in French rap. Translating 'Frozen' Into Arabic 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The name Paternò — referring to the town in Sicily — and a directive to “flee this horrific pest” appear in the same quatrain. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z Another excellent variant of the paperback game involves obtaining a poetry anthology and reading, say, the first three lines of a rhyming quatrain out loud. Down to the Sea Again, Impersonating Writers 2011-07-01T16:12:05Z Here is the first quatrain of that poem: Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z As poetry Nostradamus’s quatrains are mostly artless and dead on arrival, though occasionally a sunbeam will shoot through the foliage. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z After finishing the opening quatrain, he declaimed the names of the victims of the Charleston shooting, the band replying each time with a relieved organ flourish. All the Best Shows, of What the Critics Have Seen 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The next quatrain calls on an unexpected addressee. Poem of the week: A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham 2011-02-23T10:44:17Z Miraculously, Dawn arrived at this family gathering with valentines for each of us: heavy stock cards on which she’d painted pastel animals and written sweet quatrains. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z He delivers his verses in tight, mostly rhyming quatrains and quintets that march down the page like the work of Frederick Seidel or Mr. Muldoon himself. Books of The Times: ‘Alien vs. Predator,’ a Book of Poetry by Michael Robbins 2012-05-23T21:30:10Z The poem bears in its four unsturdy quatrains the kind of uncertainty that might face a man who knows whom he wants to marry, but not what marriage may entail: “I am afraid,” he writes. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The verse is written in an informal Sapphic quatrain, its stanzas sometimes impressionistic 'scenes' or vivid jottings. Poem of the week 2010-05-10T10:24:00Z He loves to violate the fourth rhyme in a quatrain, then rhyme the next couplet with the offending word. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z There is something devastatingly mischievous about the subverted authority of the fictional epigraph, just as there is something wonderfully mischievous about Fitzgerald's quatrain itself. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z A sassy flute tauntingly hovers over things, and Musgraves’s first verse begins with a vicious quatrain that captures the fracture in a nutshell: The Kacey Musgraves Divorce Hour 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Seshadri is fluent in an unusually wide range of forms — he ranges here from rhymed quatrains to fat blocks of prose — and his voice is typically chatty, probing, importuning, self-mocking. A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Cohen favors an Audenesque quatrain with none of the puckish genius Auden used to refashion the form. Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z If anything, its memorable imagery and range of registers, coupled with a formal restlessness that encompasses everything from loose quatrains to tumbling prose poems, make it an unusually animated and refreshing read. Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review 2013-03-22T19:00:01Z In “America,” he added, “I had this wonderful quatrain that went: ‘I like to be in America/OK by me in America/Everything free in America/For a small fee in America.’ Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z That, more than the quatrains of Omar Khayyam or the gorgeous rugs of Kerman, is the soft power that matters to Tehran. Salman Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z He composed whole stand-alone quatrains that were later thrown out: The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Knights battled, jugglers juggled and sang, visitors sampled mead or rhyming quatrains. Taking the A Train to the Middle Ages 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Reminds me of a Dorothy Parker quatrain, which as I recall goes something like this: I love to drink martinis, One or two at most. Yale Student Found Not Guilty in Rape Trial 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z A fixed form of nineteen lines: five tercets, a concluding quatrain, and a rhyme scheme tight enough to keep any feeling from spilling over the borders. Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Losing 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z One story relates that a poet, possibly Edmund Spenser, presented this quatrain to Elizabeth I, when he failed to receive a £100 payment he was promised - she got the message and paid him immediately. Is it possible to be a millionaire poet? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But sometimes we find the octave of the sonnet consisting, as in the Shakespearean form, of two quatrains, and the sestet approaching closely to the Petrarchan idea. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Says the quatrain of the forecastle: "Rainbow in the morning, Sailors take warning; Rainbow at night, Is the sailor's delight." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The style of the work was entirely novel; and the stanza in which it was written—the decasyllabic quatrain with alternate rhymes—had never been so effectively handled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z A circle of cultivated Spaniards is one of the most charming groups on earth, but Spaniards altogether innocent of formal education may be walking anthologies of old ballads, spicy quatrains, riddles, proverbs, fables, epigrams. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Wister proposed the baby's health, and I recited a quatrain which came to me early this morning. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z This form consists merely of the quatrains, rhyming a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, e, f, e, f, followed by a rhymed couplet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z No wonder people were wearied to death, or within an inch of it, by reading this lugubrious quatrain, for the hundredth time. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Often when a quatrain is repeated in the same text, variations may be found in it. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The first edition had contained only seventy-five quatrains. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Then drinking and singing a quatrain turn and turn about, he went to sleep. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Many critics deny that three quatrains followed by a couplet constitute a true sonnet, and Professor Brander Matthews always calls this form not a sonnet but a "fourteener." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Then, in the tray, your daintier stuff is hid: The tender quatrain where your moral sings— Be careful, though, lest as you close the lid You crush and crumple all these fragile things. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z It may be observed that the quatrains in this section are not so closely rendered from recognisable originals as the other quatrains composing FitzGerald's poem. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z He writes in little quatrains, and has scarce any of the iteration and conceits to which his people are given. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Clairon he consecrated his muse, and every day chanted her praises in couplet or in quatrain, wherein he vowed that Venus and Vesta were unworthy to be compared with this adorable, this divine young actress. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z A ballade is no more a ballad than a sonnet is a quatrain. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z They put the case for Denis in a nutshell; and the quatrains before the quotation were hardly less poignant in their appeal, though Denis's "new mistress" was not war but wealth. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z C. L. N. A. I. J. The Persian preface states that, after his death, Omar appeared to his mother in a dream, and repeated this quatrain to her. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z In “The Miller’s Daughter,” one of the most homely and charming poems ever penned by the Poet Laureate, occurs a quatrain, spoken by an old gentleman addressing his faithful spouse:— A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z And so quatrain preceded glass and chorus followed quatrain until every member of the eulogistic company had sung his or her song. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z These, however, are seldom sustained for more than a single quatrain. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Yes, I think the quatrain that you wrote in Col. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Here is the quatrain: �What man here below has not sinned, can you say? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Another little gem of Victor Hugo’s is the following quatrain, which, though it may have had at first some particular occasion, is capable of the most general application. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z We fancy the genial colonel will start off with some such quatrain as this: Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z Towards the end of the month we find him trying, not very successfully, to invent a new sonnet form, but soon reverting to his accustomed Shakespearean type of three quatrains closed by a couplet. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Doubtless I have too great fondness for great lines—your great lines—and they occur less frequently in your blank verse than in your rhyme—most frequently in your quatrains, those of sonnets included. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z But let us come to the complete thought of the poet which deduces itself so energetically and with so much unity through the fantasy or the mysticism of his quatrains. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z And here was the last half of that quatrain, obscurely inscribed—as if the embroiderer had hardly understood their full significance—on the handiwork of Adela Reefe. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z This step he recorded, as his habit was, in a double quatrain of elegiacs, a metre to which he more than once resorted to summarise the turning-points of his career. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The former is far the richer in contents, and in the light of the tragedy to come its two first quatrains now seem to thrill with prophetic meaning. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z A rough translation: In an official statement the Fed explained that the quatrain was inspired by a surprising request from a German bank, the Bayerische Landesbank, for a $500 million loan. The Fed Rescue Program Too Bizarre to Be True: Michael Lewis 2011-04-12T23:04:29Z L. N. A. I. This quatrain is also ascribed to the celebrated philosopher Avicenna. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z But it has the character of a quatrain, and seems therefore more properly to belong to the former. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Another quatrain records this: I come from Heaven, am an immortal ray Of God; O joy! and back to God shall go. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z On one of these occasions the following quatrain was put by a country curate under the pillow of a very aged president, who married a young woman named La Montagne. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z I created a pantoum — a series of quatrains with certain lines repeated in a pattern — using language culled from these bridge “pages.” The Bridge, My Muse 2011-03-13T01:56:58Z Immediately Khayyam, irritated, improvised this impious quatrain, addressed to the All-Powerful: �Thou hast broken my pitcher of wine, my God! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Certain peculiarities, however, in the structure of the strophe render it probable that it was originally a quatrain followed by a ripresa of the same length. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is certainly a halting quatrain, quite unworthy the immortality of marble. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Here we find little vignettes, much smaller than those in the Malermi Bible, with a headline over them and a quatrain in italics beneath, the whole enclosed in an ornamental frame. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z With that famous ring, from which he had afterwards the mortification to discover that his own portrait had been banished to make room for that of Saint-Lambert, he sent her this elegant quatrain. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z The quatrain in the note to quatrain No. 90 is translated from C. 218. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z His power over the heroic couplet or quatrain is shown in his fable, Mother Hubbard’s Tale, and in his curious verse memoir, Colin Clout; both of which are medleys of satire and flattery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The tenth quatrain read thus in the Third Edition: Well, let it take them! Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Translated into English Verse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.917Z This classic quatrain was delivered after repeated efforts, and I bowed my approval as the silly sing-song came to an end. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Ten years later FitzGerald revised his first version and added many new quatrains, but the text as we have it today was the fifth which he gave to the public. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z The inspiration for this quatrain comes from O. 68. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z This and what follows in the introductory quatrain show how early Celtic doctrines correspond to or else were originated by those of the Christians. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Why, a year ago," grumbled Perner, "my quatrains used to be legal tender anywhere on Park Row for a dollar. The Bread Line A Story of a Paper If you put a hundred ideas into a quatrain you will get less money for it than you would for a two-volume epic in which you have possibly only half an idea. The Inventions of the Idiot Unlike Tennyson, FitzGerald appeared to improve everything he labored over, with the single exception of the first quatrain of the Rub�'iy�t. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z The inspiration for this quatrain is to be found in C. 266. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z And he wrote these quatrains in Ogam, and then bade them farewell. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The inside of the circular contained ten headings, and each heading had four lines of detailed information, looking like quatrains of poetry. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 If the receiving-teller were a man fit for the position and a poet brought in a quatrain with five lines in it, he could detect it at once and hand it back. The Inventions of the Idiot What I mean is that I see no reason why a poet's errors should be pardoned because his quatrains are above criticism. With Edge Tools C. 489 is a mystic and doctrinal quatrain containing the same injunction. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z This never seemed to be quite true of Tennyson, whose dark oriental look would rather have suggested the authorship of the Arab legend of “Antar” or of the quatrains of Omar Khayyám. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It was Sir William Watson's famous quatrain, An Epitaph, that affected him most keenly, because it invited emphasis on the one word that always brought him springing to his feet. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road We could say to the magazines, 'Gentlemen, quatrains are not quatraining as hard as they were. The Inventions of the Idiot The staple metre is the quatrain, but detached pieces in other measures occur. A Short History of French Literature The original of this quatrain is O. 89. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The refrain, moreover, is closely allied to those couplets or quatrains composed spontaneously at the dance or other merry-making of the people. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The rustic quatrain, quoted in the outset of this disquisition, mentions the Corncrake, as associated with the Swallow in this winter-sleep,—"in the hollow." The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Suppose every writer of a quatrain in America should send his whole product to us. The Inventions of the Idiot The fifth act is very short, containing a recital by Proculeius of the Queen's death, and a choric lament in quatrains. A Short History of French Literature It is not easy to deal with this and the three following quatrains separately, the sentiments of all four being closely interchangeable and largely identical. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z In earlier days this power to make a quatrain off-hand seems to have been universal among the peasants of Europe. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 There must be four lines in each quatrain of two couplets. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde Or perhaps we'd receive a notice from a Southern publisher to this effect: 'Have drawn on you at sight for eight quatrains and a triolet.' The Inventions of the Idiot Delport hurls himself upon Frank, who stands there, squaring up, and still singing the nonsensical—and to Boer susceptibilities offensive—quatrain. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion The quatrain in the note to quatrain No. 18 is translated from C. 419. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z This extraordinary vanity was lampooned on all sides, and especially in a quatrain, which I forbear to quote even in French.—Editor. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The sense may be complete in the couplet, but must be complete in the quatrain. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde In fact, I have myself completely routed countless unpoetic rivals by exploding in their ranks burning quatrains to the fair objects of our affections. The Inventions of the Idiot By the rhyme-scheme of the quatrain, the terminal rhyme-emphasis of the stanza is reduced, the second and third verses being most closely braced by the rhyme. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History No. 45 is a quatrain in a like predicament, and it may be for this reason that FitzGerald dropped it out of all subsequent editions. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The original Tory quatrain referred to the smuggling of muskets into the country by the patriots. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 The commonest stanza is a quatrain consisting of four heptasyllabic lines with the rhyme at the end of the couplet. Ancient Irish Poetry Above are rhymed quatrains, either legendary or scriptural; and below and around are sentences drawn from the prophets or the psalms. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries This new form is divided, not into octave and sestet, but into three quatrains, with alternate rime, and a couplet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History This version of the opening quatrain is gradually evolved through the four editions. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z His creed is summed up in the quatrain. Silver Links It was Manannan, the son of Ler, who sang these quatrains to him. Ancient Irish Poetry A petit Paris it was called in a vaunting quatrain by some minstrel of yore. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) Give me your opinion on my quatrain, or I vow we shall have a quarrel of it.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The main inspiration of this quatrain is found in C. 387. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z But times have changed and like everything else the quatrain has grown respectable. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Religious poetry ranges from single quatrains to lengthy compositions dealing with all the varied aspects of religious life. Ancient Irish Poetry Mr. Stoddard's brief essay, composed at a meeting of the Blue Pencil Club, is excellent, and his concluding quatrain regular and melodious. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The whole duty of man in a quatrain! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The sentiment of this quatrain is very recurrent. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z From the disuse and misuse into which it had fallen the modern magazine editor rescued it and by creating a market revived the art of quatrain making. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Then she sang these quatrains to Bran while all the host were listening. Ancient Irish Poetry In the opening stanza we behold first a quatrain, then a quadruple rhyme. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 I sent my young adorer back, in return for her quatrain, Millevoye's lines on the withered leaf—a far more appropriate image of my peregrinations. Records of Later Life Two are quatrains reflecting the whole spirit of the original poem. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The average quatrain is in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers They are divided into quatrains, whose four verses rhyme among themselves. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century In the third a quatrain is followed by an arrangement in which two rhyming lines enclose a couplet, while in the final stanza the couplet again reigns supreme. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The experiment, of course, is scarcely possible, except in quatrains of an epigrammatic structure. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 The inspiration for this quatrain is found in four ruba'iyat of the Calcutta MS., viz.: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Many editors are glad to buy quatrains and even couplets to fill out a page when a longer form would be rejected. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers They read all their verses in a singing tone, and the quatrains of the twelve-syllable verse are read with the motif of the comintan, which is their national song. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century "Snow of the Northland", by M. Estella Shufelt, is a religious poem of different sort, whose tuneful dactylic quatrains contain much noble and appropriate metaphor. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 William Watson condenses his impressions of this majestic sculpture in the following quatrain.— Italy, the Magic Land The influence of the following is traceable in the quatrains, C. 115, C. 286, and C. 510:95 I am a disobedient slave, where is Thy mercy? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The Quatrain In the seventeenth century the quatrain was a favorite tool of the old English writers who wished to embody a stinging epigram or epitaph in verse. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers He knows Will Shakespeare's human heart And feels his godlike brain; And sings his soul a kindred part In rondeau and quatrain. The Loom of Life The poet, in commencing a piece like this, should decide whether or not to rhyme the first and third lines of quatrains; and having decided, should adhere to his decision. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 One takes his guitar, and in a slow, drawling recitative sings a simple quatrain, which the other at once caps with a second in rhyme and rhythm matching the first. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 It will be observed that the reading of quatrain 87, l. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Nor was he the only unblushing exponent of the questionable quatrain. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Compared with these sterile, bald, and mechanical quatrains, the sacred hymns of Isaac Watts are howling and bacchanalian anacreontics, to be hiccoughed by drunkards in their most abandoned hours of revelry. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History "When I Am Gone," a poem in pentameter quatrains by James Laurence Crowley, contains the customary allotment of sweet sentiment, together with some really commendable imagery. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Again, in epigrams dealing with memorable events or in praise of famous men, sometimes he looked to the profit of the work rather than to its polish, as in Ausonius' quatrains on the Caesars. An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams This quatrain in its original form in the second edition was closer to the original Persian. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z One thing is certain, that the quatrain because of its very brevity demands more care and polishing than a longer piece of verse. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers The nasal and guttural pronunciation of the French language, the bare existence of such a word as quatrain, is enough to prove to Alfieri that the French can never know true liberty. The Countess of Albany The metre, which is well handled, consists of regular iambic pentameter quatrains with a couplet at the conclusion. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The poems are noteworthy for the fusion of human emotion and natural scenery and for the startlingly specific phrasing of the first quatrain. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning This quatrain in its various forms is inspired by O. 5. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Charms or incantations often took rhythmical form—verses, couplets, or quatrains were widely used. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV It will be seen that the last two lines continue the sentence begun by the first two lines, making with them a quatrain: between come masses of parallel lines interrupting with a tour-de-force of execration. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature In the first place, the quatrains should have their rhymes regularly recurring; either in both first and third, and second and fourth lines; or only in second and fourth. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 But all this bracketed quatrain breaks the connection between what precedes and verse 17.706.Cornill after Greek.707.Omit of bronze for the metre's sake; it is a copyist's echo of i. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 This quatrain is taken from O. 83 and 84. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Some of it is written in a loose, swinging couplet, some in quatrains, some in blank verse, some in the choice, picked prose made the fashion by Lyly. William Shakespeare Sections 5 and 6, the monologue of Wisdom, are cast in quatrains, but as the monologue crescendoes to its climax the quatrains 'augment' to 5, 6, 7 lines. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature He has written verse of a distinctly modern atmosphere, and where his imagery is not too obtrusively artificial—according to the modern idea—many of his quatrains possess genuine poetic value. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 A quatrain follows of longer, equal lines as is usual with Jeremiah when expressing spiritual truths:— Lord I know! Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 The only other quatrain peculiar to the first edition is No. 37. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It has, naturally, been difficult at times to decide whether certain stanzas should be counted as couplets, or as quatrains half as long. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs Section 2 is made up of introductory quatrain, strophe, and antistrophe. ii. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Those decasyllabic quatrains are a decided departure from Mrs. Renshaw's usual style, which explains the slight lack of fluency. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 If these Qînah quatrains are not Jeremiah's, some one else could match him to the letter and the very breath. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 The quatrains peculiar to the second edition are as follows: XIV. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The quatrain form has in uncertain instances been given the benefit of the doubt. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs This simple elegy is cast in quatrain stanzas. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature After the second stanza, the couplet form shifts in an unwarranted manner to the quatrain arrangement. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The next couplet, or quatrain, almost approaches the best poetry. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 See also the quatrain from the �Notes,� p. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Lovely Nancy, 4abcb, 5: A dialogue, in quatrains, between Nancy and her lover, whom she wishes to accompany on his voyage to the West Indies. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs It is an immemorial delight, this pleasure in the lingering line, in the haunting couplet, in the quatrain that will not let you forget. Penguin Persons & Peppermints The parodist who wrote the following newspaper quatrain was no enemy of the automobile in spite of his cynicism. The Automobilist Abroad One of us would write a deccasyllabic couplet—we always called it a quatrain, as being a better-class word—and the rhyme in the second line would not be actually given but merely indicated. Marge Askinforit This quatrain owes its inspiration to C. 12. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins, ii, 4aab3b, 13: The lover offers the maiden in alternate quatrains various gifts to induce her to marry him. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs To such an objection as this, Rossetti said: I am rather aghast for my own lucidity when I read what you say as to the first quatrain of my Keats sonnet. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti He jabbed at the menu with a fork and glowed and shouted, “Say, isn’t it great, that quatrain about ‘Take the cash and let the credit go’?” The Job An American Novel Excited, exuberant, bubbling over with that very emotionalism at which he had scoffed a few minutes earlier, Felix leaned back in his chair and sang a quatrain in his singularly sweet and penetrating tenor. A Son of the Immortals This quatrain owes its origin to two ruba'iyat in O., viz., The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The first and last line of each quatrain rhyme together, while the middle lines of each form the second rhyme. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti To all passers-by I give notice that Dada's quatrains have gone mad, and are running amuck. The Cycle of Spring This is apparent in a well-known quatrain from Goethe: "Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers." Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The inspiration for this quatrain comes from O. 35 of which ll. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z When there are two verses the stanza is called a couplet; a three line stanza is called a tercet; a four line stanza, a quatrain. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The words which he had spoken into the machine and which were the first ever to be reproduced mechanically, was the old Mother Goose quatrain, starting, "Mary had a Little Lamb." American Men of Mind When we are out for adventure, we must leave behind all fears, all quatrains, all Pundits, and all Scriptures. The Cycle of Spring A stanza of two lines is called a couplet; of three lines, a triplet; of four lines, a quatrain. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The inspiration for this quatrain comes from O. 19. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z These lines are divided into two groups, one of which consists of eight lines or two quatrains, the whole known as the octave. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The poems are composed in short quatrains of a slowly moving rhythm restrained by frequent pauses and occasional metrical irregularities, and thus they reflect with faithfulness the paternal agony with which they are filled. Life Immovable First Part Are you still suffering from the quatrain fever? The Cycle of Spring It is divided into two parts: the first consisting of an octave or double quatrain, and the other of a sestet. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The inspiration for this quatrain comes from C. 170. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Two of his latest songs are "Forever and a Day," with many original touches, and a "Song from Omar Khayyám," which is made of some of the most cynical of the tent-maker's quatrains. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions But the system of completed quatrains in that model suits more assured and dominating passion than the present matter provides. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence Ah, that was fine.—Dada goes to read his quatrains to the village people, and Chandra has disappeared,—for what purpose nobody knows. The Cycle of Spring The rhymes of the first two quatrains are usually the same; those of the sestet are variously arranged. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism There are also two quatrains which appeared in the first edition only, and nine that appeared in the second edition only. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z To be sure, he had originally composed this quatrain for Ophelia; but what would you have? A Midnight Fantasy Michel de Notredame published in 1555 his famous work entitled "Centuries," a collection of prophecies, written in quatrains. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Then Dada must be near at hand with his quatrains. The Cycle of Spring The above quatrain is placed beneath a portrait characteristically engraved by Cross. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. I do not think that this work would be complete without an attempt to identify these quatrains in the original texts which inspired them. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z In fact, his philosophy on this point might be summed up in the quatrain:— A bath in the morning Is the bookman's adorning; A bath at night Is the bookman's delight. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 One of his quatrains runs:— "Much I make as make the others; Better much another man Makes than I; but much, moreover, Make I which no other can." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Then my quatrains—— Chandra We shall colour your quatrains with such a thick brush, that no one will know whether they have any meaning at all. The Cycle of Spring Beneath each engraving is a rhyming and punning quatrain. The Book-Hunter at Home The original of this quatrain is C. 37. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z From that time on, he would now and then ask me to complete a quatrain by adding a couplet of my own to one given by him. My Reminiscences The aspiration expressed in the old quatrain is fulfilled. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Dada, you are always struggling with those quatrains of yours, full of advice that is as old as death, while the earth and the water are ever striving to be new. The Cycle of Spring The poem is written in quatrains, rhymed couplet and couplet, not alternately, but evidently intended for quatrains, inasmuch as the sense frequently runs on at the second line, but regularly stops at the fourth. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) In addition to the quatrains composing the final form in which we know his poem, there are a few stray quatrains scattered about Edward FitzGerald's Introduction and Notes. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The first quatrain says: Remember me when I am gone and we can no longer meet and part as in life. The Principles of English Versification Each plate to the Life has a quatrain appended, and each fable with its moral is versified beneath the accompanying picture. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Here's Dada going to run amuck with his quatrains. The Cycle of Spring And the fourth is in the quatrain aaab, but with the b rhyme identical throughout, capped with a couplet ab. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) This quatrain is inspired by O. 127 and by C. 60. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The division of the sestet into two distinct tercets is very rarely maintained; and that of the octave into quatrains is frequently neglected with impunity. The Principles of English Versification His favorite poem is "A frog he would a-wooing go,"—especially the first quatrain. By the Christmas Fire We will receive the spear-thrusts of the quatrains on our breast, not on our back. The Cycle of Spring This measure is the old fourteener, which struggles to appear in the Cid, regularly divided into hephthemimers, and now regularly arranged also in mono-rhymed quatrains. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) For this quatrain I can find neither authority nor inspiration. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Some, like the first two below, preserve the metrical division of the quatrains, with the couplet for an epigrammatic summary; others more or less obscure the division. The Principles of English Versification Stanza 6 is reminiscent of the beautiful English quatrain beginning: ‘Westron wind, when will thou blow.’ Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Dada The gist of the quatrain is this, that if we do no good to the world, then—— Then the world will be very greatly relieved. The Cycle of Spring The normal line of which these quatrains are composed is a thirteen-syllabled one divided by a central pause, so that the first half is an iambic dimeter catalectic, and the second an iambic dimeter hypercatalectic. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) The inspiration for this quatrain occurs in O. 9. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It consists of a series of quatrains abab, with the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated chainwise as the first and third of the next stanza. The Principles of English Versification Having found the song for which she was searching, she took her place before the piano and began the quatrain’s throbbing accompaniment. Grace Harlowe's Problem You hear the hum of human bees, they smell the honey of Dada's quatrains. The Cycle of Spring In the visitors' book of the inn at Pen-y-gwryd, Tom Hughes, Tom Taylor, and he left alternate quatrains of doggerel to celebrate their stay, written currente calamo, as the spirit prompted them. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies In this quatrain FitzGerald is �reminded of� O. 26 and 51 by N. 123. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Octave, a stanza of eight lines; especially the two quatrains of an Italian sonnet, 120. The Principles of English Versification In spite of occasional crudities of expression, the ideas are always poetic and elevated, and there are many vigorous couplets and quatrains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 We shall all be soon sitting down on the ground composing quatrains. The Cycle of Spring He ends with this quatrain: With beams December planets dart, His cold eye truth and conduct scanned; July was in his sunny heart, October in his liberal hand. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The inspiration for this richly varied quatrain comes from O. 60. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The second quatrain adds: when we can no longer enjoy the companionship of mind, planning what might have been. The Principles of English Versification In a more or less extensive, though desultory, reading of a little of almost everything, the writer has never stumbled upon any chanty or verse from which the famous quatrain might have sprung. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Now all danger of quatrain fever is over. The Cycle of Spring I motioned him to sit by my side, and then without more ado told him of the evil turn that had befallen the dhobi, and showed him the quatrain of verses. Tales of Destiny The original of this quatrain is C. 99. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It is also not best to give too much weight to the opinion that Shakespeare has been over-influenced by Daniel in the adoption of the quatrain and couplet structure. Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana No sooner had Waller read it than the quatrain of Old Billy Bones took possession 71of him and converted itself into music. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Edward Fitzgerald, a cultured eccentric, a friend of Tennyson, produced what professed to be a translation of the Persian poet Omar, who wrote quatrains about wine and roses and things in general. The Victorian Age in Literature That quatrain may suffice to decorate our page. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) The original of this quatrain is found in O. 43. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The contemplation so absorbed him that he could not quit his theme till he had composed twenty-two quatrains. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes He managed to sell both versions of the quatrain afterwards for five dollars. Coffee and Repartee Similar in cadence, though different in arrangement, is the measure of Too Late, with its singularly constructed stanza of two quatrains, followed respectively by two couplets, which together made another quatrain. An Introduction to the Study of Browning No. 9, in the Great Room, has this quatrain from Tennyson— 'She only said: "My life is dreary— He cometh not!" she said; She said: "I'm aweary, aweary— I would that I were dead." Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 The first two lines of this quatrain echo two fragments from the MSS. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Four quatrains of it, or two eight-line stanzas, are the usual length of a hymnal selection, and editors can pick and choose anywhere among its expressive verses. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes The modern picture should be a painted quatrain, with colours for words—words which say nothing, because everything has been said, but which suggest all that has been felt and dreamed. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts ‘Twenty-eight quatrains, no less, a hundred and twelve lines,’ said the insufferable Merton. The Disentanglers At least, he couldn't answer the arguments presented in Fitzgerald's beautiful quatrains. The Plastic Age There are some scores of ruba'iyat that may be said to have contributed their imageries to the quatrain. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It is good congregational psalmody, and not unsuited to the sentiment, taken line by line, but it divides the stanzas into quatrains, which breaks the happy continuity. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes The quatrain is the analogue of the Greek gem, the consummate flower of the national art of the period. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts Merton wanted no more quatrains, but he did mean to try to be civil. The Disentanglers Three lines in the same rhythm as extract 1, but with a different rhyme-scheme; apparently three lines from a quatrain rhyming abab. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints The influence of these lines is carried on into the next quatrain. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z “Audientes” by Sir Arthur Sullivan is a gentle, emotional piece, rendering the first quatrain of each stanza in E flat unison, and the second in C harmony. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes The two quatrains are in verses of ten feet, and the two tiercets in Alexandrine metre. Musical Memories Well, this quatrain is said, I believe truly, to have been discovered in a well near Padua some fifty years ago. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The epic is telescoped into the sonnet, and the sonnet is compressed into quatrains or Tabbs of poetry, and couplets are signed as masterpieces. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy This is a very composite quatrain, which cannot be claimed as a translation of all, or the main part of any, of the C. or O. quatrains. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z I could find a better phrase with time; but the quatrain just quoted makes it unmistakable, as I think. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary One effect of this was to consecrate the ten-syllabled quatrain to elegiac uses. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The artificial figures of rhetorical arrangement that are so omnipresent in the antitheses, chiasmuses, parallelisms, etc., of Pope and his school are in Gray's best quatrains unobtrusive or even infrequent. An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript Moreover, the quatrain which he wrote for his statue of the Night justifies us in regarding that chapel as the cenotaph designed by him for murdered Liberty. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots The original of this quatrain is found in O. 34. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z But you encourage her at the end with this quatrain: "If thou, so oft beaten, Amendest by this, I will no more threaten, I promise thee, Cis." In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Why Hammond or other writers," says Johnson, "have thought the quatrain of ten syllables elegiac, it is difficult to tell. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Possibly such an idea determined him in discarding four noble quatrains with which he first designed to end his poem. An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript It will be observed that the two quatrains are bound together by the first two b rhymes, and the Alexandrine, which rhymes with the eighth line, draws out the harmony with a peculiar lingering effect. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I This quatrain, which is in the nature of a reflection upon the three preceding ones, conveys an idea which is constantly recurrent in the ruba'iyat. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Its characteristic feature, as the following sonnet from Shakespeare will show, was a division into three distinct quatrains, each with alternating rimes, and closed by a couplet. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson This decision was given in a short poem of four quatrains which is preserved in the preface to the "Martyrology" of Aengus. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 For years after Gray's great success, however, most elegies, if in quatrain form, followed Gray's quatrain in manner, whether or not their subjects demanded the stately line. An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript In Sicily the stanza generally consists of eight lines rhyming alternately throughout, while in the North of Italy it is normally a simple quatrain. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Forty-four are traceable to more than one quatrain, and therefore may be termed �composite� quatrains. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The octave is sometimes said to consist of two quatrains, and the sestet of two tercets. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson The quatrain, if of no other value, gives us an idea of the commodities bartered, and the tradesmen who offered their goods at Irish fairs in English towns during the thirteenth century. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 He showed me a curious souvenir of the day of the evictions, in the shape of a quatrain, written by the young wife of an evicted tenant. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) Shakspere, as already hinted, adhered to the simple form introduced by Surrey: his stanzas invariably consist of three separate quatrains followed by a couplet. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Two are inspired by quatrains found by FitzGerald only in Nicolas' text. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It was not until comparatively modern times that our Western world fully recognized the value of the distich, triplet or quatrain for the expression of beautiful thoughts, rather than for the expression of ill-natured ones. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn A ballad, he reminds them, does not necessarily denote a poem in quatrains and in antique language. Reviews Irish religious poetry," it has been well said, "ranges from single quatrains to lengthy compositions dealing with all the varied aspects of religious life. A Celtic Psaltery Surrey did not adhere to the strict fashion of Petrarch: his sonnets consist either of three regular quatrains concluded with a couplet, or else of twelve lines rhyming alternately and concluded with a couplet. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The original of this quatrain was C. 44. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z But the quatrain has a much wider range than this funereal limitation, and one such example of epitaph will suffice. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn The sonnet consists of four heroic quatrains somewhat curiously resembling the manner of Gray. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance The quatrain was made one evening when we were capping verses with G——. Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) And reviewing my writing, I had to smile at myself, even as I used to smile at Captain Blaise when he would submit his couplets or quatrains for my judgment. Wide Courses The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute; The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute; This quatrain is translated from O. 77. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Here is another little bit, reminding us somewhat of Goethe’s quatrain, already quoted. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Coleridge’s quatrain on Donne is, without doubt, an unequalled masterpiece of epigrammatic criticism. The Art of Letters The poem consists of quatrains, each containing a complete and compactly expressed thought. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature My quatrains were tedious, and my tercets entirely too diffuse. The Cross of Berny The inspiration for this quatrain is contained in O. 75. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z So far as form goes a much better master of quatrain is the American poet Aldrich, who wrote the following little thing, entitled “Popularity.” Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn With quatrain 68 we may compare the verses of a Christian poet, quoted by Tabari: And where is now the lord of Hadr, he that built it and laid taxes on the land of Tigris? The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala The quatrain in old French written below one of Holbein's pictures is profoundly sad in its simplicity. The Devil's Pool The quatrains entitled Lydgate's answer, are amply complimentary on the foregoing song, but otherwise as prosaic as the lines that introduce it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 This quatrain owes its origin to C. 95. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Herrick, as you know, delighted in very short poems; but he was greatly influenced by Jonson, and many of his couplets and of his quatrains are worthless satires or worthless jests. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn The following additional quatrains may be quoted: Unasking have we come,—too late, too soon Unasking from this plot of earth are sent. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala Heine's love poems—two-thirds of the Book of Songs—are written in the very simplest of verses, mostly quatrains of easy and seemingly inevitable structure. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes I like the quatrain, of course; who, knowing the "Incorrigibles," doesn't? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919 The main inspiration of this quatrain comes from C. 388.60 Arise, and do not sorrow for this fleeting world, Be at peace, and pass through the world with happiness. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z A stanza of four lines is called a quatrain. Composition-Rhetoric We have mention in this quatrain of a winding-sheet, and that could be of linen or of damask. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala This letter is written under the autograph copy of a sonnet which must have been sent with it, since it expresses the same thought in its opening quatrain. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Then again, the eight-line stanza is something quite different from a mere aggregate of quatrains arranged in pairs. English Men of Letters: Crabbe A fragment of an edition begun by the late Mr. Blochmann, containing only 62 quatrains. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z A quatrain consisting of iambic pentameter verse with alternate rhymes is called an elegiac stanza. Composition-Rhetoric This quatrain goes on to allude to things which can improve by being struck. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala During the first and second quatrain, sung decidedly forte, no can was filled. Adam Bede What remains of his verse mostly takes the form of quatrains, yet for originality of thought, wealth of imagery and style, they have seldom been excelled. A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China L. This introduction of the four elements in one quatrain is called Mutazadd. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The lines of quatrains show a variety in the arrangement of their rhymes. Composition-Rhetoric It is possible to give a mystical turn to the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. The Book of Delight and Other Papers Some will perhaps think that they detect in the first quatrain an indication of a lost line, which later rhapsodists, failing in imaginative vigour, have supplied by the feeble device of iteration. Adam Bede The two quatrains that follow are worthy of the author. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 This pair of quatrains must be considered together. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z In the third scene Ollantay prefers his suit to the Inca Pachacuti in octosyllabic quatrains, the first and last lines rhyming, and the second and third. Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas There is a fine ring to this familiar quatrain of Mr. Longfellow, but it is nothing more than a musical cheat. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Then there is one quatrain, to which his notice was not called, for which I wish to substitute another. Authors and Friends In the Annus Mirabilis he returned to the quatrain, which from that time he totally quitted, perhaps from experience of its inconvenience, for he complains of its difficulty. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 It may be that the irreligious and Epicurean quatrains were written in youth, and the Munajat in his riper years. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Songs and important speeches are in quatrains of octosyllabic lines, the first and last rhyming, and the second and third. Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas This is one of the quatrains which he pronounces "worthy of our author." Among My Books First Series Each couplet or quatrain is so whole in itself, that you can't connect them. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge I have no more doubt that “moves,” in the quatrain, means “removes,” than I have that “stones” means “gravestones.” Shakespeare's Bones Find the classicist, the aristocrat, the Englishman, and the lover in that quatrain! A Study of Poetry A eulogistic quatrain is signed Nature quite, which, it is generally agreed, is an anagram of Jean Turquet. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 And I have little doubt that it was the roominess, rather than the dignity, of the quatrain which led him to choose it. Among My Books First Series It may be worth while to note here that Baudelaire printed in his volume a quatrain inspired by one of Manet's Spanish pictures. Modern Painting His rhyming jests, his quatrains, couplets, acrostics, epigrams, and songs, which were sometimes rather risky, though they had a certain coarsely witty quality, were often quoted. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The octave is made up of two quatrains and the sestet of two tercets. A Study of Poetry His Rubáiyát is a little volume of quatrains, about five hundred in all, distinguished for wit, satirical power, and a vein of melancholy, sometimes pensive, sometimes passionate. Early European History Free verse ought to be less monotonous than constantly repeated sonnets, quatrains, and stanza-forms; but the fact is just the other way. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Marinist quaintness still clings here and there, and he has temporarily deserted the classical distich for a quatrain stanza; but here, for the first time, we taste the Dryden of the Satires and the Fables. Palamon and Arcite I would not," he said, "permit her to undertake any effort until she can inspire within one day of twelve hours at least eighteen quatrains, and those lucid, grammatical, and moving. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects I must not give the reader too much of these lines, but the following quatrain deserves recognition and a permanent memory: Napoleon hoped that all the world would fall beneath his sway. On Something And there in the very midst of "Drake," that poem of a great sea fighter, comes this quatrain unexpectedly, showing the Christ always in the background of the poet's mind. Giant Hours with Poet Preachers Lamb had written some quatrains to the editor of the Every-Day Book, which were printed in the London Magazine for May, 1825. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Calmness of mind to face anything the future may have in store is expressed in this quatrain. It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration Don Tiburcio converted into a quatrain—two feet, one longer than the other, between two crutches! The Reign of Greed In the third stanza, I consider the middle quatrain, that is, the four lines beginning "Out of this world," perfectly grand. England's Antiphon The "Rubáiyát" is, on the other hand, a string of quatrains, each of which has all the complete and independent significance of an epigram. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 The quatrains describe the old power of Genoa, who conquered Pisa, abased Venice, planted colonies in the East, and discovered America. Sonnets And then I wrote a three-page quatrain on 'Immortality,' which, if I do say it, is the funniest thing I ever read. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others These quatrains, or couplets of four verses, have been translated into nearly all European and several Eastern languages. Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband In the first quatrain “spoken” does not rhyme with “open”; Butler knew this and would not alter it because there are similar assonances in Shakespeare, e.g. “open” and “broken” in Sonnet LXI. xiii. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler He speaks what often we do not dare to speak; one of his quatrains can be more easily quoted than some of those thoughts can be formulated. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 The play on words in the first quatrain and the first terzet is Shakespearian. Sonnets "But—ah— to remedy that drawback I took pains to find out what type-writer you used, and I had my quatrain copied on one of the same make." Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others A Quatrain A quatrain fills a little space, Although it's pretty small, And oftentimes, as in this case, It has no point at all. Tobogganing on Parnassus Successive rhymes have their advantages, but they do not give the effect of interlinking, which is so natural in a stanza; the quatrain is reduced to two couplets, and its unity is gone. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace Reading the five hundred or so authentic quatrains one asks, Which is the real Omar? The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 The first quatrain lays down the principle that ill-doing brings its own inevitable punishment. Sonnets I could not rest until I had read his "three-page quatrain" on "Immortality." Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others Satirical poems in manuscript passed from hand to hand in coffee-houses, casinos and drawing-rooms, and every conspicuous incident in social or political life was borne on a biting quatrain to the confines of the state. The Valley of Decision I shall follow your advice about the quatrains and tercets. The Life of Sir Richard Burton "Ah," said Frederick, "what a beautiful quatrain Monsieur Arouet has made." Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends Yet when the choice lay between a sacrifice of metrical exactitude and a sacrifice of sense, I have not hesitated to prefer the former, especially in dealing with Campanella's quatrains. Sonnets There is a local quatrain explaining these colours, which may be roughly Englished as— "White is the strand, But green the land, Red the rocks stand Round Heligoland." The Days Before Yesterday And upon the Palace-door was inscribed the following quatrain, "This Mansion's adorned * As delight to mans eye; O'er its door writ is 'Welcome,' * So safely draw nigh." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 His passenger, to whom the old schoolbook quatrain was entirely unknown, wondered what on earth the man was talking about. The Portygee "You wish to show me that the fruit of your muse ripens slowly, and you improvise a charming quatrain that Moliere himself would be proud to have composed." Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends For the rest of the afternoon I pretended to be sulking, but I was really working back to that quatrain, like a fox-terrier that’s buried a deferred lunch in a private flower-bed. Reginald He owed his admission to the Academy partly to a tender quatrain which he improvised in praise of his lively patroness. The Women of the French Salons How Edward Anne must have regretted that he had not knocked off an epigram, a biting couplet, or a smart quatrain with the sting of the wit in the tail! Oxford With false whiskers on, it would serve up cold as a quatrain, doubling its producing value. Waifs and Strays Part 1 We will give a single instance, and certainly a favourable instance,—a quatrain which Johnson has praised. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 So saying, she took a piece of peach-blossom paper, on which she carefully copied the quatrain and handed it to the woman. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) She evidently did not overestimate her personal attractions, as will be seen from the following quatrain, which she wrote upon a portrait made by one of her friends. The Women of the French Salons His pleasantly depressing melancholy was dissipated by a puff of violent emotion; angrily he threw his quatrain into the waste-paper basket and ran downstairs. Crome Yellow In a Book of Hours, now the property of the Czar, may be partly deciphered the quatrains which she composed in her sorrowful years, but many of them are mutilated by the binder's shears. Books and Bookmen There is no proof whatever that these miserable lines were really written by Lee, except that the measure is the fashionable quatrain of the period. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English She was delighted at receiving the verses, and at once sat down to compose a quatrain to match Jasmine's in reply. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) In reference to this occasion I may put on record Lowell's quatrain above referred to, which is cast upon the great clock-bell of the university. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 On the back of the postcard, next to the address, was written, in Ivor's bold, large hand, a single quatrain. Crome Yellow True, the last line did not scan, but that was a trifle, since the quatrain at least conformed to the mode then prevalent. Dead Souls Much I remembered, possibly two-thirds of the quatrains, and I managed to piece out the remainder without difficulty. The Sea Wolf |
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