A lament or dirge is a song or poem expressing grief or regret. Many of the oldest and most lasting poems in human history have been laments. Laments are present in both the Iliad and the Odyssey, in the Hindu Vedas, and in ancient Near Eastern religious texts, including the Mesopotamian city laments such as the Lament for Ur and the Jewish Tanakh (or Old Testament). In the traditional music of Scotland, a lament is also a genre of musical composition for the bagpipes. In Scots Gaelic, these pieces are often called pi ...

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• To dream that you bitterly lament the loss of friends, or property, signifies great struggles and much distress, from which will spring causes for joy and personal gain.
• To lament the loss of relatives, denotes sickness or disappointments, which will bring you into closer harmony with companions, and will result in brighter prospects for the future.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Lament, Meaning of Dreams about Lament, Dream Interpretation Lament)

A death poem (辞世の句: jisei no ku) is a poem written near the time of one's own death. It is a tradition for literate persons to write one in a number of different cultures, especially in Japan. Poetry has long been a core part of Japanese tradition, in strong relation to religious practice. The poem should be graceful, natural, and about neutral emotions adhering to the teachings of Buddhism and Shinto (and possibly Christianity). Except the earliest works of this tradition, it has been considered to be rude to me ...

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The future is unpredictable, so the end is unknown to us. This is the mystery of human life. Ancient wisdom had no hesitation in accepting this truth. But today, we find it difficult to accept.

T S Eliot lamented: "Where is the wisdom, we have lost in knowledge;/ Where is the knowledge, we have lost in information".

(See also: Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Crescent is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in 1964 by Impulse! Records. Crescent John Coltrane - Track listing. "Crescent" "Wise One" "Bessie's Blues" "Lonnie's Lament" "The Drum Thing" ...

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The banshee (IPA: /ˈbænʃiː/) is a creature in Gaelic folklore, the word being derived from the Old Irish ben síde, modern Irish bean sídhe or bean sí, "fairy woman" (bean, woman, and sidhe, being the tuiseal ginideach or possessive case of "fairy"). The sídh are derived from pre-Christian Gaelic deities. When members of the community died, a woman would sing a traditional lament or caoineadh at their funerals. These wo ...

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In Greek mythology, Cocytus, meaning river of wailing (Greek κωκυτός, "lamentation") was the river in the underworld on the banks of which the dead who could not pay Charon wandered, according to most accounts, for one hundred years. It flowed into the river Acheron, across which lay Hades, the mythological abode of the dead. In The Divine Comedy (Inferno), Cocytus is the ninth and lowest circle of Hell and is frozen by the flapping wings of Lucifer, or Satan. In the Inferno Cocytus is referred to as ...

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The aisling (Irish aislinn), pronounced ashling, or vision poem is a poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries in Irish language poetry. In an aisling, the island of Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, sometimes young and beautiful, sometimes old and haggard. This female figure is generally referred to in the poems as An Spéirbhean (the sky-woman). She laments the current state of the Irish people and predicts an immanent revival of their fortunes, usually linked to the retur ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Transcendentalist is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism. The lecture was read at the Masonic Temple in Boston, Massachusetts in January 1842. The work begins by contrasting materialists and idealists. Emerson laments the absence of "old idealists." He goes on to outline the fundamental beliefs and characterists of the New England Transcendentalists. He discusses the nature of epistemology and the debate between Locke and Kant on Imerative forms and Transcendental forms, and dis ...

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High Tide was a band that was formed in 1969 by Tony Hill (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Simon House (violin and keyboards), Pete Pavli (bass) and Roger Hadden (drums). The trademark of their first album "Sea Shanties" was the constant battling between the electric guitar of Tony Hill and the electric violin of Simon House. There is hardly a quiet moment on "Sea Shanties", the heaviest tracks being "Futilist's Lament" and the instrumental "Death Warmed Up". Stylistically it is a mix of har ...

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Balm of Gilead is a healing compound made from the resinous gum of a bush which grew plentifully in the area of Gilead. This compound came to known as the "Balm of Gilead", and was exported widely. The Balm of Gilead is mentioned several times in the scriptures. Balm of Gilead is also an alternative name for Canada balsam. As Used in Poetry "Balm of Gilead" also shows up in Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven". The character believes that the "balm of Gilead" can heal his broken heart, because he is lamenting for the death of his love, Lenor. As Refere ...

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A charabanc (pronounced sha-ra-bang) is a kind of open-topped bus common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century. It was especially popular for "works outings" to the country or the seaside that businesses would hold once a year. It is mentioned in Ian Anderson's 'Wond'ring Again' from Living in the Past, as well as tangentially in The Decemberists' song The Legionnaire's Lament. From what is gathered from the context of the song, a charabanc ride is nothing but a joy-ride for the nothing-to-dos, and find ...

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An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, "extreme", and stíchos, "verse") is a poem or other text written in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each verse, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message. Acrostics may simply spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; these acrostics occur in the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and in certain of the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible. Two notable acrostic Psalms are the long Psalm 119, ...

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia. Council of Pisa - Preliminaries. The Great Schism of the West had lasted thirty years (since 1378), and none of the means employed to bring it to an end had been successful. Compromise or arbitral agreement between the two parties had never been seriously attempted; surrender had failed lamentably owing to the obstinacy of the rival popes, all equally convinced of their rights; action, that is the interference of pri ...

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The rune ᚢ representing the sound u is called Ur in all three rune poems, however with different meanings: Norwegian ᚢ er af illu jarne; opt løypr ræinn á hjarne. Dross comes from bad iron; the reindeer often races over the frozen snow. Icelandic ᚢ er skýja grátr ok skára þverrir ok hirðis hatr. umbre vísi Rain is lamentation o ...

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The Book of Baruch is a deuterocanonical book, found in the Greek Bible (LXX) and in the Vulgate Bible, but not in the Hebrew Bible, although it was included in Theodotion's version¹. Scholars propose that it was written during or shortly after the period of the Maccabees². Baruch is found among the prophetical books which include Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, (Baruch), Ezekiel, Daniel, and the twelve minor prophets. Book of Baruch - Liturgical use. Bar 3:9-38 is used in the liturgy of Holy Saturday dur ...

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Dracula Castlevania - Castlevania: Lament of Innocence 1094. Though it is never explicitly stated, it is believed by most Castlevania fans that Dracula was first known as Mathias Cronqvist, in the years before 1094. It was during this time when he was best of friends with a man known as Leon Belmont. Together, the two formed an undefeatable company, that fought in the name of God. Mathias served as the tactical genius, while Leon was a warrior without peer. However, shortly after losing his wife, El ...

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In almost all of his in-game incarnations, Dracula initially appears as a stereotypical vampire count, complete with long black cape. His most common form of attack is to teleport from one part of the screen to another, then opening his cape to fire a spread of three small fireballs at the player. In later games he can also fire larger, meteor-like fireballs. Usually, he can only be damaged by striking him in the head or neck area. In some games (Such as Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse or Castlevania: Bloodlines), inste ...

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Through his union with the human Lisa, Dracula had a son. His son would be born Adrian Farenheits Tepes, but would be later known as Alucard. Despite emulating his father early in his life, Alucard decided that he did not want to follow in his father's evil footsteps and battled with him many times. It is said he chose the anagram "Alucard" ("Dracula" spelled backwards) for his new name as a symbolic gesture, meaning he would go against his father's doings from that point on, like a kind of "anti-Dracula". When exactly Dracula fathered Alucar ...

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