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Song of Myself
"Song of Myself" is Walt Whitman's long free-verse poem, first published untitled in 1855 in Leaves of Grass, renamed "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" in 1856 and "Walt Whitman" in 1860, and given its present title in the 1881 edition.
Song of Release
The Song of Release is a Hurrian narrative poem about the fall of Ebla, preserved in a Hurrian–Hittite bilingual edition from the Hittite capital Ḫattuša.
Song of Solomon (novel)
Toni Morrison's third novel, Song of Solomon (Knopf, 1977), follows Milkman Dead from Michigan to Virginia, using the flying-Africans folktale; it won the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
Song of Songs (שיר השירים)
Song of Songs (שיר השירים, Shir Hashirim), also called the Canticle of Canticles, is a book of Hebrew love poetry in the Hebrew Bible, attributed to Solomon.
Song of the Artemisia
Song of the Artemisia (Haoli, 蒿里) is a short Han dynasty Chinese funeral dirge, sung by coffin-pullers at burials and preserved in Guo Maoqian's Collection of Yuefu Poetry.
Song of the Bandits (도적: 칼의 소리)
Song of the Bandits (도적: 칼의 소리) is a 2023 Netflix Korean Western series, nine episodes set in 1920s Gando, starring Kim Nam-gil as bandit leader Lee Yoon; no season 2 confirmed.
Song of the Chile
The Song of the Chile (敕勒歌, Chìlè Gē) is a 27-character Northern Dynasties folk song describing the grassland below the Yin Mountains, preserved in the Collection of Yuefu Poetry.
Song of the Deep
Song of the Deep is a 2016 metroidvania action-adventure game by Insomniac Games, published by GameTrust, following Merryn, who builds a submarine to find her lost father; Metacritic 69, Steam Very Positive.
Song of the Earth (MacMillan ballet)
Song of the Earth is Kenneth MacMillan's one-act 1965 ballet to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, created for Stuttgart Ballet (Marcia Haydée, Ray Barra, Egon Madsen) after the Royal Opera House board rejected the score, then acquired by The Royal Ballet in May 1966.
Song of the Great Wind
The Song of the Great Wind (Dafeng ge, 大風歌) is a three-line song attributed to Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, sung at his home village of Pei in 195 BCE.
Song of the hoe
The Song of the hoe is a Sumerian poem of about 109 lines in which the god Enlil separates heaven from earth and forms humankind with a hoe.
Song Of The Moon (月歌行)
Song of the Moon (月歌行, Yue Ge Xing) is a 2022 Chinese xianxia romance drama adapted from Shu Ke's novel Ben Yue, directed by Lin Jianlong, starring Zhang Binbin and Xu Lu, 40 episodes on iQiyi from December 15, 2022.
Song of the Open Road
"Song of the Open Road" is an 1856 Walt Whitman poem, later retitled from "Poem of the Road," celebrating freedom and the journey along a public road.
Song of the Orphan
Song of the Orphan (孤儿行) is a Han-dynasty yuefu narrative folk poem in the voice of an orphan worked and mistreated by his brother and sister-in-law.
Song of the Pipa
Song of the Pipa (琵琶行) is a long narrative poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi, written in 816 about an aging pipa player he met in exile.
Song of the Running Horse River
Song of the Running Horse River (走马川行) is a Tang dynasty frontier poem by Cen Shen, written around 754 to see off General Feng Changqing's western campaign.
Song of the Sea (2014 film)
Song of the Sea (2014) is Tomm Moore's Irish animated feature for Cartoon Saloon, second in his folklore trilogy after The Secret of Kells. It follows selkie girl Saoirse and brother Ben; it won the 2014 European Film Award and was Oscar-nominated.
Song of the Snow: Farewell to Secretary Wu
Song of the Snow: Farewell to Secretary Wu is an eighteen-line poem by Tang poet Cen Shen, written at Luntai in 754 to see off a colleague.
Song of the South
Song of the South is Disney's 1946 live-action/animation hybrid adapting Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus tales; it won an Oscar for "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" but was shelved by Disney after 1986 and never released on U.S. home video.
Song of the Thatched Hut Torn by the Autumn Wind
A 761 poem in song-style verse by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, describing how autumn wind tore the thatch from his thatched cottage beside the Huanhua Stream in Chengdu.
Song of the Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man (1947) is MGM's sixth and final Thin Man comedy-mystery, directed by Edward Buzzell, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles solving a bandleader's murder on a gambling ship.
Song of the White Hair
Song of the White Hair (Baitou yin) is a Han dynasty yuefu ballad in a woman's voice, traditionally attributed to Zhuo Wenjun and known for its devoted-heart couplet.
Song of Ullikummi
The Song of Ullikummi is a Hittite mythological text, part of the Kumarbi cycle, telling how Kumarbi fathers a stone monster to destroy the Storm-God Teshub.
Song of Weicheng
Song of Weicheng, also known as Song Yuan Er shi Anxi, is a four-line Tang dynasty quatrain by Wang Wei, written as a farewell to a friend departing for the Anxi Protectorate.
Song of Youth (玉楼春)
Song of Youth (玉楼春) is a 2021 Chinese 43-episode costume light comedy on Youku, produced and written by Yu Zheng, starring Bai Lu and Wang Yizhe, set in the Ming Longqing era, with a Douban score of 4.7.
Song Penal Code (Song Xingtong)
The Song Penal Code (宋刑統) is the fundamental penal code of China's Song dynasty, compiled in 963 under Emperor Taizu and the first block-printed law code in Chinese history.
Song picturisation
Song picturisation is the Indian film-industry term for the on-screen staging of a film song: the song is recorded in a studio first, and visuals are filmed afterwards.
Song purchase of Yan (Yanshan prefectures)
The Song purchase of Yan (宣和收复燕京) was the 1123 transfer of Yanjing and six prefectures from the Jin dynasty to the Northern Song, bought after two failed sieges.
Song Qi
Song Qi (宋祁, 998–1061) was a Northern Song statesman, historian, and writer who compiled the biographies of the New History of the Tang from 1044 to 1060.
Song Qiaonian
Song Qiaonian (宋乔年, 1047 to 1113) was a Song dynasty official, grandson of the chancellor Song Xiang, who served as fiscal commissioner and governor of Kaifeng Prefecture.