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...volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Chants by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. Walter Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and re...

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...Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautreamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse. Many of the surrealists in the e...

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...These 101 songs are all postmissionary and owe their musical origin to missionary hymns. None of them are technically chants but some, such as " 'Alika," "Hole Wai-mea," and "Maika'i Kaua'i," are chants that have been edited and set to music. The songs date from the mid-1850's to 1968—the date of Mary Kawena Pukui's Christmas song translatio...

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... Single-handed, and Wins—He Hides His Fish in the King's Canoe—They Plan Another Race to Take Place in Kau, Life to be the Forfeit -- 124 -- Kuapakaa Chants the Winds of Hawaii—The King, Angered, Continues on—Winds of Kauai, Niihau and Kaula; Of Maui, Molokai, Halawa—Chants the Names of His Master, Uncle and Men—Pakaa Orders the Winds of Laamaomao Released -- 92 -- The Can...

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...ity or the insidious influence of other cultural philosophies. It is our purpose to relate what will substantially be the same history, prayers, and chants that for innumerable centuries were recited by the Hawaiian priesthood of the Order of Io and the worship of Kane. If, as inevitably it must, there shall rise a conflict of thought between these articles and the prepo...

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...his line of research work, hence, has little of the original Hawaiian and translation feature of the other parts. Part III. is devoted entirely to chants of various kinds. These are almost wholly from the collection of Judge L. Andrews, whose ripe Hawaiian scholarship is seen in uncompleted translations and notes found in the collection. The “Hani ka Lani” prophecy w...

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...n as “himeni.” The songs in Buke Mele Lahui all use the cou- plet format with no chorus, and although this structure is also seen in more traditional chants, the presentation of these mele were as songs. Like other songbook collections of the era, melody lines aren't included in the text, but melodies were published elsewhere for some songs included here, and other unpubl...

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...eath of Kamehameha III. 416 -- Appendix I. Battles. 433 -- Appendix II. Dates Cited in Text. 435 -- Appendix III. Heiau. 439 -- Appendix IV. Mele and Chants. 441 -- Appendix V. Sayings. 443 -- Appendix VI. Genealogies. 445 -- Appendix VII. Newspaper References. 451 -- Bibliography. 453 -- Index. 455 -- Errata. 514 --...

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... -- The Placenta. 78 -- Infanticide. 79 -- Sacramental Feast For The First-Born. 80 -- Feast For Bearers Of Gifts To The First-Born. 83 -- Eulogistic Chants As Gifts. 84 -- Anniversary Feasts. 86 -- The Fontanel. 86 -- Infants Diet. 87 -- Nursing And Weaning. 88 -- Teething. 89 -- Infancy And Early Childhood. 90 -- Beauty Modelling. 91 -- Treating Latent Organic Disorders....

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...37 -- Xxiv. The Genealogies 140 Xxv. Hawaiian Accounts Of Creation. 153 --Xxvi. Other Polynesian Accounts Of Creation. 160 -- Xxvii. Ceremonial Birth Chants In Polynesia. 175 -- Conclusion. 181 --...

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...a terms, and 22 epithets for vagabonds. Hula masters and students have called the dictionary their bible, perhaps because of the many citations from chants, songs, and ancient prayers, the poetic sayings and epithets, and the abundance of pithy proverbs that comment on many aspects of ancient Hawaiian life. Perhaps no other Polynesian dictionary contains as much poetry, f...

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...ution by the zeal and devotion of men: such things as vestments, ornaments, chants, prayers, organs, candles, and the whole pageantry of outward thin... ... Christ’s mass was most simple, without any display of vestments, gestures, chants, or other ceremonies, so that if it had been necessary to offer t...

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...in 1970. In it a group of Vikings harass two patrons in a restaurant with incessant chants of "spam, spam, spam..." Spam may be an acronym of Simult...

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...led ‘tazias’, the little ones looking proud, but bewildered. They lifted their voices in constant chants of ‘Ali, Hussain; Ali, Hussain’, raising th...

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... appearance were only that mask Thai monks hid behind when they said their chants. "Kumpee said he would live with us but I guess he might mean that n...

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...the songs and hymns of the Supernal angels, and according to the order of chants sung by the sons of Israel below, Malchut adorns and corrects herse...

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...4. 370 -- Prayers To Bring About An Eruption (1931). 374 -- "The Crater Of Kilauea". 375 -- "Ka Manu Ha Waii" (The Birds Of Hawaii). 376 -- Haku Mele-Chants And Songs For Kilauea Made And Offered In Modem Times. 376 -- Kamaaina Recollections. 378 -- Historic Interviews With Kupuna. 378 -- Notes Collected By Theodore Kelsey (1920s-1950s). 378 -- Louis Kauanoekauikalikokahal...

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...everything in a given category, but the most often heard representatives of all the categories. Hundreds of names mentioned in published legends and chants cannot be found on maps. These were excluded unless they were well known to one of the compilers. Also excluded were alternate spellings used by explorers and others before the present orthography was adopted in 1826. ...

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... Death's To the Pending Year Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher Long, Long Hence Bravo, Paris Exposition! Interpolation Sounds To the Sun-Set Breeze Old Chants A Christmas Greeting Sounds of the Winter. A Twilight Song When the Full-Grown Poet Came Osceola A Voice from Death A Persian Lesson The Commonplace "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" Mirages L. of G.'s...

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...ou're here. You haven't seen the changes in the recruits." "I've heard the chants." Lamp light flickered as he reached for a heel of bread. He turn... ... huts, have them gird themselves with leather straps and sheaths. Triumphal chants already carried across the lake. 223 Elissa Malcohn Deviations... ... The gong beside her rang a long, low, steady tone. In time both it and the chants diminished. Her soldiers stood at attention, silent and waiting. ...