"Vainglory" is the title given to an Old English gnomic or homiletic poem of eighty-four lines, preserved in the Exeter Book. The precise date of composition...

The poem is Cædmon's only known composition. The poem has a claim to being the oldest surviving English poem: if Bede's account is correct, the poem was...

Old English rune poem, dated to the 8th or 9th century, has stanzas on 29 Anglo-Saxon runes. It stands alongside younger rune poems from Scandinavia,...

anonymous Old English poem. It is composed of 677 lines and is for the most part a translation and adaptation of the Latin poem De Ave Phoenice attributed...

all surviving Old English poetry. "Widsith" is located between the poems "Vainglory" and "The Fortunes of Men". Since the donation of the Exeter Book in...

(formerly often known as the Lorica of Gildas). This seventh-century Irish poem, also preserved in other manuscripts, is a member of the lorica genre of...

military-religious organization in Tales of the Abyss Lorelai, a character from Vainglory Lorelei (name), a feminine given name 165 Loreley, an asteroid discovered...

of Old English poems written in celebration of the deeds and death of Saint Guthlac of Croyland, a popular Mercian saint. The two poems are presented consecutively...

given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede. It is, by far, the Old English poem that survives in the largest...

accuses him of cowardice; the prophet Idmon in turn accuses Idas of drunken vainglory. A fight almost breaks out but Orpheus soothes everyone with a song about...

English poem on folio 122r of the later tenth-century anthology known as the Exeter Book. Critical discussion has focused on the genre of the poem. It is...

Artificial Princess (written in 1915, published posthumously in 1934) and Vainglory (1915, his longest work) to Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal...

in marriage. She denies him, but in her stead she proposes he wed Lady Vainglory. Fauvel agrees, and the wedding takes place, with such guests present...

chronicle poem that commemorates the capture by King Edmund I of the so-called Five Boroughs of the Danelaw in 942. The seven-line long poem is one of...

tended, as she put it herself, "to be transported with an haviour of vainglory". In 1589, the year after the Spanish Armada, Elizabeth sent to Spain...

a welcome theme wherewith to warn the people against false ambition, vainglory, and unfilial conduct. The vanity with which he displayed his beautiful...

The Death of Alfred is an Old English poem that is part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, concerning the killing of Alfred Aetheling in 1036. It is noted for...

song "Uncut, Pure": Your poetasterous style it plain bore me Pardon the vainglory, but here's the Kane story The band Miracle Fortress has a song entitled...

"Precepts" "The Seafarer" "Vainglory" "Widsith" "The Fortunes of Men" "Maxims I" "The Order of the World" "The Rhyming Poem" "The Panther" "The Whale"...

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repentance and brave last stand. Commentators have remarked on Boromir's vainglory and desire for the Ring. They have compared him both to other proud Tolkien...

Parijatham flower to Krishna. He bestows it to his consort Rukmini, which irks vainglory Satyabhama, and Krishna pacifies her. On his back, Gandhara King Gaya...

chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!" at the start of his essay "On Vainglory". Eventually 'the fly on the coach wheel' became an English idiom with...

Gifts of Men Precepts The Seafarer Vainglory Widsith The Fortunes of Men Maxims I The Order of the World The Rhyming Poem The Panther The Whale The Partridge...

"Precepts" "The Seafarer" "Vainglory" "Widsith" "The Fortunes of Men" "Maxims I" "The Order of the World" "The Rhyming Poem" "The Panther" "The Whale"...

The Panther is a 74-line alliterative poem written in the Old English language which uses the image of a panther as an allegory for Christ's death and...

nothing. Working for the common good is the true measure of worth, not vainglory, and winter will be the final arbiter. On account of the ant’s boast of...

nonchalant lifestyle and strongly despised fame and vainglory. In the 29th volume of Wen Xuan, 3 of Zhang's poems were included. Zhang's unique philosophy and...

future, or capacity for embarrassment; parading his self-misery, and vainglory in showing his wounds; "gambling" himself into "emotional and reputational ...

Teacher". The title was later used by Western philosophers (as in the famous poem of Dante) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy. With...