OpeningVerse (1986–2002) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in England and the United States. Bred in Kentucky, his sire was the 1977 Epsom and...
The OpeningVerse Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Churchill Downs. A race on turf over a distance of one mile, it is open...
Hokku (発句, lit. "starting verse") is the opening stanza of a Japanese orthodox collaborative linked poem, renga, or of its later derivative, renku (haikai...
"This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around...
Japanese poetry, which evolved in the 17th century from the hokku, or openingverse of a renku. Generally written in a single vertical line, the haiku contains...
Onitsura (1661–1738). Hokku is the first verse of the collaborative haikai or renku, but its position as the openingverse made it the most important, setting...
recorded by Petula Clark, Mantovani and David Whitfield (with the first verse of "Funiculì, Funiculà"). The original 1952 Italian lyrics had the title...
Testament. It is a prison letter, authored by Paul the Apostle (the openingverse also mentions Timothy), to Philemon, a leader in the Colossian church...
alternating chords on a piano. The openingverse lines, both musically and lyrically, were something of a lament. The verse then transitioned into a soaring...
" The following passage, taken from the first two paragraphs of the openingverse of the second epistle, is often quoted by those familiar with Pope's...
Opies, only the first verse of which figures in later editions of their book. Titled "Old Mother Goose and the Golden Egg", this verse prefaced a 15-stanza...
result of these messages, this song was outlawed by many enslavers. The openingverse as published by the Jubilee Singers in 1872: When Israel was in Egypt's...
features leads from both Eddie Kendricks and Dennis Edwards, During the openingverse of "Masterpiece" (1973), and "For Your Love", which is done in a medley...
also an abbreviation of Ragam Thanam Pallavi. It is considered as the openingverse of Varnam. Pallavi in Sanskrit is used as an adjective or a verb with...
imagines himself marrying the girl. The song usually begins with the openingverse: Near Banbridge town, in the County Down, One morning last July Down...
disciples. English translations vary widely in the way they treat the openingverse of this chapter: that ye should not be caused to stumble (American Standard...
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