Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods, Dionysus, Helios, Asclepius.
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Paeans were sung at the festivals of Apollo (especially the Hyacinthia), at banquets, and later even at public funerals.
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In 1804, the national poet of Ireland, Thomas Moore, visited Cohoes and wrote a paean to the waterfall's beauty: "Lines Written at the Cohos, or Falls of the Mohawk River."
The Guardian described her performance in Flora the Red Menace as: "stunning: barely off the stage, she drives the production forward with unaffected energy, her acting matching the range of her singing, from the vigorous paean to individualism I Am Me to the heart-break of It's a Quiet Thing." and gave the production their highest rating.
He was best known for the songs "Some Coward Closed the Old Howard," a humorous paean to Boston's famous vaudeville house The Old Howard, and "Vote Early and Often for Curley," a reelection campaign song for Boston Mayor James Michael Curley.
He was cited for that role in poet Marianne Moore's paean to the 1955 champions, Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese.
Tracks include a paean to cheese in all its forms, with a sub-text of the global power struggle, and the quasi-nonsensical title number, whose lyric is rather pointed, in similar vein to John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus".
The song is a paean to Marlene Dietrich, whom Dussault famously refers to as "a silhouette in Sexyrama" at one point in the lyrics, before comparing her appearance to that of the star and concluding that she will never live up to the standards of her idol.
He finished second to Saronicos in the Henry II Stakes at Sandown Racecourse, second to Paean on very soft ground in the Ascot Gold Cup and fifth in the Prix Kergorlay.