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  2. Parable of the Sunfish - Wikipedia

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    Agassiz finally tells the student to "look at the fish" and "[a]t the end of three weeks the fish was in an advanced state of decomposition, but the student knew something about it." [1]: 18 The text of the parable itself spans 131 words over sixteen lines and is often reproduced in full when cited. [2] [3] [4]

  3. The Sea-Bell - Wikipedia

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    The work is based on an earlier poem entitled "Looney", which Tolkien had published in The Oxford Magazine in 1934. [2] [3] The 1962 version of the poem is considerably darker than, and twice as long as, the earlier version. Tolkien was initially reluctant to include the work in the collection, feeling that it was out of keeping with the other ...

  4. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Composed in 1777 by English composer Thomas Arne. Akai Kutsu: Akai Kutsu (赤い靴, 'Red Shoes') Japan: 1922: Poem by Ujō Noguchi, a basis on factual events is disputed. Alphabet Song: Several other titles... [c] United States 1835 [14] The melody in this format was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee. Alouette ...

  5. The Fish (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Fish is a 1918 poem by the American poet Marianne Moore.The poem was published in the August 1918 issue of The Egoist.Moore's biographer, Linda Leavell, has described "The Fish" as "...one of Moore's best-loved and most mystifying poems" and that it is "Admired for its imagery and technical proficiency". [1]

  6. List of long poems in English - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...

  7. The Mersey Sound (anthology) - Wikipedia

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    The Mersey Sound is an anthology of poems by Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri first published in 1967, when it launched the poets into "considerable acclaim and critical fame". [1] It went on to sell over 500,000 copies, becoming one of the bestselling poetry anthologies of all time.

  8. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish - Wikipedia

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    The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (Russian: «Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке», romanized: Skazka o rybake i rybke) is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, published 1835. The tale is about a fisherman who manages to catch a "Golden Fish" which promises to fulfill any wish of his in exchange for its freedom.

  9. The Heron and the Fish - Wikipedia

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    It passed up several small fish and ended up going hungry when the fish moved to cooler water, out of the heron's reach". [12] The telling too has travelled some distance away from the lakeside heron described in the Opusculum fabularum. Other versions for children claim Aesop as original author and spin out the detail of the original pithy fable.