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The Acorn and the Pumpkin, in French Le gland et la citrouille, is one of La Fontaine's Fables, published in his second volume (IX.4) in 1679. In English especially, new versions of the story were written to support the teleological argument for creation favoured by English thinkers from the end of the 17th century onwards.
In 1987, the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award was established in his memory by Ted Plantos.It is presented annually to an outstanding "people's poet." The award was initially [18] $250 (since raised to $500) and a medallion, modelled after the one given to Milton Acorn.
An acorn falls upon Chicken-licken's bald pate: The sky had fallen To tell the king Fox-lox takes them to his hole, then he and his young ones eat them Thorpe, 1853 (translation of Thiele 1823) The Little Chicken Kluk and His Companions Chicken Kluk Henny Penny Cocky Locky Ducky Lucky Goosy Poosy Foxy Coxy A nut falls on Chicken Kluk's back
Hannah Flagg Gould (September 3, 1789 – September 5, 1865) was a 19th-century American poet. Her father had been a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and after her mother's death, she became his constant companion, which accounts for the patriotism of her earlier verses. [1]
The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." [4]James Orchard Halliwell, in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842), notes that the third line read "When the wind ceases the cradle will fall" in the earlier Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) and himself records "When the bough bends" in the second ...
Powerful nature quotes “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” ― Henry David Thoreau “The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth.”
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Her second novel, Little Fortress, was published by Wolsak & Wynn in fall 2019. [8] As well as full collections of poetry, Rosnau has published two limited edition chapbooks, Getaway Girl (Greenboathouse Books, 2002) and This Glossy Animal (Baseline Press, 2013). In 2023, she was the recipient of the Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. [9]