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The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England "Do not stand by my grave and weep" is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem "Immortality", written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
Hush you bye, Don't you cry Go to sleep-y, my little ba - by. When you wake, you shall have All the pretty lit-tle hor-ses Blacks and bays, Dap-ples and grays, Coach----- and six-a lit-tle hor - ses. Hush you bye, Don't you cry, Go to sleep-y lit-tle ba - by When you wake, you'll have sweet cake, and All the pret-ty lit-tle hor-ses
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there. "Now, don't you go till I come," he said, "And don't you make any noise!" So, toddling off to his trundle-bed, He dreamed of the pretty toys; And, as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue Oh! the years are many, the years are long,
"The Little Girl Lost" is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. According to scholar, Grevel Lindop, this poem represents Blake's pattern of the transition between "the spontaneous, imaginative Innocence of childhood" to the "complex and mature (but also more dangerous) adult state of ...
Hush, Little Baby" is a traditional lullaby, thought to have been written in the Southern United States. The lyrics are from the point of view of a parent trying to appease an upset child by promising to give them a gift.
Inspired by Carter's "very empowered women," and characters' ability to "defy archetypes," her writing is brimming with subverted fairy tale tropes. They may not directly comment on the Grimms' approach to storytelling – there aren't straw-spinning damsels or demanding prince-frogs populating her pages. Instead, she invents her own ...
The Grinch. The Grinch can't steal our Christmas spirit, but he sure can deliver laughs. In the 2018 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children's storybook, Benedict Cumberbatch brings the mean ol ...
In the days immediately after the service, there was frantic correspondence and speculation about the poem's possible provenance. "Systems crashed and telephone lines were blocked at the Times," reported columnist Philip Howard, and the lines were attributed variously to Immanuel Kant, Joyce Grenfell and nameless Native Americans. "Anon" seemed ...