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Sweet and Low" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1849, [ 1 ] Tennyson sent two versions of the poem to Emily Sellwood in November, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] asking her to select which one to include in the revised 1850 edition of The Princess , [ 4 ] where it intercalates canto II and III.
A great big merry Christmas tree! – unknown. 18. Peppermint Stick. I took a lick Of a peppermint stick And oh it tasted yummy! It used to be On the Christmas tree But now it’s in my tummy ...
Studwell describes the poem as "simple, direct and sincere" and notes that it is a rare example of a carol which has overcome the disadvantage of "not having a tune (or two or three) which has caught the imagination of holiday audiences." [7] Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine, Love was born at Christmas,
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language.
Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin Britten.
"Trees" is a poem of twelve lines in strict iambic tetrameter. The eleventh, or penultimate, line inverts the first foot, so that it contains the same number of syllables, but the first two are a trochee. The poem's rhyme scheme is rhyming couplets rendered AA BB CC DD EE AA. [20]
A final photo has emerged of North Carolina grandparents on the roof of their home, surrounded by floodwaters, minutes before they drowned due to Hurricane Helene. Jessica Drye Turner’s family ...
The poem was included in the 1789 collection of Dafydd's works, Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym , [4] and was attributed to Dafydd in a selection of cywyddau edited by Ifor Williams and Thomas Roberts in 1914, [7] but in the mid-20th century Thomas Parry excluded it from his edition, citing the poem's imperfect cynghanedd (the strict alliteration ...