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Thirty Days Hath September. " Thirty Days Hath September ", or " Thirty Days Has September ", [1] is a traditional verse mnemonic used to remember the number of days in the months of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It arose as an oral tradition and exists in many variants. It is currently earliest attested in English, but was and remains ...
This book lists the vocabulary, with definitions, needed to read Catullus' polymetric poems. After a general introduction to Catullus' vocabulary, a separate vocabulary list is given for subsets of 2–3 poems, e.g., poems 6–8 and 9–10. The words in each list is grouped by declension and gender for nouns and by conjugation for verbs ...
Three Little Kittens. " Three Little Kittens " is an English language nursery rhyme, probably with roots in the British folk tradition. The rhyme as published today however is a sophisticated piece usually attributed to American poet Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860). With the passage of time, the poem has been absorbed into the Mother Goose ...
The best love poems offer respite and revivify; they remind me that I, too, love being alive. Soon the lilacs will bloom, but so briefly. Even more reason to seek them out and breathe in deep.
This collection contains 2381 poems in Tamil composed by 473 poets, some 102 anonymous. [13] [14] Of these, 16 poets account for about 50% of the known Sangam literature, [13] with Kapilar – the most prolific poet – alone contributing just little less than 10% of the entire corpus. [15] These poems vary between 3 and 782 lines long. [12]
The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are ...
—Edgar Allan Poe "Not the least obeisance made he" (7:3), as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1884) "The Raven" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by the remains of a fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at [his] chamber door" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". The tapping is repeated ...
The book is part of the collections of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire. [1] A Book of Ryhmes (the word rhymes is misspelt) [2] is one of six miniature books written by the teenage Brontë, forming part of her juvenilia. [1] [3] Dated 17 December 1829, [4] it measures only 3.8 in × 2.5 in (9.7 cm × 6.4 cm).