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The Queen Was in the Parlour, Eating Bread and Honey, by Valentine Cameron Prinsep.. The rhyme's origins are uncertain. References have been inferred in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c. 1602), (Twelfth Night 2.3/32–33), where Sir Toby Belch tells a clown: "Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song" and in Beaumont and Fletcher's 1614 play Bonduca, which contains the line "Whoa ...
"Four and Twenty Blackbirds", a book by Australian poet Francis Brabazon (1975) "The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds", a short story by Neil Gaiman from the anthology M Is for Magic (1984) Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds, a book by Mercedes Lackey (1997) Four & Twenty Blackbirds, by Cherie Priest (2000)
Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a 1937 picture book of nursery rhymes collected by Helen Dean Fish and illustrated by Robert Lawson. The book is a collection of nursery rhymes which were considered older when it was published. The book was a recipient of a 1938 Caldecott Honor for its illustrations. [1]
The brand's name is a reference to the traditional English nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence, which includes the lyric "Four and twenty blackbirds / Baked in a pie". [4] Some early logos alluded to this, with 24 blackbirds escaping from a pie and taking flight, although the current logo features only text. [citation needed]
Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917) was a 20th-century Irish poet. From Slane, County Meath, and sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was later also known as a First World War war poet.
Fern Maddie recorded her version of the song in 2022. [20] Nora Brown has also recorded her own version with Band in a Box in 2019. Some musicians recorded completely different versions of the song originating from different sources, including Steeleye Span , [ 21 ] Frankie Armstrong [ 22 ] and Chris Wood / Andy Cutting .
In the earliest prose stories in Britain in the Mabinogi, the Adar Rhiannon; "birds of Rhiannon", are specifically three magical birds, whose song can "wake the dead and lull the living to sleep".
Eavan Aisling Boland [1] (/ iː ˈ v æ n ˈ æ ʃ l ɪ ŋ ˈ b oʊ l ə n d / ee-VAN ASH-ling BOH-lənd; [2] 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.