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"Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection Continual Dew. The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, [1] and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II. [2]
A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay: 1877-?? More Poetic Gems: 1962: River Tay: A Humble Heroine: 1899-09: More Poetic Gems: 1962: Agnes Reston: A New Temperance Poem, in Memory of my Departed Parents: 1885-10: Last Poetic Gems: 1968 A New Year's Resolution to Leave Dundee: 1893-01: Last Poetic Gems: 1968 A Requisition To The Queen: 1877-09 ...
A graminivore is a herbivorous animal that feeds primarily on grass, [1] specifically "true" grasses, plants of the family Poaceae (also known as Graminae). Graminivory is a form of grazing . These herbivorous animals have digestive systems that are adapted to digest large amounts of cellulose , which is abundant in fibrous plant matter and ...
The first stanza of the poem is read by Ian Anderson in the beginning of the 2007 remaster of "One Brown Mouse" by Jethro Tull. Anderson adds the line "But a mouse is a mouse, for all that" at the end of the stanza, which is a reference to another of Burns's songs, " Is There for Honest Poverty ", commonly known as "A Man's a Man for A' That".
The poem was not included in Poe's second poetry collection, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, and was never re-printed during his lifetime. "Evening Star" was adapted by choral composer Jonathan Adams into his Three Songs from Edgar Allan Poe in 1993.
"The Twa Corbies", illustration by Arthur Rackham for Some British Ballads "The Three Ravens" (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English folk ballad, printed in the songbook Melismata [1] compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611, but the song is possibly older than that.
Is the "Guess I'll go eat worms" and American variant? I've (UK) only ever heard the garden line. The Polly Wolly Doodle thing needs to be read with care, it says that they can't find a midi of the corect tume and it is nearly P.W.D. but recommend NOT playing the midi if you already know the correct tune. -- SGBailey 20:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
The poems are arranged roughly chronologically, not by date of writing but by the date to which each poem applies, something Armitage states could not be precise, as some apply to a range of dates. The endpapers are maps of parts of Marsden at differing scales, keyed to the poems by page numbers in red attached to each poem's location, such as ...