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  2. Simple Simon (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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    Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale; All the water he had got, Was in his mother's pail. Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle. [1] He went for water in a sieve But soon it all fell through And now poor Simple Simon Bids you all adieu! [2]

  3. Parable of the Sunfish - Wikipedia

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    As an example, Pound relates what might happen if a European is asked to define "red". After the initial response that red is a color, Pound imagines asking for a definition of color and having it described in terms of vibration, with vibration then defined in terms of energy, and that successive abstractions eventually reach a level where ...

  4. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Poem by Ujō Noguchi, a basis on factual events is disputed. Alphabet Song: Several other titles... [c] United States 1835 [14] The melody in this format was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee. Alouette: Canada: 1870 [15] Mentioned in "A Pocket Song Book for the Use of Students and Graduates of McGill Colle ...

  5. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish - Wikipedia

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    The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (Russian: «Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке», romanized: Skazka o rybake i rybke) is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, published 1835. The tale is about a fisherman who manages to catch a "Golden Fish" which promises to fulfill any wish of his in exchange for its freedom.

  6. The Fisherman and his Flute - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, it was translated as bagpipe by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, in her rendering of his poem. [ 5 ] La Fontaine had made of the story an artificial pastoral in which Tircis tried to charm the fishes to the hook of the shepherdess Annette but did not succeed until he used a net to catch them.

  7. Children's poetry - Wikipedia

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    The oldest works of children's poetry, such as Zulu imilolozelo, are part of cultural oral traditions. [2] In China, the Tang dynasty became known as the Golden Age of Chinese poetry with the invention of the movable type. [3] Some poets chose to write poems specifically for children, often to teach moral lessons.

  8. The Mersey Sound (anthology) - Wikipedia

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    The cross-reference is overt on occasion. McGough has a six-line poem, "Vinegar", where he compares himself to a priest buying fish and chips, thinking it would be nice "to buy supper for two". Henri includes "Poem for Roger McGough", which describes a nun similarly thinking what it would be like to "buy groceries for two" in a supermarket.

  9. The Heron and the Fish - Wikipedia

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    It passed up several small fish and ended up going hungry when the fish moved to cooler water, out of the heron's reach". [12] The telling too has travelled some distance away from the lakeside heron described in the Opusculum fabularum. Other versions for children claim Aesop as original author and spin out the detail of the original pithy fable.