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Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting [1]) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia.
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron (IV, 5). It tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend to marry her to "some high noble and his olive trees", but who falls for Lorenzo, one of her brothers' employees.
In 1901 he published Phaëthon, containing three long narrative poems set in classical antiquity, and 1910 saw the appearance of his last volume, The Dream of Love: A Mystery. Abbey's collected works, Poems of Henry Abbey, first appeared in 1879, published by D. Appleton. This book was republished—enlarged from 148 to 256 pages—at Abbey's ...
Kate Louise Brown (May 8, 1857 [1] – December 31, 1921) was a children's educator and author who wrote 17 works in a total of 41 publications, [2] in addition to poems, songs, and magazine articles. [2] She is best known for the books, The Plant Baby and Its Friends, Little People, Alice and Tom, and Stories in Songs. [1]
"Lycidas" (/ ˈ l ɪ s ɪ d ə s /) is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, Justa Edouardo King Naufrago , dedicated to the memory of Edward King , a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637.
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets , he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns .
Hunt had drawn an illustration of the poem in 1848, shortly after the foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Still, he had not developed it into a completed painting. The drawing portrayed a very different scene, depicting Lorenzo as a clerk at work while Isabella's brothers study their accounts and order around underlings.
The Seeds of Love, sung by the gardener John England, was the first folk song Cecil Sharp ever collected while he was staying with Charles Marson, vicar of Hambridge, Somerset, England, in 1903. [3] Maud Karpeles wrote about this occasion in her 1967 autobiography: