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English. " Wynken, Blynken, and Nod " is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy child's ...
Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed and he became well known for his light-hearted poems for children, among the most famous of which are "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "The Duel" (which is perhaps better known as "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat"). Equally famous is his poem about the death of a child, "Little Boy Blue".
The Rainbow Bridge is the theme of several works written first in 1959, then in the 1980s and 1990s, that speak of an other-worldly place where pets go upon death, eventually to be reunited with their owners. One is a short story whose original creator was long uncertain. The other is a six-stanza poem of rhyming pentameter couplets, created by ...
A Landseer dog, the breed Byron eulogized, painted by Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873. " Epitaph to a Dog " (also sometimes referred to as " Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog ") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Landseer dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies.
ISBN. 978-0-517-57382-2. "Beau", also known as "I’ll Never Forget a Dog Named Beau", [1] is a poem written by American film and stage actor James Stewart. A tribute to Stewart's deceased pet dog, the poem was first recited on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1981, and later published in the 1989 collection Jimmy Stewart and his ...
Jane Taylor (23 September 1783 – 13 April 1824) was an English poet and novelist best known for the lyrics of the widely known "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". [1] The sisters Jane and Ann Taylor and their authorship of various works have often been confused, partly because their early ones were published together.
The Tale of Custard the Dragon. The Tale of Custard the Dragon is a poem for children written by Ogden Nash. [ 1 ] A picture book of the 1936 poem with illustrations by Lynn M. Munsinger was published in 1995. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The poem has been described as "probably his most famous poem for kids". [ 4 ] In 1959, it inspired Leonard Lipton to write a ...
Print. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters ...