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"Jenny kiss'd Me" (original title: Rondeau) is a poem by the English essayist Leigh Hunt. It was first published in November 1838 by the Monthly Chronicle. The poem — per its original title, a rondeau — was inspired by Jane Welsh, the wife of Thomas Carlyle.
Rexford made a living by writing verse and flower and garden articles for magazines. When he was 18, he wrote and sold for $3 some verses entitled “Growing Old.” Later, H. P. Danks, composer of the music for “Silver Threads,” wrote to him requesting words for a song. Rexford dug into his scrapbook and revised “Growing Old.”
Poem. Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
Oranges and Lemons. " Oranges and Lemons " is a traditional English nursery rhyme, folksong, and singing game which refers to the bells of several churches, all within or close to the City of London. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No 13190. The earliest known printed version appeared c. 1744.
December 8, 1915. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted: They fell with their faces to the foe. (9–12) They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the ...
"Grow Old with Me" is at times misattributed as Lennon's "last" or "final" song. This is inaccurate. A handwritten lyric sheet for the song is dated July 5, 1980. Lennon is known to have written other songs after that date. Among them, "Real Love" has a handwritten lyric sheet dated July 9, 1980 and "Cleanup Time" is dated July 20. The confusion might be due to the album liner notes, as Ono ...
The poem is recited in the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine. DI Jack Frost recites the first and last paragraph of the poem in A Touch of Frost, episode Mind Games (season 14, episode 1). Lazarus Long paraphrases the song in Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children after meeting a representative of the aliens known as The Little People.