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"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. [citation needed] 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 ...
"Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar" ("Lay of Helgi Hjörvarðsson") is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda, found in the Codex Regius manuscript where it follows Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and precedes Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The portion of text which constitutes the poem is unnamed in the manuscript and may never have been intended to be ...
According to one of the creation accounts, sky was created from the skull of Ymir, the ancestor of all jötnar. N: Arnórr jarlaskáld, Magnúsdrápa 19 the sun heaven-candle heofon-candel: OE: Exodus 115 b the sun heaven's jewel heofones ġim: OE: The Phoenix 183 the sun glory of elves álf röðull
Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2 ] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
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She'd ride down their driveway and drag the board back up to do it again. She'd do it for as long as he'd let her! I've never seen a dog on a one-wheel skateboard though, until I found Greyson.
A riddle is a statement, question, or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the ...
A June 2022 study affirmed that the ability to balance is linked to a longer life, finding that those who failed to stand on one leg for a 10-second balance test were associated with an 84% ...