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I met a bear Out in the woods Oh way out there He looked at me I looked at him He sized up me I sized up him He said to me Why don't you run I see you ain't Got any gun I said to him That's a good idea So come on feet Away from here And so I ran Away from there But right behind Me was that bear And then I see Ahead of me A great big tree Oh ...
Ray Young Bear (born 1950 in Marshalltown, Iowa) is a Meskwaki poet and novelist. He was raised on the Meskwaki Tribal Settlement in Tama County, Iowa . [ 1 ] He writes about contemporary Native Americans in English and in Meskwaki .
The 38th poem in the book, "Teddy Bear", that originally appeared in Punch magazine in February 1924, was the first appearance of the famous character Winnie-the-Pooh, first named "Mr. Edward Bear" by Christopher Robin Milne. [2]
The poem is first recorded in The Child's Song Book published in 1830. It's Raining, It's Pouring: United States 1912 [53] The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in "The Little Mother Goose", published in the United States in 1912. Jack Sprat: England 1639 [54] First appearance in John Clarke's collection of sayings. Kookaburra
The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s. [2] Since teddy bears did not come into vogue until the twentieth century it is likely to be fairly recent in its current form, but Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there": [2]
Archibald Ormsby-Gore, better known as Archie, was the teddy-bear of English poet laureate John Betjeman. Together with a toy elephant known as Jumbo , he was a lifelong companion of Betjeman's. Betjeman brought his bear with him when he went to university at Oxford in the 1920s, and as a result Archie became the model for Aloysius , Sebastian ...
Isabel Galleymore (born 1988 [2] [3]) is a British poet and academic.In 2017, she was co-winner of the Eric Gregory Award.Galleymore's first collection, Significant Other, won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020.
The Preacher and the Bear cover "The Preacher and the Bear" is an American popular song, originally a "coon song". The lyrics recount the story of a church pastor who appeals to God after being treed by a grizzly bear while out hunting on the Sabbath. [1] He falls out of the tree and has to fight the bear. [2] Various versions have been ...