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A pregnant woman steals parsley from the garden of an ogress (orca) and agrees to give up her child when she is caught. The baby is born and named Petrosinella, after the southern Italian word for parsley (petrosino or petrusino; the modern standard Italian word is prezzemolo). [3]
The poem's references can be overly obscure because of the many specific Cambridgeshire locations (such as "Haslingfield and Coton") and English traditions to which the poem refers. Some, including George Orwell , have seen it as sentimentally nostalgic, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] while others have recognised its satiric and sometimes cruel humour.
Illustration by Beatrix Potter in Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922). The earliest recorded version of this rhyme is in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus published in London in 1784. Like most early versions of the rhyme it does not include the last four lines:
The parsley comes from the garden of a neighboring convent run by an abbess. The girl is seen by three princes, and because of her beauty, they quarrel over her. The resentful abbess curses the girl for the commotion, turning her into a toad and sending her far away.
Parsley, or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum), is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae that is native to Greece, Morocco and the former Yugoslavia. [1] It has been introduced and naturalized in Europe and elsewhere in the world with suitable climates, and is widely cultivated as an herb and a vegetable .
The second time he does so, the fairy catches him. He begs forgiveness and explains his story. The fairy responds by offering him as much parsley as he likes if he will give the child to her. The fairy attends the birth and names the child Persinette, "Little Parsley". She bestows the child with great beauty and takes her home to raise her.
Now We Are Six is a 1927 book of children's poetry by A. A. Milne, with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.It is the second collection of children's poems following Milne's When We Were Very Young, which was first published in 1924.
The Sacred Wood is a collection of 20 essays by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1920.Topics include Eliot's opinions of many literary works and authors, including William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and the poets Dante Alighieri and William Blake.