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Lyrics and illustration for Lavender's Blue in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters "Lavender's Blue" emerged as a children's song in Songs for the Nursery in 1805 in the form: Lavender blue and Rosemary green, When I am king you shall be queen; Call up my maids at four o'clock,
Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well is Maya Angelou's second volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self ...
"The Lavender Song" ("Das Lila Lied") Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach [1] 1928 "Prove It On Me" Ma Rainey [2] 1929 "If Love Were All" Noël Coward: Written for the operetta Bitter Sweet. [3] 1932 "Mad About the Boy" Noël Coward [2] 1937 "Easy Living" Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra [a] "My Funny Valentine" Rodgers and Hart [5] 1938 ...
Timothy Donnelly's author page at Wave Books [permanent dead link ]; Timothy Donnelly's faculty page at Columbia University; Timothy Donnelly talks about getting "The Cloud Corporation" published in Harper's and "Globus Hystericus" in The Paris Review
"Tom o' Bedlam" is the title of an anonymous poem in the "mad song" genre, written in the voice of a homeless "Bedlamite". The poem was probably composed at the beginning of the 17th century. In How to Read and Why Harold Bloom called it "the greatest anonymous lyric in the [English] language." [1]
Herold's text is in prose, and it lacks the melancholic tone of the Spanish poem. E.g.: If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be crazier. I would be less hygienic.
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And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.