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"The King's Breakfast" is a poem by A. A. Milne, first published in When We Were Very Young (1924). It is about "a monarch who sulks when the cow refuses to provide milk." [1] Damon Young calls it a "witty portrait of moping". [1] The poem was made into a film in 1963. The poem features an Alderney cow, a breed which became extinct in the 1940s.
Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown was a speech given by Henry David Thoreau on December 2, 1859, the day of John Brown's execution. Thoreau gave a few brief remarks of his own, read poetry by Sir Walter Raleigh ("The Soul's Errand"), William Collins ("How Sleep the Brave"), Friedrich Schiller (excerpts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's translation of "The Death of Wallenstein"), William ...
"Michael" is a pastoral poem, written by William Wordsworth and first published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, a series of poems that were said to have begun the English Romantic movement in literature. [1] The poem is one of Wordsworth's best-known poems and the subject of much critical literature. [1]
He was born in 1715 at Rothbury, Northumberland, the son of the Rev. John Brown (1677–1763), vicar of Wigton from that year, and his wife Eleanor Troutbeck, née Potts. . He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1732, graduating B.A. 1736, and M.A. 1739; he became D.D. in 17
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The title is a quotation from a similarly titled poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, slightly misquoting a poem by William Wordsworth called "My Heart Leaps Up". CBS Records released The Rock Machine Turns You On, the first budget sampler LP, in the UK in 1968. The song "My Days Are Numbered" was included as Side Two track one on the album and ...
Chad Michael Murray’s Dating History: From Sophia Bush to Sarah Roemer Murray, who played Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill for six seasons, shot to fame after the WB/CW show premiered in 2003.
The last six months of my no-sugar resolution have been amazing, to say the least. There are times when I feel like giving in to the occasional cravings, but then I think about my skin and my ...