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1934, Branches Green, poetry (including "Something Told the Wild Geese" [15]) 1934, Susanna B And William C, fiction; 1934, God's Pocket, historical non-fiction; 1935, Time Out Of Mind, fiction; 1936, Fear Is the Thorn, poetry; 1936, First Class Matter: A Comedy in One Act, drama; 1937, To See Ourselves, by Field and her husband Arthur Pederson ...
Many other stories contain geese that lay golden eggs, though certain versions change them for hens or other birds that lay golden eggs. The tale has given rise to the idiom 'killing the goose that lays the golden eggs', which refers to the short-sighted destruction of a valuable resource, or to an unprofitable action motivated by greed.
Satirical print from 1830 depicting a goose lamenting the loss of the Commons to Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, a Duke and King William IV. "The Goose and the Common", also referred to as "Stealing the Common from the Goose", is a poem written by an unknown author that makes a social commentary on the social injustice caused by the privatization of common land during the ...
Lawless wrote nineteen works of fiction, biography, history, nature studies and poetry, many of which were widely read at the time. She is increasingly considered a major fiction writer of the late nineteenth century, and an early modernist innovator. She is often remembered for her Wild Geese poems (1902). Her books were:
Last week in Montana, tens of thousands of geese headed south for the winter were forced to land because of a snowstorm.
The Wild Geese, a conversation between the author and the North Wind, is a melancholic poem on the theme of homesickness. It was set to music as Norlan' Wind and popularised by Angus singer and songmaker Jim Reid, [8] who also set to music other poems by Jacob and those other Angus poets such as Marion Angus and Helen Cruikshank. [9]
Geese are very aware of their home and will protect it no matter what. These little guys are cute, but they do have a reputation for being aggressive. That can work to your advantage. Geese are ...
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