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Cards in each mailbox, angel, manger, star and lamb, as the rural carrier, driving the snowy roads, hears from her bundles the plaintive bleating of sheep, the shuffle of sandals, the clopping of ...
Les Contenances de la Table, published in 1487, is a French example; [1] The Babee's Boke and Queen Elizabethe's Academy are both English examples, printed in the 1500s. [ 5 ] The first children's book printed in the New World was John Cotton 's Milk for Babes, Drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments, Chiefly for the Spiritual Nourishment ...
In medieval times, girls were named during shavua habat (lit. 'week of the daughter'). [ clarification needed ] In early German Jewish communities, a baby naming ceremony was developed for both girls and boys called a Hollekreisch [ 27 ] (possibly meaning 'secular shout', [ 28 ] or relating to the mythical Frau Holle [ 8 ] ), in which the ...
A Bush Christening is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 16 December 1893 (under its original title of "The Christening of Maginnis Magee"), [ 1 ] the Christmas issue of that publication. [ 2 ]
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), American mill girl, contributor to Lowell Offering, publishing four books of poetry; Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), American poet and abolitionist; Eliza F. Morris (1821–1874), English hymnwriter; Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet; Emma Tatham (1829–1855), English poet widely admired in ...
Ellen Johnston known as "The Factory Girl" (c.1835 – April 12, 1874) was a Scottish power-loom weaver and poet. She is known because of her autobiography and later reevaluations of her working class poetry.
The first few lines of the poem in Peniarth MS 54, a manuscript dating from c. 1480. The poem's theme, Dafydd's habitual failure in love, is a very common one in his work. As the novelist and scholar Gwyn Jones wrote: No lover in any language, and certainly no poet, has confessed to missing the mark more often than Dafydd ap Gwilym.
The ideas of both the German Reformation and Counter-Reformation stimulated hymn and religious poetry writing among both Catholics and Protestants, e.g. the Lutheran hymns of Martin Luther, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, and Paul Gerhardt (oft used in the chorales of Johann Sebastian Bach), the Calvinist hymns of Gerhard Tersteegen, and the ...