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Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet". [1] Like the others in the cycle, is intended for four baritone voices.
The rhyme was first printed in 1820 by James Hogg in Jacobite Reliques. Apple Pie ABC: United Kingdom 1871 [7] Edward Lear made fun of the original rhyme in his nonsense parody "A was once an apple pie". Akka bakka bonka rakka: Norway: 1901 [8] Nora Kobberstad's Norsk Lekebok (Book of Norwegian Games). [8] All The Pretty Little Horses
Passages from this poem are recited in Soldier Blue (1970) in lieu of a prayer after a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Lines from the poem is quoted at the end of When The Wind Blows (1982). The poem inspired the Iron Maiden song "The Trooper" (1983). [13] The second stanza of this poem is recited an episode of Top Gear (2014). [14]
Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a well-known nursery rhyme. A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. [1]
"i sing of Olaf" (sometimes referred to as "i sing of Olaf glad and big") is a poem by E.E. Cummings.It first appeared in Cummings' 1931 collection ViVa.It depicts the life of Olaf, a conscientious objector and pacifist during the First World War who is tortured by the United States Army but nonetheless "will not kiss your fucking flag", and subsequently dies in prison.
Drummer Hoff is an illustrated children's book by Barbara and Ed Emberley.Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for the book's illustrations. [1] Written by Barbara Emberley, it tells a cumulative tale of seven soldiers who build a cannon named "Sultan", and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off, with the book exploding into a blast of colors.
The title and subject of the poem refer to the scene in the 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. The poem is noted for being an anagrammatic poem – in this case, a 14-line rhyming sonnet in which every line is an anagram of the title.
Rhyme Stew is a 1989 collection of poems for children by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake. [1] In a sense it is a more adult version of Revolting Rhymes (1982). [ 2 ] [ 3 ]