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"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. [citation needed] The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy ...
The oldest children's songs for which records exist are lullabies, intended to help a child fall asleep.Lullabies can be found in every human culture. [4] The English term lullaby is thought to come from "lu, lu" or "la la" sounds made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and "by by" or "bye bye", either another lulling sound or a term for a good night. [5]
Another notable work of early children's poetry is John Bunyan's A Book for Boys and Girls, first published in 1686, and later abridged and re-published as Divine Emblems. [1] It consists of short poems about common, everyday subjects, each in rhyme, with a Christian moral. [5] Mother Goose riding
In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
"Sleep and Poetry" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats.It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. [citation needed] It is often cited [by whom?] as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic, [clarification needed] such as: "First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora ...
John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
Poems sometimes leap to life and race down the page as fast as a pen can chase them. More often, though, they proceed at a more deliberate pace. And a lot of them don’t set out to be a poem in ...
Vernon Watkins Selected Verse Translations with an Essay on the Translation of Poetry (1977) The Ballad of the Outer Dark and Other Poems (1979, Enitharmon Press) The Breaking of the Wave (1979, Golgonooza Press) The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins (1986) - reprinted as paperback Golgonooza Press, 2000 and 2005 ISBN 0-903880-73-3