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During the early solstice celebrations, burning a specific log became part of the festivities. Like the word “yule,” the log became associated with the Christmas season.
Yule was born in Clarendon, New York to Daniel Vining, a farmer, and Lydia Vining. [1] She was educated at a local school and at home by her mother. She began teaching school in Michigan at the age of 15. She attended Albion College and eventually received a degree of Mistress of Science and Arts, an honorary degree then awarded to female ...
The modern English noun Yule descends from Old English ġēol, earlier geoh(h)ol, geh(h)ol, and geóla, sometimes plural. [1] The Old English ġēol or ġēohol and ġēola or ġēoli indicate the 12-day festival of "Yule" (later: "Christmastide"), the latter indicating the month of "Yule", whereby ǣrra ġēola referred to the period before the Yule festival (December) and æftera ġēola ...
When Pound was working on getting his first collection, A Lume Spento, published while in Venice, he kept a notebook commonly known as the San Trovaso notebook that contained drafts of poetry. When he returned to London towards the end of 1908, it was this notebook that he used as the basis of a new poetry collection.
So, some of the poetry on our list is just for small kids to enjoy—the rhymes are light-hearted and fun which means they will probably want to be repeated over and over. Here are our 30 favorite ...
One of Oswald Durand's most famous works, the 1883 Choucoune is a lyrical poem that praises the beauty of a Haitian woman of that nickname. Michel Mauléart Monton, an American-born pianist with a Haitian father and American mother composed music for the poem in 1893, appropriating some French and Caribbean fragments to create his tune.
In 1932, Jóhannes úr Kötlum published his best-loved children's book: Jólin koma (Christmas is Coming – Verse for Children). One of the poems in the book, "The Yuletide-Lads," reintroduced Icelandic society to Yuletide folklore and established what is now considered the canonical thirteen Yuletide-lads or Yule Lads, their personalities and connection to other folkloric characters.
(1899) is the only collection of poems by English-Australian poet W. T. Goodge published in his lifetime. It was published in hardback by the Bulletin in Sydney N.S.W. in 1899 [1] The collection includes 167 poems by the author. [1] A note in the first edition states: "Many of these rhymes appeared in The Bulletin, The Sunday Times, and The ...