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We have come up with a list of the best Christmas poems for families to reflect on this season. Of course, if you are a child, Christmas is more about receiving gifts, eating treats and visiting ...
The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St ...
Don't get left behind this Christmas.
"The Double Nine" (采桑子·重阳) is a poem written by Mao Zedong in 1929. Double Ninth Festival, also called Chong Yang, is an important holiday in China.During this holiday, Chinese people usually go to the top of mountains, looking far away, as a ritual of expecting those family members who are travelling outside to come back home sooner.
On his way back from Turkey to the Morea, on 17 July 1810, he stayed at Makri's house for another ten days, during which time he offered her £500 for her daughter. [3] Byron never met Teresa again. She eventually married James Black (1803–1868) and died impoverished in 1875 in Athens, Greece. [4]
Songs of Travel is a song cycle of nine songs originally written for baritone voice composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with poems drawn from the Robert Louis Stevenson collection Songs of Travel and Other Verses. A complete performance of the entire cycle lasts between 20 and 24 minutes. They were originally written for voice and piano.
The Merry Month of May" is a poem by Thomas Dekker (c. 1572–1632), an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer. "The Merry Month of May" is a part of Dekker's play, The Shoemaker's Holiday, first performed in 1599. In Ernest Rhys's 1887 publication of Dekker's work, he titled the poem The First Three-Men's Song.
Becoming Billie Holiday is a 2008 book of poetry for young readers by American poet and author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Floyd Cooper, originally published by Wordsong. It won an honorary Coretta Scott King Award in 2009.