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Roses Are Red. "Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [2]
The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784), a collection of English nursery rhymes published in London by Joseph Johnson: "The rose is red, the violet's blue, The honey's sweet, and so are you. Thou art my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine: The lot was cast and then I drew,
The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day) is an 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels.Inspired by the strange, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch, [1] it is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400.
Shania Twain, "Still the One". "You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to. You're still the one I want for life." The Pioneer Woman.
Valentine's Day Quotes. “I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.”. — François Coppée. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I'm with you.”. — Elizabeth Barrett ...
On Raglan Road. " On Raglan Road " is a well-known Irish song from a poem written by Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh named after Raglan Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin. [1] In the poem, the speaker recalls, while walking on a "quiet street," a love affair that he had with a much younger woman. Although he knew he would risk being hurt if he initiated a ...
Ode to Joy. " Ode to Joy " (German: "An die Freude" [an diː ˈfʁɔʏdə]) is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller. It was published the following year in the German magazine Thalia. In 1808, a slightly revised version changed two lines of the first stanza and omitted last stanza.
History and origins. The quoted line, "Heart of My Heart", so longed for in the 1926 song, begins the chorus of "The Story of the Rose", written by Andrew Mack (1863–1931) in 1899. [1] Mack was a popular American actor, singer and comedian who reportedly first sang this song in an 1899 show at the Academy of Music in New York City.