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The days are long but the years are short. Enjoy every moment. Funny Messages. ... Congratulations on your new baby – we will do something to celebrate in another 18 years.
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"Infant Joy" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was first published as part of his collection Songs of Innocence in 1789 and is the counterpart to "Infant Sorrow", which was published at a later date in Songs of Experience in 1794. Ralph Vaughan Williams set the poem to music in his 1958 song cycle Ten Blake Songs.
This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–288) [2] in 1836 and was later collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-19th century, varying the final lines to "The child that's born on Christmas Day/ Is fair and wise, good and gay."
The Horn Book Magazine referred to it as a "love song": "Snuggle up with your favorite baby and kiss those fingers and toes to both your hearts' content". [8] BookPage Reviews called it "a jewel of a picture book" and wrote: "With minimal text, and sweet illustrations by beloved British artist Helen Oxenbury, it's truly an international treat. ..
In the introduction to a subsequent edition, Follen denied any hand in the poem's composition, but took it under her wing and claimed ownership as the poem passed through various reprints. The poem was first published in the United States in 1843 in Follen's New Nursery Songs for All Good Children. An 1856 American reprint was subtitled "A Cat ...
The verses used today are the first of a longer chapbook history first published in 1764. [1] The character of Simple Simon may have been in circulation much longer, possibly through an Elizabethan chapbook and in a ballad, Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty, from about 1685. [1]
This poem belongs to the Songs of Experience by William Blake. It is the counter poem of "Infant Joy". The poem suggests that childbirth is not always joyful and happy but can bring sorrow and pain. The response of the child itself may be different from that of the child in "Infant Joy" because of the behavior of the parents.