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In 1971 Acorn was the subject of a documentary, Milton Acorn: The People’s Poet, which was aired on the CBC program Thirty Minutes. [19] The National Film Board of Canada produced two films on Acorn's life and works. The first is entitled In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet, and came out in 1984.
I had a little nut tree, Nothing would it bear, But a silver nutmeg And a golden pear. The King of Spain's daughter Came to visit me, And all for the sake Of my little nut tree. Her dress was made of crimson, Jet black was her hair, She asked me for my nutmeg And my golden pear. I said, "So fair a princess Never did I see, I'll give you all the ...
The Acorn and the Pumpkin, in French Le gland et la citrouille, is one of La Fontaine's Fables, published in his second volume (IX.4) in 1679. In English especially, new versions of the story were written to support the teleological argument for creation favoured by English thinkers from the end of the 17th century onwards.
Hannah Flagg Gould (September 3, 1789 – September 5, 1865) was a 19th-century American poet. Her father had been a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and after her mother's death, she became his constant companion, which accounts for the patriotism of her earlier verses. [1]
William Hughes Mearns (1875–1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet.A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mearns was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920.
"I'm a Little Teapot" is an American novelty song describing the heating and pouring of a teapot or a whistling tea kettle. The song was originally written by George Harry Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley and published in 1939. [1] By 1941, a Newsweek article referred to the song as "the next inane novelty song to sweep the country". [2]
I'm a little teapot, Short and stout, Here is my handle (one hand on hip), Here is my spout (other arm out with elbow and wrist bent), When I get all steamed up*, Hear me shout*, Tip me over and pour me out! (lean over toward spout) Second verse: I'm a special teapot, Yes, it's true, Here's an example of what I can do,
Dance to your Daddy, my little man Thou shalt have a fishy on a little dishy, Dance to your Daddy, my little laddie Thou shalt have a fishy when the boat comes in. Dance to your Daddy, my little laddie Dance to your Daddy, my little man Second verse; Here's thy mother humming, When thou art a young boy, you must sing and play, Like a canny woman;