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"After Blenheim" is an anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704), with the questions of two small children about a skull one of them has found. Their grandfather, an old man, tells them of burned homes, civilian casualties, and rotting corpses ...
The poem is first recorded in The Child's Song Book published in 1830. It's Raining, It's Pouring: United States 1912 [53] The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in "The Little Mother Goose", published in the United States in 1912. Jack Sprat: England 1639 [54] First appearance in John Clarke's collection of sayings. Kookaburra
Even its indentations are irregular, not following its own rhyme scheme. Much of the second half of the poem is dedicated to funeral rituals suffered by those families deeply affected by the First World War. The poem does this by following the sorrow of common soldiers in trench warfare, perhaps the battle of the Somme, or Passchendaele.
Pages in category "Films based on nursery rhymes" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I.
The nursery rhyme has been recreated by many other edutainment YouTube channels targeting young children. [6] As of 20 August 2020, a video containing the song, misspelt as "Johny" and uploaded to YouTube by Loo Loo Kids in 2016, [ 1 ] has more than 6.6 billion views, making it the third-most-viewed video on the site , as well as the most ...
Drummer Hoff is an illustrated children's book by Barbara and Ed Emberley.Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for the book's illustrations. [1] Written by Barbara Emberley, it tells a cumulative tale of seven soldiers who build a cannon named "Sultan", and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off, with the book exploding into a blast of colors.
"Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from their day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with many such rhymes, there are several variants. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526.
Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet". [1] Like the others in the cycle, is intended for four baritone voices.