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The Rainbow Bridge is a meadow where animals wait for their humans to join them, and the bridge that takes them all to Heaven, together. The Rainbow Bridge is the theme of several works written first in 1959, then in the 1980s and 1990s, that speak of an other-worldly place where pets go upon death, eventually to be reunited with their owners.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...
It was written in 1808 in honour of his Landseer dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming bitten and infected. [1] The poem is inscribed on Boatswain's tomb, which is larger than Byron's, at Newstead Abbey, Byron's estate. [2]
It is her fifth volume of poetry. [ 1 ] Like other works by Atwood, The Animals in That Country explores themes relating to human behaviour and celebration of the natural world, with some of the poems expressing an ecocentric perspective and using the difference between the animals of the Old World and the New World to scrutinize issues like ...
"Beau", also known as "I’ll Never Forget a Dog Named Beau", [1] is a poem written by American film and stage actor James Stewart.A tribute to Stewart's deceased pet dog, the poem was first recited on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1981, and later published in the 1989 collection Jimmy Stewart and his Poems.
A dog adopted by the Heffley Family. Frank got the dog to satisfy Greg's wanting of a dog and his feelings over the loss of his pet fish. He (Frank) later gives the dog to the Heffleys' maternal grandmother at the end of the book. Timothy / Timmy / Tim: Mongrel: The Famous Five: Enid Blyton: All three names are found interchangeably. George ...
Catullus 3 is a poem by Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 –c. 54 BCE) that laments the death of a pet sparrow (passer) for which an unnamed girl (puella), possibly Catullus' lover Lesbia, had an affection. Written in hendecasyllabic meter, [1] it is considered to be one of the most famous of Latin poems. [2]
In 1968, the poem was completed by American poet Ogden Nash, who had been asked to finish the work. [1] His contributions were accompanied by illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert and printed together in a large elephant folio format. Harvard University Press published Teapots And Quails, a small book of Lear's poetry that includes "The ...