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The nine-stanza poem appeared in an 1827 issue of Blackwood's Magazine. [17] Titled "To The Lady Bird", the first stanza reads Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home, The field mouse is gone to her nest, The daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes And the birds and the bees are at rest
Mrs. Tittlemouse sends the uninvited ladybird off with a variant of the traditional nursery rhyme Ladybird Ladybird: "Your house is on fire, Mother Ladybird! Fly away home to your children!". She then runs into a spider who asks her: "Beg pardon, is this not Miss Muffet's?", a reference to the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet.
The original English nursery rhymes that correspond to the numbered poems in Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames are as follows: [3] Humpty Dumpty; Old King Cole; Hey Diddle Diddle; Old Mother Hubbard; There Was a Little Man and He Had a Little Gun; Hickory Dickory Dock; Jack Sprat; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; There Was a Crooked Man; Little Miss ...
Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison describes something unexpected he found after checking into a room with a fly in it.
Coccinellids have been popularly featured in poems and nursery rhymes, the most ... including: [93] Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Thy house is on fire, thy ...
Wait for Me! or Returning Home from School: private collection. Listed at Bridgeman Art Library. [3] When the Heart Is Young: oil on canvas, public collection. [4] Windfalls: oil on canvas, private collection. Listed at Bridgeman Art Library. [3] [4] Young girl: oil on canvas, private collection. [4] Young Girl Fixing Her Hair: Young Girl with ...
Well Loved Tales was a series of illustrated re-tellings of fairy tales and other traditional stories published by Ladybird between 1964 and the early 1990s. The books were labelled as "easy reading" and were graded depending on such aspects as their length, complexity and vocabulary.
Editor’s Note: For his second inauguration, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asked state Poet Laureate Silas House to write a poem. House wrote “Those Who Carry Us” and read it at the inauguration ...