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She wrote in various media. Her first book of poetry, Riddym Ravings, was published in 1988 by the Race Today Collective, [7] with the title poem, also known as "The Mad Woman's Poem", being described by Linton Kwesi Johnson as "a classic in contemporary Caribbean poetry" [13] and featuring in Margaret Busby's 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa ...
In this version the names of the birds were Jack and Gill: There were two blackbirds Sat upon a hill, The one was nam'd Jack, The other nam'd Gill; Fly away Jack, Fly away Gill, Come again Jack, Come again Gill. [1] These names seem to have been replaced with the apostles Peter and Paul in the 19th century. [1]
Anthony Horowitz used the rhyme as the organising scheme for the story-within-a-story in his 2016 novel Magpie Murders and in the subsequent television adaptation of the same name. [17] The nursery rhyme's name was used for a book written by Mary Downing Hahn, One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story. The book additionally contains references to the ...
"The Sparrows Nest" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1801.It was first published in the collection Poems in Two Volumes in 1807.. The poem is a moving tribute to Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, recalling their early childhood together in Cockermouth before they were separated following their mother's death in 1778 when he was barely eight years old.
The name ladybird contains a reference to Mary, mother of Jesus, often referred to as Our Lady, a convention that occurs in other European cultures where the insect is similarly addressed. In Germany it is the Marienkäfer, where a nursery rhyme runs “Marybug, fly away, your house is on fire, your wee mother weeps” ( Marienkäferchen ...
"Why cast ye back upon the Gallic shore," Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 1822 After landing—the Valley of Dover, November 1820 (XXXVI) 1821–1822 "Where be the noisy followers of the game" Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 1822 At Dover (XXXVII) 1821–1822 "From the Pier's head, musing, and with increase"
"The Mag-pye alone, of all the Birds, had the Art of building a Nest, the Form of which was with a covering over Head, and only a small Hole to creep out at.—The rest of the Birds, being without Houses, desired the Pye to teach them how to build one.—A Day is appointed, and they all meet.—The Pye then says, "You must lay two Sticks across ...
One of Oswald Durand's most famous works, the 1883 Choucoune is a lyrical poem that praises the beauty of a Haitian woman of that nickname. Michel Mauléart Monton, an American-born pianist with a Haitian father and American mother composed music for the poem in 1893, appropriating some French and Caribbean fragments to create his tune.