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The Corpus Christi Carol or Falcon Carol [1] is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first written down by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill between 1504 and 1536. [2] The original writer of the carol remains anonymous .
A farmer sees a snake emerge from a mound in his field and brings it food as an offering. In return it leaves a gold coin in the bowl. In a development reminiscent of the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs, the man's son believes he will find a treasure hoard in the snake's mound and tries to kill it, but loses his life instead. When the man comes ...
There is no consistency of titling. Greek sources make the father a farmer (Γεωργὸς), while Osius calls him a peasant (rusticus). Caxton's description is labourer, as is La Fontaine's, although the French laboureur has the meaning of an independent husbandman, the term used by Samuel Croxall. The nature of the ground cultivated differs ...
The Farmer's Boy (1800) Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs (1802) Robert Bloomfield (3 December 1766 – 19 August 1823) was an English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck , Mary Collier and John Clare .
In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "rebuffed the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine epiphany. Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote". [2]
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Max Schachter read a free verse poem written by his 14-year-old son, Alex, one of the 17 victims in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, during his son's eulogy.
Max Schachter lost his 14-year-old son Alex in the 2018 Valentine Day’s shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Five years after the horrific carnage that claimed ...