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"The Three Ravens" (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English folk ballad, printed in the songbook Melismata [1] compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611, but the song is possibly older than that. Newer versions (with different music) were recorded up through the 19th century.
The Pet-lamb 1800 A Pastoral "The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. 1800 I 1800 "It was an April morning, fresh and clear" Poems on the Naming of Places 1800 II 1800 To Joanna "Amid the smoke of cities did you pass" Poems on the Naming of Places 1800 III 1800
Poems on Various Subjects (1796) was the first collection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including also a few sonnets by Charles Lamb.A second edition in 1797 added many more poems by Lamb and by Charles Lloyd, and a third edition appeared in 1803 with Coleridge's works only.
Thomas Miller (31 August 1807 – 24 October 1874) was an English poet and novelist who explored rural subjects. He was one of the most prolific English working-class writers of the 19th century and produced in all over 45 volumes, [1] including some "penny dreadfuls" on urban crime.
This poem is one of the three pastoral poems in Songs of Innocence, the other two being The Lamb and Spring. [4] This poem is written from the Piper's perspective. This can be seen in the repetition of the word 'sweet' in the first line which the Piper uses in the other poems of his narration. [5]
The poem depicts a ceremony held on Ascension Day, which in England was then called Holy Thursday, [2] [3] [4] a name now generally applied to what is also called Maundy Thursday: [5] Six thousand orphans of London's charity schools, scrubbed clean and dressed in the coats of distinctive colours, are marched two by two to St Paul's Cathedral ...
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The sixteen poems that follow, including an epilogue, describe the events of a day and a half of a child's visit to William Blake's Inn. Inhabited by such creatures as the Rabbit, the Rat, the Wise Cow, the King of Cats, the Tiger, the Man in the Marmalade Hat, and of course William Blake himself, it is a place of wonder and magic.