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  2. Song of the Old Mother - Wikipedia

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    In the poem, the fire the Old Mother lights in the morning is meant to represent the Old Mother herself, waking up when the fire is blown, and resting when the fire grows both "cold" and "feeble". The rhyming style of the poem represents that of childish songs and nursery rhymes. The simplicity touches the reader.

  3. Song of Songs - Wikipedia

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    Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893. The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים ‎, romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.

  4. Canticum Canticorum (Palestrina) - Wikipedia

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    Canticum Canticorum (Song of Solomon) from 1584 is a cycle of 29 motets by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Originally titled Motettorum - Liber Quartus, this Renaissance work is one of Palestrina's largest collections of Sacred motets. The work is in Latin and based upon excerpts from the book in the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The ...

  5. AQA Anthology - Wikipedia

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    The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a section of prose pieces, which could have been studied in schools ...

  6. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The song is first attested in William King's Useful Transactions in Philosophy for January and February 1709. Old Mother Hubbard: United Kingdom 1805 [71] [72] The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog is attributed to Sarah Catherine Martin (1768–1826). On Top of Spaghetti 'The Meatball Song' United States 1963 [73]

  7. Songs and monologues of Stanley Holloway - Wikipedia

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    He mainly recorded songs from musicals and revues, and he recited many monologues on various subjects. [1] Most prominent among his recordings (aside from his participation in recordings of My Fair Lady ) are those of three series of monologues that he made at intervals throughout his career.

  8. James Whitcomb Riley - Wikipedia

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    James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...

  9. Song of the Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Song of the Sea (Hebrew: שירת הים, Shirat HaYam; also known as Az Yashir Moshe and Song of Moses, or Mi Chamocha) is a poem that appears in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Bible, at Exodus 15:1–18. It is followed in verses 20 and 21 by a much shorter song sung by Miriam and the other women.