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The Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens is a song cycle by Arthur Sullivan with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1867–1870, it was eventually published in 1871. Written in 1867–1870, it was eventually published in 1871.
The recorded source of the children's story "The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren" is Isabella Burns, later Mrs Isabella Burns Begg, the youngest sister of Robert Burns. Isabella recalled that her brother, Robert Burns, was the author and that he was in the habit of telling the tale to entertain the younger members of his family at ...
Wren concedes that "my size may be small" – after all, he is called the "one-shekel bird", i.e., the bird who weighs only 8 grams –, but contends that he should still be allowed to subsist. The Sun God apparently punishes Eagle for its pride, whereupon Wren exhorts the "birds from the mountain and the plain" to sing the god's praises for ...
"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" [1] [2] is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785. It was included in the Kilmarnock Edition [ 3 ] and all of the poet's later editions, such as the Edinburgh Edition .
Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh From too much dwelling on what has been. Yet for them the lilac renewed its leaf, And the aged elm, though touched with fire; And the dry pump flung up an awkward arm; And the fence post carried a strand of wire. For them there was really nothing sad. But though they rejoiced in the nest they kept,
Winter Words, Op. 52, is a song cycle for tenor and piano by Benjamin Britten. Written in 1953, it sets eight poems by Thomas Hardy . [ 1 ] The cycle is named after Hardy's last published collection, but the poems are from different parts of his collected poems.
The Wrens of Curragh were a community who lived on the Curragh (plains) of Kildare. [1] The women were called "wrens" because they slept in hollows in the ground which were half in banks or ditches, covered in furze bushes, like the nests that birds in the wren family make. [1]
The name "Wren's Nest" came from his discovery of a family of wrens living in the mailbox in the spring of 1895. [5] After several years of correspondence, Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley visited Harris at Wren's Nest in 1900. Harris's children were especially interested in Riley and nicknamed him Uncle Jeems. [6]