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Mother playing with infant, singing the tongue-twister (1913). "Moses supposes his toeses are roses" is a piece of English-language nonsense verse and a tongue-twister, whimsically describing the prophet Moses mistakenly conjecturing his toes are roses, contrary to biological reality.
English - Elgar's lyrics. LIKE TO THE DAMASK ROSE Like [to] [4] the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on [a] [5] tree, Or like the dainty flow’r of May, Or like the morning [of] [6] the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had, Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done :
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
"Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems. It forms part of the collection known as the Harley Lyrics, and exemplifies its best qualities. [1]
Robert Loveman (April 11, 1864 – July 10, 1923) was an American poet. Born to a Jewish [1] family in Cleveland, Ohio, he was educated at the Dalton Academy in Dalton, Georgia, [2] later attending the University of Alabama where he received his A.M. Loveman lived with Friedman relatives at the Battle Friedman House while attending the University of Alabama. [3]
Madeleine L'Engle in her novel The Small Rain (1945). Louis Zukofsky includes the poem in A Test of Poetry (1948). Charles Olson quotes the poem in "Projective Verse" (1950). Thomas Pynchon for the title of his first published story, The Small Rain (1959). Ezra Pound includes the poem in Confucius to Cummings, edited with Marcella Spann (1964).
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"Lenten ys come with love to toune" is an anonymous poem, thought to have been composed in the late 13th or early 14th century. [6] It has reached us as one of the Harley Lyrics, a collection of Middle English lyric poems preserved, among much other material, in British Library MS Harley 2253, fol. 71 v. In this folio the text is presented in ...