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William Livingston Larned was an American author and poet. He is known for his works "Father Forgets" [2] and "Advertisement Illustration". [3] In 1909, he penned a poem titled "Florida's State Flower" to commemorate the designation of the orange blossom as the official state flower of Florida.
The name of the flower likely comes from an Old English poem by John Gay about a woman by that name. It probably came over during Colonial times, when the settlers sewed the wildflower on the ...
The language of flowers is a mystery to many. While there's a good chance you already know what roses symbolize (love, of course), you may be surprised to know the meaning behind some of your ...
The Sun and Her Flowers (stylized in all lowercase) is Rupi Kaur's second collection of poetry, published in 2017. It is composed of five chapters, with illustrations by the author. It is composed of five chapters, with illustrations by the author.
"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd ; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [ 1 ] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim . [ 2 ]
The ballad concerns a woman from Usher's Well, who sends her three sons away, to school in some versions, and a few weeks after learns that they had died. The woman grieves bitterly for the loss of her children, cursing the winds and sea. "I wish the wind may never cease, Nor flashes in the flood, Till my three sons come home to me,
Unable to afford a home of their own they lived for 4 years in the house of her elderly father-in-law, "an old Presbyterian of the deepest dye" who condemned as ungodly cards, plays, and dancing. On the death of the old man they moved to Edinburgh, and she began to mix in society where her liveliness and wit made her welcome in spite of her ...
The speaker in the poem concludes by stating that the blooming English buttercups will be brighter than the "gaudy melon-flower" seen growing in Italy. [2] The poem is in two stanzas. The first stanza has an irregular metre consisting of alternating trimeter, tetrameter and pentameter lines and a final trimeter line, with an ABABCCDD rhyming ...