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Little Boy Blue (poem) " Little Boy Blue " is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him ...
"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy child's blinking ...
This article is about the poem by William Ross Wallace. For other topics, see The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (disambiguation). " The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is the Hand That Rules the World " is a poem by William Ross Wallace that praises motherhood as the preeminent force for change in the world. The poem was first published in 1865 under ...
Infant Joy. " Infant Joy " is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was first published as part of his collection Songs of Innocence in 1789 and is the counterpart to "Infant Sorrow", which was published at a later date in Songs of Experience in 1794. Ralph Vaughan Williams set the poem to music in his 1958 song cycle Ten Blake ...
Little Jack Horner. William Wallace Denslow ’s illustration of the rhyme, 1902. " Little Jack Horner " is a popular English nursery rhyme with the Roud Folk Song Index number 13027. First mentioned in the 18th century, it was early associated with acts of opportunism, particularly in politics. Moralists also rewrote and expanded the poem so ...
1901 illustration by William Wallace Denslow. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1744. Songwriter (s) Traditional. " Little Boy Blue " is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11318.
The Witch of Coos. The Pauper Witch of Grafton. A Star In A Stone Boat. The Star Splitter. In A Disused Graveyard. Fragmentary Blue. A Brook in the City. On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To Hear Us Talk) Gathering Leaves.
Johnson recognizes 1775 poems, and Franklin 1789; however each, in a handful of cases, categorizes as multiple poems lines which the other categorizes as a single poem. This mutual splitting results in a table of 1799 rows. Columns. First Line: Most of the first lines link to the poem's text (usually its first publication) at Wikisource.