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"Vespers" is a poem by the British author A.A. Milne, first published in 1923 by the American magazine Vanity Fair, and later included in the 1924 book of Milne's poems When We Were Very Young when it was accompanied by two illustrations by E.H. Shephard. It was written about the "Christopher Robin" persona of Milne's son Christopher Robin Milne.
Alan Alexander Milne (/ m ɪ l n /; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.
When We Were Very Young is a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne. [1] It was first published in 1924, and it was illustrated by E. H. Shepard.Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson.
Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, he also wrote extensively for adults, most notably in Punch, to which he was a contributor and later assistant editor. The Sunny Side collects his columns for Punch, which include poems, essays and short stories, from 1912 to 1920.
Pages in category "Poetry by A. A. Milne" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... The King's Breakfast (poem) V. Vespers (poem) W. When We ...
Now We Are Six is a 1927 book of children's poetry by A. A. Milne, with illustrations by E. H. Shepard. It is the second collection of children's poems following Milne's When We Were Very Young, which was first published in 1924. The collection contains thirty-five verses, including eleven poems that feature Winnie-the-Pooh illustrations.
"The King's Breakfast" is a poem by A. A. Milne, first published in When We Were Very Young (1924). It is about "a monarch who sulks when the cow refuses to provide milk." [1] Damon Young calls it a "witty portrait of moping". [1] The poem was made into a film in 1963. The poem features an Alderney cow, a breed which became extinct in the 1940s.
Ernest Shepard illustration for "Halfway Down". "Halfway Down" is a poem by A.A. Milne, included in the 1924 collection When We Were Very Young.A "juvenile meditation", Zena Sutherland comments in Children & Books that both the poem and Ernest Shepard's illustration "has caught the mood of suspended action that is always overtaking small children on stairs."