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Best Christmas Poems. 1. Jesus Christ Emmanuel. J ourneying to Bethlehem, a long and tiring trek. E very bed was full that night, no matter where they checked. S table is empty, someone said, a ...
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...
Roses Are Red. "Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [ 1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [ 2]
It was repeated by the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree on 11 December 2014. Studwell describes the poem as "simple, direct and sincere" and notes that it is a rare example of a carol which has overcome the disadvantage of "not having a tune (or two or three) which has caught the imagination of holiday audiences." Love came down at Christmas,
with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof. the prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning around, down ...
August 23, 2016 at 3:35 PM. Poetry Stamping. Twitter has been especially poetic lately as people are sharing their own takes of a popular rhyme. The meme, which always starts with "roses are red ...
In 1892, the American writer, Eugene Field wrote a poem titled Teeny-Weeny that specifically referred to fay folk playing ring-a-rosie. [ 28 ] According to Games and Songs of American Children , published in 1883, the "rosie" was a reference to the French word for rose tree and the children would dance and stoop to the person in the center. [ 7 ]
Red Roses for a Blue Lady. " Red Roses for a Blue Lady " is a 1948 popular song by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett (alias Roy Brodsky). It has been recorded by a number of performers. Actor-singer John Laurenz (1909–1958) [ 1] was the first to record the song for Mercury Records. It rose to #2 on the weekly “Your Hit Parade” radio survey in ...