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  2. Sweet Afton - Wikipedia

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    "Sweet Afton" is a lyrical poem describing the Afton Water in Ayrshire, Scotland. It was written by Robert Burns in 1791. [ 1 ] The poem was first published as a song in the Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803) and this is the best known version as sung throughout Scotland.

  3. Fee-fi-fo-fum - Wikipedia

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    "Fee-fi-fo-fum" is the first line of a historical quatrain (or sometimes couplet) famous for its use in the classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk".The poem, as given in Joseph Jacobs' 1890 rendition, is as follows: [1]

  4. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - Wikipedia

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    A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not affect what they really are.

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    The apple does not fall/never falls far from the tree; The best condiments are authentic flavors; The best defense is a good offense; The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry; The best things in life are free; The bigger they are, the harder they fall; The boy is father to the man; The bread never falls but on its buttered side

  6. Catullus 13 - Wikipedia

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    or whatever is more sweet or more elegant: 11 nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae for I will give perfume, which to my girl 12 donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque, Venuses and Cupids have given, 13 quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis, which when you will smell it, you will ask the gods, 14 totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.

  7. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie - Wikipedia

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    Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou.Many of the poems in Diiie were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).

  8. Falling Up (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...

  9. Retronasal smell - Wikipedia

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    Retronasal smell creates flavor from smell molecules in foods or drinks shunting up through the nasal passages as one is chewing. When people use the term "smell", they are usually referring to "orthonasal smell", or the perception of smell molecules that enter directly through the nose and up the nasal passages.