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The Blue Bird is a partsong (Op. 119 No. 3) composed by Charles Villiers Stanford in 1910. It is set to the words of L'Oiseau Bleu, a poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, which depicts a blue bird in flight over a lake. It is written for SAATB choir: soprano, divided altos, tenor and bass.
Bell-Birds" is a poem by Australian writer Henry Kendall that was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 25 November 1867. [ 1 ] It was later included in the author's poetry collection Leaves from Australian Forests (1869), and was subsequently reprinted in various newspapers, magazines and poetry anthologies (see below).
The poem 'Bell-Birds', one of Australia's best-known poems, was published in that volume. The press notices were favourable, one reviewer in his enthusiasm going so far as to say that "Swinburne, Arnold and Morris are indulgently treated if we allow them an equal measure of poetic feeling with Kendall".
"Leaves from Australian Forests" (1869) is the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Kendall.Published in hardback by George Robertson in 1869 and features the poet's widely anthologized poems "Bell-Birds", "The Hut by the Black Swamp", and "The Last of His Tribe".
In 2006, he moved to Maine to live with his daughter, where at the age of ninety-two he was still writing, working on a manuscript entitled Poetry and Translation. He died on December 25, 2010. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He was the nephew-in-law of Amphilis Throckmorton Middlemore , grandson-in-law of MP Sir John Middlemore and great nephew-in-law of ...
The Sea-Bell" or "Frodos Dreme" is a poem with elaborate rhyme scheme and metre by J.R.R. Tolkien in his 1962 collection of verse The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. It was a revision of a 1934 poem called "Looney". The first-person narrative speaks of finding a white shell "like a sea-bell", and of being carried away to a strange and beautiful land.
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Charles Stuart Calverley (/ ˈ k ɑː v ər l ɪ /; 22 December 1831 – 17 February 1884) was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour".