"When We Were Very Young When We Were Very Young is a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne. It was first published in 1924, and was illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The book begins with an introduction entitled ""Just Before We Begin"", which, in part, tells readers to imagine for themselves who the narrator is, and that it might be Christopher Robin. The 38th poem in the book, ""Teddy Bear"", that originally appeared in ""Punch"" magazine in February 1924, was the first appearance of the famous character"
"a poem, ""Teddy Bear,"" published in ""Punch"" magazine in February 1924 and republished in ""When We Were Very Young"". Pooh first appeared in the ""London Evening News"" on Christmas Eve, 1925, in a story called ""The Wrong Sort Of Bees."" ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" was published in 1926, followed by ""The House at Pooh Corner"" in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, ""Now We Are Six"", was published in 1927. All four books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Milne also published four plays in this period. He also ""gallantly stepped forward"" to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatising P."
"We Are Seven ""We are Seven"" is a poem written by William Wordsworth and published in his ""Lyrical Ballads"". It describes a discussion between an adult poetic speaker and a ""little cottage girl"" about the number of brothers and sisters who dwell with her. The poem turns on the question of whether to account two dead siblings as part of the family. Wordsworth claimed that the idea for ""We are Seven"" came to him while travelling alone across England in October 1793 after becoming separated from his friend, William Calvert. This solitude with nature he claimed encouraged him to reach"
"talk. Around 1930, the soprano Mimi Crawford recorded several of the poems, set to music. The 78rpm shellac record (HMV B2678) includes ""Sneezles"", ""The Friend"", ""The Emperor's Rhyme"" and ""Furry Bear"". The music is by Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944) who also composed the music for ""Toad of Toad Hall"" in 1929. ""Now We Are Six"" was parodied with the (2003) book ""Now We Are Sixty"" and by an anthology of horror-themed poems titled ""Now We Are Sick"" (an anthology by Neil Gaiman). The 10th poem in the book ""Us Two"" was inspired ""A Poem Is..."" short. Now We Are Six Now"
"between even and odd. Maureen McLane reads the poem in the context of moral philosophy and argues that while the girl and the questioner speak the same language, they have wholly different views about time, death, and counting. John Mahoney argues, ""The seemingly silly squabble between adult and child is already a revelation of the early and continuing tension in the poet between the hope for a perpetual bliss and the incursion of a harsh reality."" We Are Seven ""We are Seven"" is a poem written by William Wordsworth and published in his ""Lyrical Ballads"". It describes a discussion between"
"ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque"". Part I – A Child's Garden of Verses The Child Alone Garden Days Envoys A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley"
"poetry: ""For me poetry gives room for a more intimate and personal reflection in an attempt to 'answer' some of the changes of our times. What has particularly been of interest for me as a poet is to try to find the words for the vanitas of things in the midst of our modern living. Having two daughters, 9 and 11 years of age, I have more and more come to see the emotions of love as the most important source of my writing."" Three of his latest prose-works were the novels ""Journey in blue"" published in 2004 (English 2006),"
"may be from American tradition that the modern lyrics solidified. A. A. Milne's ""Now We Are Six"" (1927) had the following version of ""Cherry stones"": The ""tinker, tailor"" rhyme is one part of a longer counting or divination game, often played by young girls to foretell their futures; it runs as follows: During the divination, the girl will ask a question and then count out a series of actions or objects by reciting the rhyme. The rhyme is repeated until the last of the series of objects or actions is reached. The last recited term or word is that which"
"are collected in ""All Of Us"" (1996) after previously appearing in the collections: ""Near Klamath"" (1968), ""Winter Insomnia"" (1970), ""At Night The Salmon Move"" (1976), ""Fires"" (1983), ""Where Water Comes Together With Other Water"" (1985), ""This Water"" (1985), ""Ultramarine"" (1986), ""Early For The Dance"" (1986), ""Those Days: Early Writings By Raymond Carver: Eleven Poems And A Story"" (1987), ""In A Marine Light: Selected Poems"" (1987), ""A New Path To The Waterfall"" (1989), and ""No Heroics, Please"" (1991). Notable poems include ""Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year"", which grew out of the essay ""My Father's Life"", and ""Gravy"", which"
"while another reviewer noted ""the energy and sharp-witted invention that characterize these youthful pieces"". The work was first published in 1974 by Oxford University Press. The songs were recorded in a collection of Rutter's secular works titled ""Fancies"", performed under his direction by the Cambridge Singers, together with the summer songs of the same name, the winter songs ""When Icicles Hang"", and the instrumental ""Suite Antique"". They were recorded in 2002 on an album of secular music by Rutter, with Nicol Matt conducting the Nordic Chamber Choir. Five Childhood Lyrics Five Childhood Lyrics is a choral composition by John Rutter,"
"educated in America. His most famous works are: ""Prufrock"" (1915), ""The Wasteland"" (1921) and ""Four Quartets"" (1935–42). Ezra Pound was not only a major poet, first publishing part of ""The Cantos"" in 1917, but an important mentor for other poets, most significantly in his editorial advice for Eliot's poem ""The Wasteland"". Other important American poets writing early in the 20th century were William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), Robert Frost (1874–1963), who published his first collection in England in 1913, and H.D. (1886–1961). Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), an American expatriate living in Paris, famous for her line ""Rose is a rose is a"
"A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title ""Carmina non prius audita de"
"Latter Days"", 1921), ""Luncușoara din Păresemi"" (""The Little Meadow of Păresemi"", 1921), ""Păcatele noastre"" (""Our Sins"", 1921), ""Trăsurica verde"" (""Green Gharry"", 1921), ""Chipuri de ceară"" (""Wax Figures"", 1922). These were followed by ""Stana"" (1924), ""Visările"" (""Reveries"", 1925), ""Dezamăgire"" (""Disappointment"", 1925), ""Singurătate"" (""Loneliness"", 1926), ""Legea trupului"" (""The Law of the Flesh"", 1926), ""Legea minții"" (""The Law of the Mind"", 1927), ""Ceasuri de seară"" (""Evening Hours"", 1927), ""Primăvara"" (""Spring"", 1928), ""Robirea sufletului"" (""A Soul's Bondage"", 1928), and ""Biruința"" (""Victory"", 1931). His other works of the period include various tracts on biblical topics, including homilies and discussions of theodicy: ""Ieșit-a semănătorul"" (""A Sower"
"poem ""France"", although he was better known for his peace poem, ""Now to be Still and Rest"". In 1919 he also had a number of poems accepted for publication in ""Oxford Poetry"": ""The Secret Playroom (Graudenz, 1918)"", ""The Song of Strength"" and ""The Deserted Garden"". He went on to publish poetry in periodicals that included the ""London Mercury"", ""The Oxford Magazine"", ""The Spectator"", and the ""Westminster Gazette"". Lyon was father to three daughters, Jill, Barbara and the children's writer Elinor Lyon. From 1926 to 1931 he was the rector of the Edinburgh Academy. Within a month of taking up the"
"Book of Twentieth Century Verse"". Tobias Hill called him 'a master of domestic disquiet' in the ""Times"", reviewing his ""Collected Poems"" (2007). He wrote: 'This is spectacular poetry. It deserves to be read: good readers deserve to read it.' Anthony Thwaite Anthony Thwaite (born 23 June 1930) is an English poet and critic, now widely known as the editor of his friend Philip Larkin's collected poems and letters. Born to Yorkshire parents, at ten the boy crossed the Atlantic alone to spend the war years in and around Washington D.C. with an aunt and uncle. On D-Day in 1944 he"
"to the real or imagined experiences of common British soldiers around the turn of the 20th century. The Five Nations The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in late 1903, both in the United Kingdom and in U.S.A. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably ""Recessional"", of 1897), sometimes in different versions. In 1903, the United Kingdom consisted of four nations: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It was soon suggested that Kipling's ""five nations"" were the ""five free nations of Canada, Australia,"
"Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair () is a collection of romantic poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924 by Editorial Nascimento of Santiago, when Neruda was 19. It was Neruda's second published work, after ""Crepusculario"" (Editorial Nascimento, 1923) and made his name as a poet. ""Veinte poemas"" was controversial for its eroticism, especially considering its author's very young age. Over the decades, ""Veinte poemas"" has become Neruda's best-known work, and has sold more than 20 million copies. The book has been translated into many languages;"
"several revised and augmented editions by the author. Critics say the last credible one is that of 1932, the following ones being increasingly worse in quality). 1924 – ""Curiosidades Estéticas"" (poems) 1925 – ""Piquenas Esculturas"" (poems) 1927 – ""Olimpíadas"" (poems) 1928 – ""Dandysmo"" (poems) 1929 – ""Antologia de Poemas Portugueses Modernos"" (with Fernando Pessoa) 1931 – ""O Livro das Crianças"" (children short stories) 1933 – ""Alfama"" (theatre); ""António"" (theatre) 1934 – ""O Meu Amor Pequenino"" (short stories); ""Ciúme"" (poems) 1935 – ""Dar de Beber a Quem Tem Sede"" (short stories); ""A Verdade e Nada Mais"" (children anthology); ""The Children's Book"","
"Guardian newspaper (Australia)."" He lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with his wife, Cathie. They have two adult sons named Jack and Joe. Herrick's books include fiction novels, poetry collections, and novels in verse. Titles include: The Blue Between Steven Herrick Steven Herrick (born in Brisbane, 1958) is an Australian poet and author. Herrick has published twenty-four books for adults, young adults and children. He is widely regarded as a pioneer of verse-novels for children and young adults. Herrick was born the youngest of seven children. His first published poem, written at age eighteen, was called ""Love is like"
"for Infant Minds"" in 1810. In the two volumes of ""Original Poems for Infant Minds"", the Taylor sisters, O'Keeffe and the other contributors were identified as authors for each poem by initial or other identifying markers. In ""Rhymes for the Nursery"" (1806), Ann and Jane Taylor were not identified as authors of the collection or of individual poems. The most famous piece in the 1806 collection is ""The Star,"" commonly known today as ""Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"", which was set to a French tune. Christina Duff Stewart identifies authorship in ""Rhymes for the Nursery"" based on a copy belonging to"
"Grace"" (1904; a romance set in Elizabethan London), ""The Man at Lone Lake"" (1912), ""The Golden Apple Tree"" (1920), ""Below the Salt"" (1936), and ""Leaves in the Wind"" (1936). Her poetry was collected in the volumes ""The Miracle and Other Poems"" (1913), ""Carry On!"" (1917), ""The Ballad of the Quest"" (1922), ""Candle Flame"" (1926), and ""Fairy Doors"" (1932). Her poem ""The Young Knights"", which opens with the lines ""Now they remain to us forever young / Who with such splendour gave their youth away"", is often cited among Canadian women's literary responses to World War I. Of her novel ""By"
"over a century. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett, ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from about the age of six. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15 she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life she also developed lung problems,"
"best editor. His books of poetry included ""Poems 1913 and 1914"" (1914); ""Poems Translated from the French"" (1914); ""Three Poems"" (1916); ""The Barn"" (1916); ""The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill; Stane Street; The Gods of the World Beneath,"" (1916); ""The Harbingers"" (1916); ""Pastorals"" (1916); ""The Waggoner and Other Poems"" (1920); ""The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War"" (1922); ""Old Homes"" (1922); ""To Nature: New Poems"" (1923); ""Dead Letters"" (1923); ""Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative"" (1925); ""Japanese Garland"" (1928); ""Retreat"" (1928); ""Winter Nights: A Reminiscence"" (1928); ""Near and Far: New Poems"" (1929); ""A Summer's"
"young and naive the child has some instinctive awareness of the severe impact of death. She combines reality and imagination, a technique also used in her poem ""Sestina"". Bishop's poem ""Sestina"", published in 1965, depicts a real-life experience. After her father's death when she was a baby and following her mother's nervous breakdown when she was 5, Bishop's poem notes her experience is after she has gone to live with relatives. The poem is about her living with the knowledge that she would not get to see her mother again. Bishop writes, ""Time to plant tears, says the almanac. /"
"Elizabeth Bath Elizabeth Bath, née Paddy, (1776–1844) was an English poet. She was the author of a collection of sixty-six poems published by subscription in 1806 in Bristol. She was a member of the Society of Friends. Elizabeth Paddy was born on 17 February 1776. She was the daughter of Edward Paddy and Mary (Rowling) of Falmouth, Cornwall. On 7 November 1796, she married Henry Bath (24 January 1776 – 29 May 1844) a Quaker and metals merchant of Swansea, South Wales, also founder of Henry Bath & Son Ltd., an enterprise currently in existence. They lived at Rosehill House,"
"last two verses of A. A. Milne's poem ""In the Dark"" in ""Now We Are Six"" echoes the verbal play of crib talk. <poem>So—here I am in the dark alone, There's nobody here to see; I think to myself, I play to myself, And nobody knows what I say to myself; Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me. I'm talking to a rabbit ... I'm"
"year of their separation. From 1831 onwards, she lived in Dublin, where her younger brother had settled, and her poetic output continued. Her major collections, including ""The Forest Sanctuary"" (1825), ""Records of Woman"" and ""Songs of the Affections"" (1830) were immensely popular, especially with female readers. Her last books, sacred and profane, are the substantive ""Scenes and Hymns of Life"" and ""National Lyrics, and Songs for Music"". She was by now a well-known literary figure, highly regarded by contemporaries such as Wordsworth, and with a popular following in the United States and the United Kingdom. When she died of dropsy,"
"a 1918 letter, he writes: ""There's no symbolism in the ""Earthy Anecdote."" There's a good deal of theory about it, however; but explanations spoil things."" Harmonium (poetry collection) Harmonium is a book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens. His first book at the age of forty-four, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. This collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines (""Life Is Motion"") to several hundred (""The Comedian as the Letter C"") (see the footnotes for the table of contents). ""Harmonium"" was reissued in 1931 with three"
"Friday, June 9, 2006, at age 74, at Highland Hospital. The night before, she had given a reading to a full house at Barnes & Noble in Pittsford, NY for ""Synchronicity"", a collection of poems spanning the years since 1970. The book had just been released that day. She continued her work as a chaplain and nurse up until a few weeks before her death and was still working on a chapbook of poems about New Mexico. Patricia Janus Patricia ""Pat"" Janus (April 20, 1932 – June 9, 2006) was an American poet, artist, and educator. Born Patricia O'Brien to"
"Juvenilia (poetry collection) Juvenilia; or, a Collection of Poems Written between the ages of Twelve and Sixteen by J. H. L. Hunt, Late of the Grammar School of Christ's Hospital, commonly known as Juvenilia, was a collection of poems written by James Henry Leigh Hunt at a young age and published in March 1801. As an unknown author, Hunt's work was not accepted by any professional publishers, and his father Isaac Hunt instead entered into an agreement with the printer James Whiting to have the collection printed privately. The collection had over 800 subscribers, including important academics, politicians and lawyers,"
"1826 he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldborough. He died at Welwyn, Herts, where he had purchased the residence and estate of the poet Edward Young. He had married twice; firstly Harriott, the daughter of Rev. Charles Wylde of Nottingham and secondly Katherine, the daughter of Rt. Rev. Henry William Majendie, Bishop of Bangor. They had 2 sons who predeceased their father and 9 daughters. His reading was methodical (see his ""Literary Remains""). His ""Fasti"", on classical chronology, has required correction on the basis of later research. His major works are: In 1851 and 1853 respectively he published epitomes"
"comment two poems discovered by Huidobro’s friend Volodia Teitelboim: Tagore’s ""Poem 30"" from ""The Gardener"" and Neruda’s very similar ""Poem 16"" from ""20 Poems of Love"". Huidobro is also known to have referred to Neruda as a ""Romantic Poet"" who wrote poems for 15-year-old girls. Neruda reacted to his peers’ criticism by writing a text called ""Aquí estoy"" (Here I am), published in Paris in 1938, where he denounced their animosity and vilification. Despite this criticism, Neruda is recognized as one of the twenty six authors that make up the of literature, along with Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Michel de"
"Rowlf the Dog sang a cover of this song in his album, ""Ol' Brown Ears is Back"". American singer Amy Lee of the band Evanescence sang a cover of the song which was included on the 2011 album """". Halfway Down (poem) ""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."" Christopher Robin, the child in Milne's ""Winnie"