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babes in the wood
2008-05-26 23:37 onooyes
have you all seen this great caldecott book?
it's a longer, different version of a nursery rhyme/song that I love:
now don't you remember, a long time ago,
those two little babies whose name I don't know,
they wandered away one bright summer's day,
and those two little babies got lost on their way.
refrain:
pretty babes in the wood, pretty babes in the wood,
now don't you remember those babes in the wood?
the day being gone, and night coming on,
the two little babies laid under a stone,
they wept and they cried, they sobbed and they sighed,
those two little babies they laid down and died.
pretty babes in the wood, pretty babes in the wood,
now don't you remember those babes in the wood?
the robins so red, how swiftly they sped,
they spread out their wide wings and over them laid,
and all the day long on the branches they thronged,
they sweetly did whistle, and this was their song...
pretty babes in the wood, pretty babes in the wood,
now don't you remember those babes in the wood?
Origin of Serendipity
2008-03-03 04:27 electragiselle
Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word derives from an old Persian fairy tale and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read,
"It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip (Serendip = Sri Lanka): as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table."
The fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip is based upon the life of Persian King Bahram V, who ruled the Sassanid Empire (420–440). Stories of his rule are told in epic poetry of the region (Firdausi's Shahnameh of 1010, Nizami's Haft Paykar of 1197, Khusrau's Hasht Bihisht of 1302), parts of which are based upon historical facts with embellishments derived from folklore going back hundreds of years to oral traditions in India and The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. With the exception of the well-known camel story, English translations are very hard to come by.
Read more about the origin of Serendipity..
http://livingheritage.org/three_princes.htm
valentines day rhymes anyone
2008-02-11 11:53 greengloves
I'm on the hunt for nursery rhymes or childrens poems about valentines day...does anyone know any good ones?
https://nurseryrhymes.livejournal.com/65008.html
2008-01-21 09:47 onooyes
on st. agnes' eve i go backwards to bed,
i sleep with my petticoat under my head,
to dream of the living, and not of the dead,
to dream of the man that i am to wed.
https://nurseryrhymes.livejournal.com/64552.html
2008-01-13 18:49 onooyes
ST. DUNSTAN, as the story goes,
Once pulled the devil by the nose,
With red-hot tongs, which made him roar,
That he was heard ten miles or more.
2
2008-01-12 04:47 greengloves
IF A PIG WORE A WIG
If a pig wore a wig,
What could we say?
Treat him as a gentlemen,
And say "Good day."
If his tail chance to fail,
What could we do?-
Send him to the tailoress
To get one new.
THE MAN FROM BOMBAY
There was a fat man from Bombay,
Who was smoking one sunshiny day;
When a bird called a snipe
Flew away with his pipe,
Which vexed the fat man of Bombay.
LITTLE JOHN JIGGY JAG
2008-01-08 01:48 greengloves
Little John Jiggy Jag,
He rode a penny nag,
And went to Wigan to woo;
When he came to a beck,
He fell and broke his neck,-
Johnny, how dost thou now?
I made him a hat,
Of my coat-lap,
And stockings of pearly blue.
A hat and a feather,
To keep out cold weather;
So, Johnny, how doust thou now?
https://nurseryrhymes.livejournal.com/63971.html
2008-01-05 07:13 greengloves
THE FLYING PIG
Dickoy, dickory, dare,
The pig flew up in the air;
The man in brown soon brought
him down,
Dickory,
dickory,
dare.
LITTLE BETTY BLUE
Little Betty Blue,
Lost her holiday shoe,
What will poor Betty do?
Why, give her another,
To match the other,
And then she will walk in two.
New Layout
2008-01-04 03:57 electragiselle
Hi everyone, For the new year I have made the community look prettier. I hope everyone had a great holiday season, and best wishes for 2008.
Flour of England, fruit of Spain,
Met together in a shower of rain;
Put in a bag tied round with a string,
If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a ring.
The Unexplored
2008-01-03 04:35 arainia_honey
There was a road ran past our house
Too lovely to explore.
I asked my mother once - she said
That if you fallowed where it led
It brought you to a milk-man's door.
(That's why I have not traveled more.)
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
king charles I
2007-12-02 02:23 onooyes
XVI.
AS I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First;
Oh dear! my heart was ready to burst!
XVII.
HIGH diddle ding,
Did you hear the bells ring?
The parliament soldiers are gone to the king!
Some they did laugh, some they did cry,
To see the parliament soldiers pass by.
XVIII.
HIGH ding a ding, and ho ding a ding,
The parliament soldiers are gone to the king;
Some with new beavers, some with new bands,
The parliament soldiers are all to be hang'd.
(Good King Charles walked and talked
Seven years after his head was chopped off.)
2
2007-09-20 02:07 greengloves
THE MAN IN THE MOON
The man in the moon,
Came down too soon,
To inquire his way
to Norwich:
He went by south,
And burnt his mouth
with eating cold
plum-porridge.
THE FLYING PIG
Dickory, dickory, dare,
The pig flew up in the air;
The man in brown soon brought
him down,
Dickory,
dickory,
dare.
Called Away
2007-08-22 08:30 arainia_honey
I meant to do my work today-
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly flitted across the field,
And all the leaves were calling me.
And the wind went singing over the land
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And a rainbow held out its shining hand-
So what could I do but laugh and go?
-Richard Le Gallienne
2
2007-08-14 07:22 greengloves
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Birds of a feather flock together,
and so will pigs and swine,
Rats and mice will have their choice,
And so will I have mine.
THE MONTHS
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
Febuary has twenty-eight alone;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting leap-year, that's the time
Then Febuary's days are twenty-nine.
WHEN GOOD KIND AUTHUR RULED THIS LAND
2007-07-27 23:49 greengloves
When good Kind Authur ruled this land,
He was a goodly king;
He stole three pecks of barley-meal,
To make a bag-pudding.
A bag-pudding the king did make,
And stuffed it well with plums.
And in it put great lumps of fat,
As big as my two thumbs.
The king and queen did eat there of,
And noble men beside;
And what they could not eat that night,
The queen next morning fried.
july 15th weather lore
2007-07-15 10:17 onooyes
st swithin's day, if thou dost rain,
for forty days it will remain;
st swithin's day, if thou be fair,
for forty days 'twill rain na mair.
according to the annotated mother goose: "swithin (or swithun), bishop of winchester and famous builder, died in 862. his body, so the story goes, was buried at his own request outside the church 'in a vile and unworthy place, under the drip of the eaves, where the sweet rain of heaven might fall upon his grave.' a century later it was decided to move his remains to the interior of the church on july 15th; by way of protest the saint arranged for a forty-day deluge, whereby the monks were persuaded to abandon their project."
Animal Crackers
2007-07-09 21:56 greengloves
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink,
That is the finest of suppers, I think;
When I'm grown up and can have what I please
I think I shall always insist upon these.
What do you choose when you're offered a treat?
When Mother says, "What would you like best to eat?"
Is it waffles and syrup, or cinnamon toast?
It's cocoa and animal that I love the most!
The kitchen's the coziest place that I know:
The kettle is singing, the shove is aglow,
And there in the twilight, how jolly to see
The cocoa and animals waiting for me.
Daddy and Mother dine later in state,
With Mary to cook for them, Susan to wait;
But they don't have nearly as much fun as I
Who eat in the kitchen with Nurse standing by;
And Daddy once said he would like to be me
Having cocoa and animals once more for tea!
~Christopher Marley
THE CLOCK
2007-06-27 10:38 greengloves
There's a neat little clock,-
In the schoolroom it stands,-
And it point to the time
With its two little hands.
And may we, like the clock,
Keep a face clean and bright,
With hands ever ready
To do what is right.
THREE YOUNG RATS
2007-06-24 02:00 greengloves
Three young rats with black felt hat,
Three young ducks with white straw flats,
Three young dogs with curly tails,
Three young cats with demi-veils,
Went out to walk with two-young pigs
In satin and sorrel wigs;
But suddenly it chanced to rain,
And so they all went home again.
2
2007-06-22 06:01 greengloves
SEE-SAW SACRADOWN
See-Saw Sacradown,
Which is the way to London Town?
One foot up and the other down,
And tht is the way to London Town.
A SEASONABLE SONG
Piping hot, smoking hot.
What I've got
You have not.
Hot gray pease, hot, hot, hot;
Hot gray pease hot.
