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Wildsmith, Brian Lawrence

(Encyclopedia) Wildsmith, Brian Lawrence, 1930–2016, English children's book author and illustrator. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1949–52), and served in the…

Winter Verse

Winter VerseA selection of quotations pondering the chill winds and quiet thoughts of winter Compiled by Ann-Marie Imbornoni Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow. Ralph…

John G. Neihardt: Ballad of a Child

Ballad of a ChildJohn G. NeihardtYearly thrilled the plum tree With the mother-mood; Every June the rose stock Bore her wonder-child: Every year the wheatlands Reared a golden brood: World of…

May Riley Smith: The Child in Me

The Child in MeMay Riley SmithShe follows me about my House of Life (This happy little ghost of my dead Youth!) She has no part in Time's relentless strife She keeps her old simplicity and…

Modern Verse

ContentsThe Little Book of Modern VerseForewordLord of my Heart's Elation (Bliss Carman)Gloucester Moors (William Vaughn Moody)On a Subway Express (Chester Firkins)The Automobile (Percy MacKaye)The…

Brewer's: Saturnian Verses

Old-fashioned. A rude composition employed in satire among the ancient Romans. Also a peculiar metre, consisting of three iambics and a syllable over, joined to three trochees, according…

Stevenson, Robert Louis

(Encyclopedia) Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850–94, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, b. Edinburgh. Handicapped from youth by delicate health, he struggled all his life against tuberculosis. He…

Death, Dance of

(Encyclopedia) Death, Dance of, or danse macabreDeath, Dance of,däns məkäˈbrə, –bər, dăns [key], originally a 14th-century morality poem. The poem was a dialogue between Death and representatives of…

Edith M. Thomas: "Frost To-Night"

"Frost To-Night"Edith M. ThomasApple-green west and an orange bar, And the crystal eye of a lone, one star … And, "Child, take the shears and cut what you will, Frost to-night — so clear and…