Showing posts with label Classic Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classic Literature. Show all posts

Folktales: The Story of the Three Little Pigs, the Adult Version (England)

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Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme And monkeys chewed tobacco, And hens took snuff to make them tough, And ducks went quack, quack, quac...

Classic Poetry: Topsy-Turvy World (William B. Rands)

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* Guy Fawkes portrait, unknown artist _________________________________________________________________ If the butterfly courted the bee, -...

Classic Poetry: Wasn't That a Mighty Storm? (Folk Song, Eric von Schmidt, 1931 -2007)

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* ________________________________________________________ "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm?" Performed by D. E. Mainer jefferyb304...

Classic Poetry: The Wind In A Frolic (William Howitt, 1792 - 1879)

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* William Howitt , 18 December 1792 – 3 March 1879) author from Heanor Derbyshire __________________________________________________________...

Classic Poetry--Solomon Grundy (Anonymous Nursery Rhyme)

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* ___________________________________________________________________ Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on We...
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Classic Poetry: Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1830 - 1894)

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* Christina Rossetti _____________________________________________________________ Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the le...

Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934): The Real Alice in Wonderland and "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)

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* 1862 Photograph of seven-year-old Alice Pleasance Liddell (by Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll) ______________________________________...

Chapter XII--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "Alice's Evidence" (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)

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* 'Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped ...

Classic Poetry: The Fairies (William Allingham, 1824? - 1889)--Updated Version

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* ___________________________________________________________ Up the airy mountain --- Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, ---...

Chapter XI--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "Who Stole the Tarts?" (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)

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* The Trial: Who Stole the Tarts? jdewbre says: The trial scene the 1983 Great Performances version of "Alice In Wonderland," dir...

Chapter X--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "The Lobster Quadrille" (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)

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* jdewbre "Meryl Streep meets the Mock Turtle and dances the Lobster Quadrille in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Eliz...

Claasic Fiction: "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849)

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. TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, n...