More from Eleanor Farjeon

  1. Online version of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, with illustrations
  2. An author is known by the worlds he creates. The measure of his greatness is the degree of clarity and the consistency with which he builds…
  3. I was a little overworked. I had been reading a great number of manuscripts in the preceding weeks, and the mere sight of typescript was a …
  4. He could not be captured, He could not be bought, His running was rhythm, His standing was thought; With one eye on sorrow And one eye on m…
  5. From the blood of Medusa Pegasus sprang. His hoof of heaven Like melody rang.
  6. Praise with elation, Praise every morning, God's re-creation Of the new day!
  7. Sweet the rain's new fall, Sunlit from heaven, Like the first dewfall On the first grass.
  8. Morning has broken, Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Prais…

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