~Verse!

by Florence Edith Storer
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Close your eyes and drift away to sleep,
Stars that shine above you will guide you to your dreams.
If you should wake, remember where you are,
I'll be here to hold you and rock you in my arms.
And love, my sweetest love, I'll place a kiss upon your cheek,
As I wait.....'till slumber calls your name
So close your eyes and drift away to sleep,
Let the night, hold you tight, until the dawning of the day.

by Eugene Field (1919)

~Gaëlle Boissonnard

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“the most important tribute any human being
can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really
loves is to learn it by heart.
Not by brain, by heart;
the expression is vital.”
This is what I have learned by heart long ago:
~ George Steiner~
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~I'll tell a story. ..

The sun shone down for nearly a week
on the secret garden.
The Secret Garden was what Mary called
it when she was thinking of it.

She liked the name, and she liked still more
the feeling that when its beautiful walls shut her
in no one knew where she was.

It seemed almost like being shut out of the world
in some fairy place.
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The few books she had read and liked had been
fairy-story books, and she had read of
secret gardens in some of the stories.

Sometimes people went to sleep in them
for a hundred years,
which she had thought must be rather stupid.

She had no intention of going to sleep, and , in fact,
she was becoming wider awake every day
which passed at Misselthwaite.

She was beginning to like to be out of doors;
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She no longer hated the wind, but enjoyed it.
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She could run faster, and longer, and she could skip
up to a hundred.
The bulbs in the secret garden must have been astonished.
Such nice clear places were made round them that
they had all the breathing space they wanted,
and really, if Mistress Mary had known it,
they began to cheer up under the dark earth and work tremendously.

The sun could get at them and warm them,
and when the rain came down it could reach them at once,
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so they began to feel very much alive.
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Excerpt from Frances Hodgson Burnett's
"The Secret Garden"

~Rose Fyleman

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Rose Amy Fyleman (1877 – 1957) was an
English writer and poet, noted for her works on the
fairy folk, for children.
Her poem There are fairies at the bottom of our garden
was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann.
Her Christmas carol Lift your hidden faces, set to
a French carol tune, was included in the Anglican
hymnal Songs of Praise (1931) as well as
in the Hutterian Brotherhood's Songs of Light (1977).
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She was born in Nottingham on 6 March 1877,
the third child of John Feilmann and his wife, Emilie,
née Loewenstein, who was of Russian extraction.
Her father was in the lace trade, and the family were
Jews who had come from Jever in Oldenburg in
Germany in 1860.

She died at a nursing home in St. Albans
on 1 August 1957.
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Published Works;
Fiction:
-The Rainbow Cat, 1922
-Forty Good-Night Tales, 1924
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Poetry:
-Fairies and Chimneys, 1920
-The Fairy Green, 1919
-The Fairy Flute, 1921
-Faries,----
-The Fairies Have Never A Penny To Spend
-Mice "I think mice are rather nice..."
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Fairies;

THERE are fairies at the bottom of our garden!

It's not so very, very far away;

You pass the gardner's shed and you just keep straight ahead --

I do so hope they've really come to stay.

There's a little wood, with moss in it and beetles,

And a little stream that quietly runs through;

You wouldn't think they'd dare to come merrymaking there--

      Well, they do.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!

They often have a dance on summer nights;

The butterflies and bees make a lovely little breeze,

And the rabbits stand about and hold the lights.

Did you know that they could sit upon the moonbeams

And pick a little star to make a fan,

And dance away up there in the middle of the air?

      Well, they can.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!

You cannot think how beautiful they are;

They all stand up and sing when the Fairy Queen and King

Come gently floating down upon their car.

The King is very proud and very handsome;

The Queen--now you can quess who that could be

(She's a little girl all day, but at night she steals away)?

      Well -- it's Me!


~ by Rose Fyleman ~

~Frances Hodgson Burnett

(1849-1924)
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~Click here for more info (in Dutch)
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“If tha’ goes round that way tha’ll come to
th’ gardens,” she said, pointing to a gate in
a wall of shrubbery. “There’s lots o’ flowers in summer-time,
but there’s nothin’ bloomin’ now.”
She seemed to hesitate a second before she added,
“One of th’ gardens is locked up.
No one has been in it for ten years.”

“Why?” asked Mary in spite of herself.
Here was another locked door added to
the hundred in the strange house.
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She wrote Fiction;
-A Fair Barbarian
-A Lady of Quality
-A Little Princess
-Emily Fox-Seton
-His Grace of Osmonde
-In Connection With The De Willoughby Claim
-Little Lord Fauntleroy
-Robin
-T. Tembarom
-That Lass O' Lowrie's
-The Dawn of a To-Morrow
-The Head of the House of Coombe
-The Lost Prince
-The Secret Garden
-The Shuttle
-The White People
-Vagabondia
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and Short Stories;
-In the Closed Room
-The Land of the Blue Flower
-The Little Hunchback Zia
-Little Saint Elizabeth
-The Story of Prince Fairyfoot
-The Proud Little Grain of Wheat
-Behind the White Brick
-My Robin
-Sara Crewe
-Esmeralda
-Le Monsieur De La Petite Dame
-Lodusky
-Mère Girauds Little Daughter
-One Day At Arle
-The Pretty Sister Of José
-Racketty-Packetty House
-Seth
-Surly Tim
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~Francine van Hove~

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"My main theme is, without a doubt, that intimacy
and peace which women know when they are alone,
when they enjoy such simple pleasures as reading
during breakfast, or losing themselves staring into
the eyes of a cat, or just sleeping."
~Francine Van Hove (1942-)
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The illustrator and contemporary painter
Francine Van Hove paints gentle, sensuous portraits
of women in day-to-day poses. 

She always paints with a live model and has a
particular mastery of transparent skin tones. 
Beauty, refinement, sensuality and meditation
are the prominent themes of her work.

She is inspired by daily life, painting and literature. 

Her masters are La Tour, Ingres, Degas, the painters
of the Italian Renaissance and Dutch painting. 
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~Sunday Poem~

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For I have learned
to look on nature, not as in the hour
of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
the still, sad music of humanity,
nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
to chasten and subdue. And I have felt
a presence that disturbs me with the joy
of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
of something far more deeply interfused,
whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
and the round ocean and the living air,
and the blue sky, and in the mind of man: 

A motion and a spirit, that impels
all thinking things, all objects of all thought,
and rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
a lover of the meadows and the woods,
and mountains; and of all that we behold
from this green earth; of all the mighty world
of eye, and ear, -- both what they half create,
and what perceive; well pleased to recognize
in nature and the language of the sense,
the anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
the guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
of all my moral being. 

~ by William Wordsworth~
Painting by Vladimir Gusev (1957-)

~Graham Rust~

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"Then she slipped through the door,
and shut it behind her, breathing quite fast
with excitement and wonder, and delight.
She was standing inside the secret garden."
~Frances Hodgson Burnett~
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Graham Redgrave-Rust was born in Hertfordshire,
England in 1942. He studied drawing and painting
at the Polytechnic School of Art, Regent Street,
the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and
the National Academy of Art in New York.
For two years he worked as an artist on
"Architectural Forum" for Time Inc.
In 1968 he spent a year as artist in residence
at Woodberry Forest School, Virginia, USA.
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He is internationally renowned for his murals
and ceiling paintings. His most important work is
the mural "The Temptation" in the entrance hall of
Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, which took over a decade
to complete. He has illustrated various books including
the 1986 edition of ' The Secret Garden',
by Frances Hodgson Burnett and
the 1993 edition of 'Some Flowers',
by Vita Sackville-West. His works has been displayed
in over twenty one-man exhibitions.
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Graham Rust lives and works in Suffolk and is
currently illustrating a cookery book by the late
Countess of Clanwilliam, who commissioned his
first mural painting in 1965.
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Books illustrated:
- Fruite of the Earth 1986
- The Secret Garden 1986
-A Little Princess 1989
-The Secret Garden Notebook 1991
-Some Flowers 1993
- Little Lord Fauntleroy 1993
-The Fine Art of Dining 1994
-Claro en la Selva 2001
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Books published:
-The Painted House 1987
-Decorative Designs 1996
-Needlepoint Designs 1998
-The Painted Ceiling 2001
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~P.J. Lynch

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Patrick James Lynch  was born March 2 1962
P. J. Lynch has worked as a Children’s
Book Illustrator since leaving
Brighton College of Art in England in 1984.
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He has won many awards including the
Mother Goose Award, the Christopher Medal three times,
and the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal on two
occasions , first for "The Christmas Miracle of
Jonathan Toomey" by Susan Wojciechowski, and
again for “When Jessie Came Across the Sea” by Amy Hest.
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Born in Belfast, Lynch was the youngest of five children.
He was interested in art from an early age, often
choosing to spend his free periods during school in
the art department. According to Lynch, Belfast
was a "scary" place for a teenager in the 1970s
(see The Troubles), and he used drawing and reading
as a "way of escaping for a while from the horrors
that were happening around me in the real world."
He attended the Brighton College of Art, leaving in 1984
to begin his career as a children's book illustrator.
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Lynch's first book, a collection of folklore tales from
England and Wales entitled A Bag of Moonshine
(written by Alan Garner), was published in 1986.
This was the beginning of a recurring theme in Lynch's work;
many of his books focus on traditional stories, legends,
and fairy tales. For his illustrations in A Bag of Moonshine
Lynch received the Mother Goose Award,
given to the "most exciting newcomer to British
children's book illustration".
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"The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey”
has sold more than a million copies in the United States
alone, and has recently been made into a motion picture
starring Tom Berenger and Joely Richardson.
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Lynch has illustrated about 20 books:

*A Bag of Moonshine, by Alan Garner
*Raggy Taggy Toys, by Joyce Dunbar
*Melisande, by E. Nesbit
*Fairy Tales of Ireland, by William Butler Yeats
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*East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon,
translated by George W. Dasent
*The Steadfast Tin Soldier, by Hans Christian Anderson
*The Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales, by Sarah Hayes
*The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Anderson
*Catkin, by Antonia Barber
*The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
by Susan Wojciechowski
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*The King of Ireland's Son, by Brendan Behan
*When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
*An ABC Picture Gallery, by P.J. Lynch
*Grandad's Prayers of the Earth, by Douglas Wood
*The Names Upon the Harp:
*Irish Myth and Legend, by Marie Heaney
*Ignis, by Gina Wilson
*The Bee-Man of Orn, by Frank R. Stockton
*A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
*The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
*Lincoln and His Boys by Rosemary Wells
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http://pjlynchgallery.blogspot.com/
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