Poetry on Parade celebrates the language of poetry... and poetry in many languages. Let's take a look at Sparkle, a Lafayette Original written and performed in English by Emma. Sparkle continues, recited in French by Molly and in German by Gemma, helped along by their French and German-speaking Grandmothers!
From Sparkle to Twinkle: Here's an early nineteenth-century poem that became a popular lullaby, a soothing piece of music played or sung to young children. The poem includes six stanzas of rhyming couplets, although we usually sing only the first group of metrical lines.
The Star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark--
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
--Jane Taylor, Rhymes for the Nursery, 1806
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat!
How I wonder what you're at....
The Hatter's humorous imitation is interrupted by the Dormouse, leaving us to wonder and wonder and wonder how those final sparkling stanzas would go!
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