Pebble in the Sky was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title " Grow Old with Me " for Startling Stories, whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine.

It was rejected by Startling Stories on the basis that the magazine's emphasis was more on adventure than science-heavy fiction ( despite the editor inviting Asimov to write the latter as an experiment for the magazine ), and again by John W. Campbell, Asimov's usual editor.

Pebble in the Sky was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title " Grow Old with Me " for Startling Stories, whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine.

It was rejected by Startling Stories on the basis that the magazine's emphasis was more on adventure than science-heavy fiction ( despite the editor inviting Asimov to write the latter as an experiment for the magazine ), and again by John W. Campbell, Asimov's usual editor.

Sci Fi's Quest for Atlantis: Startling New Secrets followed several different groups researching possible locations for the legendary Atlantis, one of which focused on the Bimini Road.

While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, he is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales, and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region.

He was known for equipping his heroines with " brass bras " and implausible costumes, and the public image of science fiction in his day was partly created by his work for Startling and other magazines.

Startling was launched on a bimonthly schedule, alternating months with Thrilling Wonder Stories, though in 1940 Thrilling moved to a monthly schedule that lasted for over a year.

Most of the cover art was by Rudolph Belarski and Howard Brown in the early years, but when Earle Bergey began to paint covers for Startling in 1941, he quickly became identified with the magazine ; between 1942 and 1952 ( the year of Bergey's death ) he painted almost every cover.

Asimov delivered a draft in September, but after reading it Merwin asked for revisions: Leo Margulies, Merwin's boss, had decided that Startling needed to focus more on action and adventure, and less on cerebral stories in the style of Astounding.

When it folded with its Spring 1944 issue, the series of novels was continued for some time in the pages of Startling ; over the next six years ten more " Captain Future " novels appeared, with the last one, Birthplace of Creation, printed in the May 1951 issue.

Schomburg's first science fiction-themed cover was for the September 1939 issue of Startling Stories.

Renaming the studio " Startling Studios ", Starr made the facility available for use by other recording artists.

Warman recorded the entirety of the album Hour Glass at Startling Studio and remixed at Roundhouse Studios planned initially for release as Ring O ' Records 2339 202 in 1978.

The first use recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary of the phrase, to hell in a hand basket, is in The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details, by I. Windslow Ayer, in alleging that, at a meeting of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois said: " Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would ‘ send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.

The first use recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary of the phrase, to hell in a hand basket, was in The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details, an account by I. Windslow Ayer of events surrounding the Camp Douglas Conspiracy.

* Ayer, I. Windslow, The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details.

He concluded that " the only excuse which I have yet discovered for writing anything is that I want to write it ; and I should be as proud to be delivered of a Telephone Directory con amore as I should be ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others.

In chapter 2 ( Sura 2 ) of the Islamic Quran ( Verse 248 ), the Children of Israel, at the time of Samuel and Saul, were given back the Tabut E Sakina ( the casket of Shekhinah ) which contained remnants of the household of Musa ( Moses ) and Harun ( Aaron ) carried by angels which confirmed peace and reassurance for them from their Lord.

In the second half of 1945, Thomas began reading for the BBC Radio programme, Book of Verse, broadcast weekly to the Far East providing Thomas with a regular income and bringing him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished.

The name of the Philistines in their own language is not known ; however, the Bible also relates them as the people of " Kaftor " ( כפתור in Hebrew, see for example the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 47, Verse 4 ).

He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse ; much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids ( 1959 ).

* Silly Verse for Kids ( poems ) ( 1959 )

* Silly Verse for Kids and Animals ( poems ) ( 1984 )

Edmund Gosse, influenced by Théodore de Banville, was the first English writer to praise the villanelle and bring it into fashion with his 1877 essay " A Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of Verse ".

Consider " Oh that I had a Thousand Voices " (" O daß ich tausend Zungen hätte ") by German, Johann Mentzer Verse 2: " Ye forest leaves so green and tender, that dance for joy in summer air …" or " O Day Full of Grace " (" Den signede Dag ") by Dane, Nikolai Grundtvig verse 3: " Yea were every tree endowed with speech and every leaflet singing …".

Originally entitled The Faber Book of Verse for Younger People on the Faber contract, Hughes and Heaney decided the The Rattle Bags main purpose was to offer enjoyment to the reader: " Arbitrary riches ".

He has also written numerous works for children, including Fantastic Stories, The Beast with a Thousand Teeth, and a collection of Comic Verse called The Curse of the Vampire's Socks.

Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, " Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

Verse 19 of the Karpuradistotram ( Hymn to Kali ) lists humans as one of the species that are acceptable for sacrifice to the goddess.

The arrangements starts with a Tutti of strings and trumpets ( in Verse A ) that represents a brave and an elegant sound, and in the middle of the song ( in Verse B ) is played smoothly by strings, and finally ( in Verse C ) comes another Tutti of strings and trumpets with beautiful contrapuntal background of cornos, and together with timpanis and cymbals make it a brave sound for a national anthem that respected by the people.

In 1926, he won the Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose for translating a section of Thomas More's Utopia into Platonic prose, and the following year won the Prize again ( for Verse ) for a translation of part of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung into Homeric hexameters.

Verse 2, however, involves a ♭ VI -♭ VII-I Aeolian ascent: " waiting " ( F chord ) " for the van " ( G chord ) " to come " ( A chord ).

In 1727 he wrote for six year old Prince William, later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he naturally hoped to gain some preferment, although he has much to say in them of the servility of courtiers and the vanity of court honours.

He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered together in All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 – 71 ( 1985 ), and he edited The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ( 1973 ).

In 2010, his single " Save the One, Save the All " was used as the ending theme song for the movie Bleach: Hell Verse.

In this key, the congregation joins in the singing of the hymn known as Old Hundredth Psalm Tune, which misses out verses 2 and 5 and begins with the words “ All people that on earth do dwell .” The semichorus sings an upliftingly beautiful descant in Verse 2, rising up to a top B on the word it in For it is seemly so to do.

* Floored Masterpieces with Worse Verse ( poems ) ( 1985 ) ( with Tracey Boyd )

It was first published in the August 1913 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse which had begun publishing the year before in Chicago, Illinois and was included as the title poem in a collection of poems Trees and Other Poems ( 1914 ).

His Essais en vers et en prose ( Attempts in Verse and Prose, 1797 ) contains the Marseillaise ; a prose tale Adelaide et Monville of the sentimental kind ; and some occasional poems.

His own efforts to " free " verse resulted in the poems he called " Neo-Miltonic Syllabics ", which were collected in New Verse ( 1925 ).

* Three poems from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250 – 1900 at Bartleby. com

He contributed poems to Public School Verse whilst at St Austell Grammar School.

A poem by Bodenheim featured in the 1917 Others: An Anthology of the New Verse, which also included poems by such future luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens ' " Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ".

While still at school some of his poems were selected by Richard Hughes for the anthology Public School Verse, which brought him to the attention of writers such as Edith Sitwell.

The poems he wrote at the university — Hermann, an epic ( published by F. Muncker, 1886 ), Zwölf moralische Briefe in Versen ( Twelve Moral Letters in Verse, 1752 ), Anti-Ovid ( 1752 ) — are pietistic in tone and dominated by the influence of Klopstock.

In 1855 his narrative poems, original and translated, were collected under the title Stories in Verse.

Lamar's volume of poems " Verse Memorials " was published in 1857.

The work is divided into three sections: the first has some of Dodsley's fables prefaced by a short prose moral ; the second has ' Fables with Reflections ', in which each story is followed by a prose and a verse moral and then a lengthy prose reflection ; the third, ' Fables in Verse ', includes fables from other sources in poems by several unnamed authors.

The work is divided into three sections: the first has some of Dodsley's fables prefaced by a short prose moral ; the second has ' Fables with Reflections ', in which each story is followed by a prose and a verse moral and then a lengthy prose reflection ; the third, ' Fables in Verse ', includes fables from other sources in poems by several unnamed authors ; in these the moral is incorporated into the body of the poem.

' Hallam ’ s father collected together many of his son ’ s writings-excluding his letters and poems he thought unsuitable-and published them privately: Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam ( 1834 ).

Because of this, Pitter was frequently overlooked by critics of her day, and has only in recent years been seen as important: her reputation was helped by Larkin's respect for her poetry ( he included four of her poems in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ).

1936 saw the publication of Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Verse, which contained seventeen of Gogarty's poems and an introduction proclaiming him " one of the great lyric poets of our age.

At Cambridge, Whitehead published an epistle On the Danger of writing Verse and some other poems, notably an heroic epistle, Ann Boleyn to Henry the Eighth ( 1743 ), and a didactic Essay on Ridicule, also ( 1743 ).

* Three poems are mentioned involving the Verse Fluctuation Declaration:

These translations are widely regarded as poems in their own right, and have been included in many anthologies such as the Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935, Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse and Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse ( 1918-1960 ) under Waley's name.

" Pratt's poetry frequently reflects his Newfoundland background, though specific references to it appear in relatively few poems, mostly in Newfoundland Verse ," says The Canadian Encyclopedia.