On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 11:40:03 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> On 2022-05-16 4:22 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
> > George J. Dance wrote:
> >>
> >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog
> >> May, by Rebecca Hey
> >
> >> The clouds "have wept their fill" the whole night long,
> >> And what a change is wrought! But yesterday,
> >> We look'd around, and scarce could deem that May,
> >> The poet's theme,— the month of flowers and song,—
> >> Could do her own sweet lineaments such wrong
> >> [...]
> >
> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/05/may-rebecca-hey.html
> >
> > Thanks G.D
> >
> > I am a major fan of Rebecca Hey....
> >
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> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Hey
> >
> > Rebecca Hey (née Roberts), also known as Mrs Hey, (1797–1859) was an
> > English botanical artist and poet.
> >
> > Biography
> > Rebecca Hey was born in Leeds and baptised at St. Peter on 21 April
> > 1797. She was the third daughter of merchant Thomas Roberts and Esther
> > Lucy.[1] She married William Hey III (1796-1875) in 1821.[2] He was an
> > apothecary-surgeon, who became principal surgeon at Leeds General
> > Infirmary in 1830, and with other medical practitioners set up the Leeds
> > School of Medicine in 1831.[3] William Hey was one of the original 300
> > Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843.[4]
> >
> >
> > Plate from Sylvan Musings; or The Spirit of the Woods by Rebecca Hey (1837)
> > Rebecca Hey's first book was called The Moral of Flowers, which was an
> > encyclopaedia of English flowers. Each article was written by her and
> > was preceded by a colour engraving of a painting of the flower by artist
> > William Clark, former draughtsman and engraver of the London
> > Horticultural Society.[5] In the preface Hey credits the authors Sir J.
> > E. Smith and Mr Drummond for the botanical information included in the
> > descriptions.[6] Moral of Flowers focuses on flower poems that convey
> > religious and moral messages, with a modest amount of botanical
> > information including flowers' scientific names. Hey’s purpose is to
> > “draw such a moral from each flower that is introduced as its
> > appearance, habits, or properties might be supposed to suggest".[7] The
> > book was popular and was reprinted in 1835 and 1849.[8]
> >
> > Hey's next book was an encyclopaedia of trees, this time using her own
> > paintings as well as her poems. Her works were originally published
> > anonymously.[9]
> >
> > Her final publication Holy Places, and Other Poems focused more on
> > religion and the proceeds from the book went to Special Missions in India
> >
> > Selected Works
> > The Moral of Flowers (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green &
> > Longman, 1833)[11]
> >
> > Sylvan Musings; or The Spirit of the Woods (London: Longman, Brown,
> > Green & Longmans, 1837)[12]
> >
> > Recollections of the Lakes, and Other Poems (London: Tilt & Bogue,
> > 1841)[13]
> >
> > Holy Places, and Other Poems (London: J. Hatchard, 1859)
> >
> > ***********************************************************************
> Thanks, Zod. This is new: Rebecca Hey finally has an article on
> Wikipedia. I can see from the history that it went up in Nov. '21, 2
> years after mine, but it already has information that mine doesn't.
> That's to be expected -- there are 6 different Wikiproject groups
> collaborating on that article, vs one person working on mine -- and
> reading it can only improve mine, since all their info is licensed for
> use.
>
> It's good to see Hey get that level of recognition. Many more people
> will find out about her there than via PPP, and some of them at least
> will search for her poems and find her calendar of sonnets on PPB.

Hello and good read.....