Anna &+Charlotte

**Louisa May Alcott** by Anna and Charlotte



  'A little bird I am,  Shut from the fields of air,  And in my cage I sit and sing  To Him who placed me there:  Well pleased a prisoner to be,  Because, my God, it pleases Thee!
 * =**A Little Bird I Am** =

 'Naught have I else to do;  I sing the whole day long;  And He whom most I love to please  Doth listen to my song,  He caught and bound my wandering wing, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> But still He bends to hear me sing.' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Louisa May Alcott** <span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">[|__http://www.poemhunter.com/_] ||

<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">'Here's a nut, there's a nut; <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Hide it quick away, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> In a hole, under leaves, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> To eat some winter day. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Acorns sweet are plenty, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> We will have them all: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Skip and scamper lively <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Till the last ones fall.' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Louisa May Alcott** <span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">[|__http://www.poemhunter.com/__] || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Biography of Louisa May Alcott <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">By Anna Blake    <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: normal; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown Pennsylvania but was raised in Concord Massachusetts. She died on March 6, 1888 from pneumonia in Boston Massachusetts two days after her father died. During her childhood she was tutored until she was 16 years old. She was the second of four daughters. Until she was 16, Louisa was tutored by Henry Thoreau, Ralph Emerson, Theodore Parker, her father and many more. She was a very good student and loved to learn, "very happy hours they were to us..." she said. Other than being an author, throughout her life she was a teacher, seamstress, domestic servant, editor of Merry's museum in 1867, and a nurse at Union Hospital in Georgetown, DC from 1861 to 1863. Louisa was never married, she felt writing was her true passion in life. Surprisingly Louisa wished that she was born a boy. She had three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and Abby May. Her first book was Flower Fables, she wrote it when she was 22 and was paid $32.00.
 * =<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">**Here's A Nut** =

<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; vertical-align: super; white-space: normal;"> ====<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #00ff02; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;">Louisa May Alcott's Influence and Style ==== <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #00ff02; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 19px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;">by Charlotte Willauer

<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"> ====<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #00ff02; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"> When Louisa May Alcott was kid in the 1800's, she was taught to love and be apart of nature. She grew up and was influenced by writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorn. Many of these writers' poems and books were about nature, so Louisa liked their poetry very much. Many of Louisa's poems were based on nature, including //A Little Bird I am// and //I Write About a Butterfly.// Before she was a writer, she worked as a nurse writing little short stories and poems. But when she wrote //Hospital Sketches,// she decided to be a more serious writer. A lot of her writings are books, but she did write a well amount of poetry. And since she wrote more books, her poetry did not recieve much public recognition. Louisa's poems are all different lengths and none of them are a specific type. Not being a popular poet, not many people know a lot about her poems. Louisa May Alcott's poems have all different styles and are very interesting. ====

<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The Mysterious Cat <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">by Anna Blake

<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">I sit all day under the bed <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">still and quiet <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">like a statue <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">waiting, hiding from the outside life

<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Occasionally <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">I creep out <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Slow like a turtle <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Down the long spiral stairs

<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">I am a snake <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Slithering down a narrow mountain <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">I can see it <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The key to freedom

<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">I am no longer afraid <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Like I used to be <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">I left my home <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">And now Im free

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<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Brook <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The sun in the morning, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Glistens on the surface, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And the ducks are swimming too, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The water, goes SHHHHH, so soothing, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As it flows on and on

<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The sun by noon, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">is right above the water, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Making it warm as tea, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The water is so calm, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As it flows on and on

<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As night comes up, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The sun goes down, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And washes away the warmth, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Now the water is dark and cold, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As it flows on and on

<span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The moon by night, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">R <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">eflects like glass, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The SHHHH draws attention, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And the dark surrounds it, <span style="color: #ff009f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As it flows on and on