Plauge poems/nursery rhymes?
I need 5 poems or nursery rhymes about the plague.
none of them inculding ring around the rosy.
also, who can describe the 3 types of plauge?
I need 5 poems or nursery rhymes about the plague.
none of them inculding ring around the rosy.
also, who can describe the 3 types of plauge?
Comments
* A Litany in Time of Plague / Thomas Nashe http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-litany-in-time-of...
* The Plague - A Phantasy / Frederich Schiller http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/20691/
* The City of the Plague - John Wilson http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G2EUAAAAQAAJ&pr...
* Britain's Remembrancer / George Withers http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-UEwAAAAYAAJ&pg...
* Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss / Thomas Nashe http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F8ntY6XWcz0C&pg...
Sorry if these are rather heavy and literary, but there don't appear to be any nursery rhymes about the plague.
Though it appears in many books, the idea that "Ring around the Rosy" is about the plague is a popular myth that has been solidly debunked. See Ring a Ring o' Roses / Plague interpretation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Rose... ) and Snopes ( http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp ).
The three types of plague are:
1. Bubonic (which infects the lymph nodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague )
2. Pneumonic (which infects the lungs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonic_plague )
3. Septicaemic (which infects the blood and blood vessels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septicemic_plague ).