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"The Star" (better known by its opening line, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star") is a nursery rhyme by 19th-century English poet Jane Taylor.
The Star[]
Merope (23 Tau) in Pleiades (M45). Photo by Henryk Kowalewski. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Jane Taylor)
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 traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
How could he see where to go,
If you did not twinkle so?
In the dark blue sky you keep,
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 traveler in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
History[]
English poet and novelist Jane Taylor (1783-1824) wrote the poem in 1806 at age 23, while living in Shilling Street, Lavenham, Suffolk.
The song based on the opening stanza of the poem is now known worldwide, but the full poem and its authorship is generally forgotten. It was originally published under the title "The Star" in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her older sister Ann (later Mrs. Gilbert). The sisters, and their authorship of various works, have often been confused, in part because their early works were published together.
Ann Taylor's son, Josiah Gilbert, wrote in her biography: "two little poems, 'My Mother,' and 'Twinkle, twinkle, little Star,' are perhaps, more frequently quoted than any; the first, a lyric of life, was by Ann, the second, of nature, by Jane; and they illustrate this difference between the sisters."[1]
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External links[]
- Poem
- The Star, by Jane Taylor at the Academy of American Poets
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star at the Poetry Foundation
- Audio / video