On the south wall of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey is a marble memorial to Edmund Spenser, poet and author of The Faerie Queene, which he dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I. Anne Clifford, Countess ...

Recently, the White House posted, "Roses are red/Violets are blue/come here illegally/and we'll deport you”. The rhyme used here is a cliche, but what are its origins? How did this phrase become so ...