Low German Poems - Poems about Low German

... In 1755 a British army medical surgeon Richard Shuckburgh, while campaigning in Rensselaer New York, penned the nursery rhyme Yankee Doodle. This was used to mock the Colonists by the......Read the rest...

...he taught simple terms. simple word usage. he also taught what was referred to as controversial. words that had double meaning, and words that spelled backward were precursors to debate. They ......Read the rest...

...Rodeheaver Name Meaning topographic name from Middle Low German roden, Middle High German roten ‘to clear’ + Middle High German hou ‘assart’, ‘area of forest assigned for clearing’. Alternatively, th......Read the rest...

...There Winter Lonely Fallows Deeply Dream Long after that ripe golden sunset gleam Cool silvery tones, wavering light; Then winter lonely fallows deeply dream Into the grayish ghostliness of n......Read the rest...