No time for the children to go to bed, by Lucy Pepper

No time for children to go to bed

WORLD DAY OF POETRY 2015

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

by Lord Byron

First Canto

XIV

On, on the vessel flies, the land is gone,

And winds are rude in Biscay's sleepless bay.

Four days are sped, but with the fifth, anon,

New shores described make every bosom gay;

And Cintra's mountain greets them on their way,

And Tagus dashing onward to the deep,

His fabled golden tribute bent to pay;

And soon on board the Lusian pilots leap,

And steer 'twixt fertile shores where yet few rustics reap.

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Origin of the idiom DOWN IN THE DUMPS

 It means low-spirited. The dumps was a mediaeval expression which meant melancholy and depression. It 1st appeared in Thomas More's A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation in 1529. It was also used by William Shakespeare. It is also said to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt who died of melancholy.

origin of the idiom FEELING DOWN IN THE MOUTH

it was 1st used in 1649 meaning blue, bad,depressed by Bishop Joseph Hall.
The corners of the mouth are turned down in disappointment.

Origin of the idiom FEELING BLUE

Blue is the colour that affects our mind. It has both positive and negative meanings. It means  not only intelligence and serenity,  but also coldness and unfriendliness. There several sources about the origin of the expression.
It was first used as an adjective meaning sad by the English Poet and Author Geoffrey Chaucer's Complaint of Mars in the 14th century, a poem about love and fate.
Other origin may may be a blue demon in the 17th century.
Different sources state that it comes from the tradition of ships flying blue flags and bearing a painted blue band when their captain died.