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I hide myself within my flower, That fading from your Vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me -- Almost a loneliness.
If I should cease to bring a Rose Upon a festal day, 'Twill be because beyond the Rose I have been called away -- If...
BENEATH Blessington's eyes The reclaimed Paradise Should be free as the former from evil; But if the new Eve For an Apple should grieve, What mortal would not play the Devil?
1/1 (1860): The first Polish postage stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.
6/19 (1985): Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
These are the Signs to Nature's Inns -- Her invitation broad To Whosoever famishing To taste her mystic Bread -- These are the rites of...
Suspense -- is Hostiler than Death -- Death -- tho'soever Broad, Is Just Death, and cannot increase -- Suspense -- does not conclude -- But...
2/14 (1954): First Indochina War - small French garrison at Đắk Đoa is overrun by the Viet Minh after a week's siege.
GIVE me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out "hold, enough!" You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection: For, bless...
9/2 (1957): President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light Speed thee in thy fiery flight, In what cavern of the night Will thy pinions close now? Tell me, Moon, thou pale and gray Pilgrim of Heaven's homeless way, In what depth...
FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO. Kissing Helena, together With my kiss, my soul beside it Came to my lips, and there I kept it,-- For the poor thing had wandered thither, To follow where the kiss should guide it, Oh, cruel I, to intercept it!
The world is taking little heed And plods from day to day: The vulgar flourish like a weed, The learned pass away. We miss him on the summer path The lonely summer day, Where mowers cut the pleasant swath And maidens make the hay.
How happy I was if I could forget To remember how sad I am Would be an easy adversity But the recollecting of Bloom Keeps...
11/1 (1922): Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
4/22 (1836): Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
If I walk in Autumn's even While the dead leaves pass, If I look on Spring's soft heaven,-- Something is not there which was Winter's wondrous frost and snow, Summer's clouds, where are they now?
3/15 (1907): The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held.
Nature affects to be sedate Upon occasion, grand But let our observation shut Her practices extend To Necromancy and the Trades Remote to understand Behold...
3/17 (2004): Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care --...
Still to be neat, still to be dressed, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Somewhat, to hope for, Be it ne'er so far Is Capital against Despair -- Somewhat, to suffer, Be it ne'er so keen -- If terminable,...
The sacred song that on mine ear Yet vibrates from that voice of thine, I heard, before, from one so dear-- 'T is strange it still appears divine.