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Rough wind, that moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main,-- Wail, for the world's wrong!
1/15 (1822): Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
The Notice that is called the Spring Is but a month from here -- Put up my Heart thy Hoary work And take a Rosy...
7/4 (1778): American Revolutionary War: US forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies As the Vulture teased Forces the Broods in lonely Valleys As the Tiger eased By but a Crumb...
No Autumn's intercepting Chill Appalls this Tropic Breast -- But African Exuberance And Asiatic rest.
One Day is there of the Series Termed Thanksgiving Day. Celebrated part at Table Part in Memory. Neither Patriarch nor Pussy I dissect the Play...
7/20 (2019): Soyuz MS-13 is launched to the International Space Station on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The odour from the flower is gone Which like thy kisses breathed on me; The colour from the flower is flown Which glowed of thee and only thee!
Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast -- Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest! Please God,...
Talk not to me of Summer Trees The foliage of the mind A Tabernacle is for Birds Of no corporeal kind And winds do go...
12/25 (1951): A bomb explodes at the home of Harry T. Moore and Harriette V. Moore, early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette.
YOUR friendship much can make me blest, O why that bliss destroy! Why urge the only, one request You know I will deny! Your thought, if Love must harbour there, Conceal it in that thought; Nor cause me from my...
I heard thy fate without a tear, Thy loss with scarce a sigh; And yet thou wast surpassing dear, Too loved of all to die. I know not what hath seared my eye-- Its tears refuse to start; But every...
And like a dying lady, lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, The moon arose up in the murky East, A white and shapeless mass--
The Butterfly in honored Dust Assuredly will lie But none will pass the Catacomb So chastened as the Fly --
3/17 (1958): The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.
1/1 (1962): Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
My thoughts arise and fade in solitude, The verse that would invest them melts away Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day: How beautiful they were, how firm they stood, Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!
Midsummer, was it, when They died -- A full, and perfect time -- The Summer closed upon itself In Consummated Bloom -- The Corn, her...
THE summer sun shone round me, The folded valley lay In a stream of sun and odour, That sultry summer day. The tall trees stood...
10/12 (1945): World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
9/11 (9): The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years.