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I saw no Way -- The Heavens were stitched -- I felt the Columns close -- The Earth reversed her Hemispheres -- I touched the...
The last of Summer is Delight -- Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -- Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it -- nameless as it is...
I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took From life's green tree his Uranian lute; And from his touch sweet thunder flowed, and shook All human things built in contempt of man,-- And sanguine thrones and impious altars quaked, Prisons and citadels...
3/15 (1927): The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
The fascinating chill that music leaves Is Earth's corroboration Of Ecstasy's impediment -- 'Tis Rapture's germination In timid and tumultuous soil A fine -- estranging...
1/1 (1772): The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
Not One by Heaven defrauded stay -- Although he seem to steal He restitutes in some sweet way Secreted in his will --
1/15 (1966): The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
11/9 (2011): The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m.
11/1 (1937): Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
1/1 (1773): The hymn that becomes known as "Amazing Grace", previously titled "1 Chronicles 17:16-17, Faith's Review and Expectation", is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
A Door just opened on a street -- I -- lost -- was passing by -- An instant's Width of Warmth disclosed -- And Wealth...
11/11 (1930): Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
vagula, Blandula, Hospes, comesque corporis, Quæ nunc abibis in Loca-- Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nec, ut soles, dabis Jocos?
What men gain fairly--that they should possess, And children may inherit idleness, From him who earns it--This is understood; Private injustice may be general good.
My Garden -- like the Beach -- Denotes there be -- a Sea -- That's Summer -- Such as These -- the Pearls She fetches...
Our little Kinsmen -- after Rain In plenty may be seen, A Pink and Pulpy multitude The tepid Ground upon. A needless life, it seemed...
I can write no stately proem As a prelude to my lay; From a poet to a poem I would dare to say. For if of these fallen petals One to you seem fair, Love will waft it till it settles On your hair.
2/12 (1818): Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
amid the earnest woes That crowd around my earthly path-- (Drear path, alas! where grows Not even one lonely rose)-- My soul at least a solace hath In dreams of thee, and therein knows An Eden of bland repose.
I DREAM’D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dream’d that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust...
If I'm lost -- now That I was found -- Shall still my transport be -- That once -- on me -- those Jasper Gates...
Time does go on -- I tell it gay to those who suffer now -- They shall survive -- There is a sun -- They...
What shall I do when the Summer troubles -- What, when the Rose is ripe -- What when the Eggs fly off in Music From...