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Land -- by the Oceans passed. Transport -- by throe -- Peace -- by its battles told -- Love, by Memorial Mold -- Birds, by the Snow.
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...
11/22 (1963): U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. Tippit after fleeing the scene. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn...
ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED-- 'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water.
12/25 (1100): Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
10/12 (1996): New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town, And then I took a pencil To note the rebels down. And then they grew so jolly I did resign the prig, And ten of my once stately toes Are marshalled for a jig!
Youth of delight! come hither And see the opening morn, Image of Truth new-born. Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason, Dark disputes and artful teazing. Folly is an endless maze; Tangled roots perplex her ways; How many have fallen there!
The first Day that I was a Life I recollect it -- How still -- That last Day that I was a Life I recollect...
Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved -- The Site -- of it -- by Architect Could not again be...
To her derided Home A Weed of Summer came -- She did not know her station low Nor Ignominy's Name -- Bestowed a summer long...
7/14 (1874): The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
11/1 (1956): The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
The Sea said "Come" to the Brook -- The Brook said "Let me grow" -- The Sea said "Then you will be a Sea --...
"Hope" is the thing with feathers -- That perches in the soul -- And sings the tune without the words -- And never stops --...
OH, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now; Cato died for his country, so did'st thou: He perished rather than see Rome enslaved, Thou cut'st thy throat that Britain may be saved! So Castlereagh has cut his throat!--The worst Of this...
I suppose the time will come Aid it in the coming When the Bird will crowd the Tree And the Bee be booming. I suppose...
THE angler rose, he took his rod, He kneeled and made his prayers to God. The living God sat overhead: The angler tripped, the eels...
"Faithful to the end" Amended From the Heavenly Clause -- Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors -- "Crowns of Life" are servile Prizes To the...
11/11 (1750): The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
7/20 (1936): The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
KIND Reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here HAROLD lies--but where's his Epitaph? If such you seek, try Westminster, and view Ten thousand just as fit for him as you.
In moments to delight devoted, "My Life!" with tenderest tone, you cry; Dear words! on which my heart had doted, If Youth could neither fade nor die. To Death even hours like these must roll, Ah!
9/2 (44): Cicero launches the first of his Philippicae (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.