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She's happy, with a new Content -- That feels to her -- like Sacrament -- She's busy -- with an altered Care -- As just...
Estranged from Beauty -- none can be -- For Beauty is Infinity -- And power to be finite ceased Before Identity was leased.
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.
The Road was lit with Moon and star -- The Trees were bright and still -- Descried I -- by the distant Light A Traveller...
9/2 (1957): President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
11/1 (1790): Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see The wantonest singing birds, Are lips--and all thy melody Of lip-begotten words-- Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined Then desolately fall, O God!
I see thee better -- in the Dark -- I do not need a Light -- The Love of Thee -- a Prism be --...
The way Hope builds his House It is not with a sill -- Nor Rafter -- has that Edifice But only Pinnacle -- Abode in...
1/1 (1739): Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island, is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
7/4 (1837): Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1/1 (1959): Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces.
The fierce beasts of the woods and wildernesses Track not the steps of him who drinks of it; For the light breezes, which for ever fleet Around its margin, heap the sand thereon.
Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought Nurtures within its unimagined caves, In which thou sittest sole, as in my mind, Giving a voice to its mysterious waves--
Flowers -- Well -- if anybody Can the ecstasy define -- Half a transport -- half a trouble -- With which flowers humble men: Anybody...
Absent or present, still to thee, My friend, what magic spells belong! As all can tell, who share, like me, In turn thy converse, and thy song.
5/8 (2025): The 2025 papal conclave elects Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, taking the name Leo XIV as the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church.
1/1 (1863): American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
7/14 (1943): In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
2/14 (1961): Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
7/4 (2004): Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history.
Angels, in the early morning May be seen the Dews among, Stooping -- plucking -- smiling -- flying -- Do the Buds to them belong?...
O THOU Great Being! what Thou art, Surpasses me to know; Yet sure I am, that known to Thee Are all Thy works below. Thy creature here before Thee stands, All wretched and distrest; Yet sure those ills that wring...
7/4 (1946): After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.