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The Sun is gay or stark According to our Deed. If Merry, He is merrier -- If eager for the Dead Or an expended Day...
You are very far -- But were no one Farther than you -- Do you think I'd stop For a Firmament -- Or a Cubit -- or so?
Kneller, by Heaven, and not a master, taught, Whose art was Nature, and whose pictures Thought; Now for two ages having snatch'd from Fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with princes' honours, poets' lays, Due to...
1/1 (1502): The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is first explored by the Portuguese.
I READ the "Christabel;" Very well: I read the "Missionary;" Pretty--very: I tried at "Ilderim;" Ahem! I read a sheet of "Marg'ret of _Anjou_;" _Can you_? I turned a page of Webster's "Waterloo;" Pooh! I looked at Wordsworth's milk-white "Rylstone Doe;" Hillo!
Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,-- In thy place--ah! well-a-day! We find the thing we fled--To-day.
9/2 (1960): The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate -- Would a Smile's minute bestowing Too exorbitant To the Lady With the Guinea Look -- if She...
THIS moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone, It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful; It seems to me I can look over and behold them, in Germany, Italy, France, Spain—or far, far away,...
I would not wish the burning blaze Of fame around a restless world, The thunder and the storm of praise In crowded tumults heard and hurled.
Than Heaven more remote, For Heaven is the root, But these the flitted seed. More flown indeed Than ones that never were, Or those that...
Where man's profane and tainting hand Nature's primaeval loveliness has marred, And some few souls of the high bliss debarred Which else obey her powerful command; ...mountain piles That load in grandeur Cambria's emerald vales.
I noticed People disappeared When but a little child -- Supposed they visited remote Or settled Regions wild -- But did because they died A...
Gather, O gather, Foeman and friend in love and peace! Waves sleep together When the blasts that called them to battle, cease. For fangless Power grown tame and mild Is at play with Freedom's fearless child-- The dove and the serpent reconciled!
9/11 (1829): An expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown to retake Mexico, surrenders at the Battle of Tampico, marking the effective end of Spain's resistance to Mexico's campaign for independence.
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown -- Who ponders this tremendous scene --...
1/20 (1961): John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Roman Catholic.
JACOBUS CRAGGS REGI MAGNAE BRITANNIA A SECRETIS ET CONSILIIS SANCTIORIBUS, PRINCIPIS PARITER AC POPULI AMOR ET DELICIAE: VIXIT TITULIS ET INVIDIA MAJOR ANNOS, HEU PAUCOS, XXXV. Statesman, yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear!
12/24 (1906): Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
He resigns a month later to join the newly elected John F. Kennedy administration.
From all the Jails the Boys and Girls Ecstatically leap -- Beloved only Afternoon That Prison doesn't keep They storm the Earth and stun the...
7/14 (1951): Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
WHEN the sun comes after rain And the bird is in the blue, The girls go down the lane Two by two. When the sun comes after shadow And the singing of the showers, The girls go up the meadow, Fair as flowers.
Fair river!