Anglican Illustrations

'Twas a long Parting -- but the time

'Twas a long Parting -- but the time For Interview -- had Come -- Before the Judgment Seat of God -- The last -- and...

I never felt at Home -- Below

I never felt at Home -- Below -- And in the Handsome Skies I shall not feel at Home -- I know -- I don't...

So give me back to Death --

So give me back to Death -- The Death I never feared Except that it deprived of thee -- And now, by Life deprived, In...

Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: World War II: The provisional government of Béla Miklós in Hungary agrees to an armistice with the A

1/20 (1945): World War II: The provisional government of Béla Miklós in Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.

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On This Day: Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Re

7/14 (1789): Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France.

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Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the _Medea_ of Euripides

OH how I wish that an embargo Had kept in port the good ship Argo! Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks, Had never passed the Azure rocks; But now I fear her trip will be a Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.

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Spring comes on the World --

Spring comes on the World -- I sight the Aprils -- Hueless to me until thou come As, till the Bee Blossoms stand negative, Touched...

Fragment From the Wandering Jew

The Elements respect their Maker's seal! Still Like the scathed pine tree's height, Braving the tempests of the night Have I 'scaped the flickering flame.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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On This Day: Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion

2/12 (1947): Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.

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Fragment: 'The Viewless and Invisible Consequence'

The viewless and invisible Consequence Watches thy goings-out, and comings-in, And...hovers o'er thy guilty sleep, Unveiling every new-born deed, and thoughts More ghastly than those deeds--

You see I cannot see -- your lifetime

You see I cannot see -- your lifetime -- I must guess -- How many times it ache for me -- today -- Confess --...

Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 peopl

Only a handful of residents survive the blast.

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We talked as Girls do --

We talked as Girls do -- Fond, and late -- We speculated fair, on every subject, but the Grave -- Of ours, none affair --...

Whatever it is -- she has tried it --

Whatever it is -- she has tried it -- Awful Father of Love -- Is not Ours the chastising -- Do not chastise the Dove...

Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril

Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril Tree and Traveller stood -- Filled was the Air with merry venture Hearty with Boys the Road...

Hope is a strange invention --

Hope is a strange invention -- A Patent of the Heart -- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out -- Of this electric Adjunct Not...

To E--

Let Folly smile, to view the names Of thee and me, in Friendship twin'd; Yet Virtue will have greater claims To love, than rank with vice combin'd.

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Nature assigns the Sun --

Nature assigns the Sun -- That -- is Astronomy -- Nature cannot enact a Friend -- That -- is Astrology.

Adrian's Address to His Soul When Dying

vagula, Blandula, Hospes, comesque corporis, Quæ nunc abibis in Loca-- Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nec, ut soles, dabis Jocos?

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Where Thou art -- that -- is Home --

Where Thou art -- that -- is Home -- Cashmere -- or Calvary -- the same -- Degree -- or Shame -- I scarce esteem...

'Twould ease -- a Butterfly --

'Twould ease -- a Butterfly -- Elate -- a Bee -- Thou'rt neither -- Neither -- thy capacity -- But, Blossom, were I, I would...

On the Eyes of Miss a----H---

Anne's Eye is liken'd to the _Sun_, From it such Beams of Beauty fall; And _this_ can be denied by none, For like the _Sun_, it shines on _All_.