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!

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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There is a pain -- so utter --

There is a pain -- so utter -- It swallows substance up -- Then covers the Abyss with Trance -- So Memory can step Around...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully

9/2 (2023): India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.

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Declaiming Waters none may dread --

Declaiming Waters none may dread -- But Waters that are still Are so for that most fatal cause In Nature -- they are full --

Than Heaven more remote,

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...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as D

9/2 (1960): The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.

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Had I presumed to hope --

Had I presumed to hope -- The loss had been to Me A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake -- As Giants -- gone away...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is off

3/17 (1862): The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened.

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It would have starved a Gnat --

It would have starved a Gnat -- To live so small as I -- And yet I was a living Child -- With Food's necessity...

Fragment: 'Methought I Was a Billow in the Crowd'

Methought I was a billow in the crowd Of common men, that stream without a shore, That ocean which at once is deaf and loud; That I, a man, stood amid many more By a wayside..., which the aspect bore...

Epigram. From the French of RulhièRes

IF for silver, or for gold, You could melt ten thousand pimples Into half a dozen dimples, Then your face we might behold, Looking, doubtless, much more snugly, Yet even _then_ 'twould be damned ugly.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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On This Day: Northwest Indian War: General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St.

Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.

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On This Day: Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal co

7/20 (1807): Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.

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To Mary --

O Mary dear, that you were here With your brown eyes bright and clear. And your sweet voice, like a bird Singing love to its lone mate In the ivy bower disconsolate; Voice the sweetest ever heard! And your brow more...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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On This Day: Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".

7/14 (1902): Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".

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On This Day: Space Shuttle program: Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the program's final te

President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.

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A little Madness in the Spring

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown -- Who ponders this tremendous scene --...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Joh

Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.

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My Garden -- like the Beach

My Garden -- like the Beach -- Denotes there be -- a Sea -- That's Summer -- Such as These -- the Pearls She fetches...

To The River

Fair river!

Our little Kinsmen -- after Rain

Our little Kinsmen -- after Rain In plenty may be seen, A Pink and Pulpy multitude The tepid Ground upon. A needless life, it seemed...

To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems

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.

To F--

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.

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Edgar Allan Poe

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