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Happy the Man

John Dryden
(August 9th 1631 — May 1st 1700)
translating Horace (65 — 8 BC), Odes, Booke III, xxix

...At the Revolution of 1688 he lost his court position as Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal, returning first to the writing of plays and later to translations of Horace, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Boccaccio and others.

Byzantium

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Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood,
Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood.
The golden smithies of the Emperor!
Marbles of the dancing floor
Break blotter furies of complexity,
Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, the gong-tormented sea.

William Butler Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)

Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, died Aril 29th 1933.

Quantum est quod debit

Thomas Moore
(May 28th 1779 — February 25th 1852)

On this day in 1916, the Easter Rising in central Dublin was underway, led by the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Sinn Fein The Rising was put down, 350 of the rebels died, 2,000 were injured and the leaders were executed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson died April 27th 1882 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery close to Thoreau and Hawthorne.

The poet Thomas Lodge was admitted as a student at Lincoln's Inn April 26th 1578

Torquato Tasso, Italian poet, died April 25th 1595

Poet and writer Robert Penn Warren born in Guthrie, Kentucky, April 24th 1905

From As You Like it
Act II Scene vii

William Shakespeare
(Aril 23rd 1564 — April 23rd 1616)

Shakespeare was buried inside Stratford church with over the grave the lines:

Good friend, for Jesus's sake forbeare
to dig the dust enclosed heart;
Blest lie the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.

C. H. Sisson boern April 22nd 1914.