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To My Mother
George Barker
(February 26th 1913 — October 7th 1991)
.... He was a youthful prodigy, with a book of poems and a novel published at the age of 20. Yeats described him as "a lovely subtle mind", whose poetry showed "a rhythmical invention comparable to Gerard Hopkins".
— Mar 14, 2026 04:35PM
George Barker
(February 26th 1913 — October 7th 1991)
.... He was a youthful prodigy, with a book of poems and a novel published at the age of 20. Yeats described him as "a lovely subtle mind", whose poetry showed "a rhythmical invention comparable to Gerard Hopkins".
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Death, Be Not Proud
John donne
(c. June 1572 — March 31st 1631)
... getting dressed in his shroud to have his portrait painted, and then, according to Izaak Walton, "he was so happy to have nothing to do but to die ,,, As ... his last breath departed from him, he closed his own eyes, and then disposed his hands and body into such a posture, as required not the least alteration by those that came to shroud him."
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John donne
(c. June 1572 — March 31st 1631)
... getting dressed in his shroud to have his portrait painted, and then, according to Izaak Walton, "he was so happy to have nothing to do but to die ,,, As ... his last breath departed from him, he closed his own eyes, and then disposed his hands and body into such a posture, as required not the least alteration by those that came to shroud him."
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Thou art indeed just, Lord
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(July 28th 1844 — June 8th 1889)
Hopkins wrote this sonnet in the spring of 1889. Several months before he had felt a sense of despair whilst on a retreat of St Stanislaus's College, Tulamore: "What is my wretched life? Five wasted years almost have passed in Ireland...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
(July 28th 1844 — June 8th 1889)
Hopkins wrote this sonnet in the spring of 1889. Several months before he had felt a sense of despair whilst on a retreat of St Stanislaus's College, Tulamore: "What is my wretched life? Five wasted years almost have passed in Ireland...
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My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 —April 23rd 1850)
Their friend Coleridge considered this poem an expression of the truth that "men are ungrateful to others only when they have ceased to look back on their former selves with joy and tenderness. They exist in fragments."
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William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 —April 23rd 1850)
Their friend Coleridge considered this poem an expression of the truth that "men are ungrateful to others only when they have ceased to look back on their former selves with joy and tenderness. They exist in fragments."
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From Ode: Intimations of Immortality
from Recollectons of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 — April 23rd 1850)
in her Grasmere Journal for March 27th 1802, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy wrote: "A divine morning. At breakfast Wm. wrote part of an ode [above]. Mr Oliff sent the dung and Wm. went to work in the garden, We sate all day in the orchard."
— Apr 02, 2026 04:47AM
from Recollectons of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 — April 23rd 1850)
in her Grasmere Journal for March 27th 1802, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy wrote: "A divine morning. At breakfast Wm. wrote part of an ode [above]. Mr Oliff sent the dung and Wm. went to work in the garden, We sate all day in the orchard."
Judi
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The Destruction of Sennacherib
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And there lay the rider, distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail;
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances uplifted, the trumpet unblown,
George Gordon, Lord Byron
(January 22nd 1788 — April 19th 1824)
— Mar 31, 2026 12:34PM
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And there lay the rider, distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail;
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances uplifted, the trumpet unblown,
George Gordon, Lord Byron
(January 22nd 1788 — April 19th 1824)
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William Morris, poet, craftsman and socialist, born March 24th 1834.
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Imagination
John Davidson
(April 11th 1857 — March 23rd 1909)
.... Yeats described him in the British Museum Reading Room in about 1894. "I am writing verse," Davidson told him. "I had been writing prose for a long time, and then one day I thought I might just as well write what I liked, as I must starve in any case...
— Mar 30, 2026 02:34PM
John Davidson
(April 11th 1857 — March 23rd 1909)
.... Yeats described him in the British Museum Reading Room in about 1894. "I am writing verse," Davidson told him. "I had been writing prose for a long time, and then one day I thought I might just as well write what I liked, as I must starve in any case...
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Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe, German court official, theatre director, novelist, poet and dramatist (author of the poetic drama Faust), died March 22nd 1832.
— Mar 29, 2026 02:25PM
