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Not Waving but Drowning
Stevie Smith
(September 20th 1902 — March 7th 1971)
..."I love death, I think it's the most exciting thing. As one gets older one gets into this — well it's like a race, before you get to the waterfall, when you feel the water slowly getting quicker and quicker, and you can't get out, and all you want to do is get to the waterfall and over the edge. How exciting it is!
— Mar 22, 2026 06:38AM
Stevie Smith
(September 20th 1902 — March 7th 1971)
..."I love death, I think it's the most exciting thing. As one gets older one gets into this — well it's like a race, before you get to the waterfall, when you feel the water slowly getting quicker and quicker, and you can't get out, and all you want to do is get to the waterfall and over the edge. How exciting it is!
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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...
— 5 hours, 4 min ago
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...
Judi
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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."
— 9 hours, 30 min ago
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
...
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)
Judi
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William Morris, poet, craftsman and socialist, born March 24th 1834.
— Mar 31, 2026 04:50AM
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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
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The Old Man's Comforts
and how he gained them
...
You are old Father William the young man cried,
And life must be hastening away;
You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death,
Now tell me the reason, I pray.
Robert Southety
(August 12th 1774 — March 21st 1843)
— Mar 29, 2026 05:44AM
and how he gained them
...
You are old Father William the young man cried,
And life must be hastening away;
You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death,
Now tell me the reason, I pray.
Robert Southety
(August 12th 1774 — March 21st 1843)
