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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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I wandered lonely as a cloud
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 — April 23rd 1850)
William's sister Dorothy described these daffodils by Ullswater in her Grasmere Journal for April 15th 1802: "We set off after dinner from Eusemere ... The wind was furious and we thought we must have returned ... The wind seized our breath, the Lake was rough ,..
— 22 hours, 9 min ago
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 — April 23rd 1850)
William's sister Dorothy described these daffodils by Ullswater in her Grasmere Journal for April 15th 1802: "We set off after dinner from Eusemere ... The wind was furious and we thought we must have returned ... The wind seized our breath, the Lake was rough ,..
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Dover Beach
...
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
...
Matthew Arnold
(December 24th 1822 — April 15th 1888)
— Apr 15, 2026 11:38AM
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Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
...
Matthew Arnold
(December 24th 1822 — April 15th 1888)
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From Memories of President Lincoln
(in Leaves of Grass)
O Captain! My Captain!
...
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exalt, O shores! and find, O bells!
Walt whitman
(May 31st 1819 — March 26th 1892)
— Apr 14, 2026 04:54PM
(in Leaves of Grass)
O Captain! My Captain!
...
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exalt, O shores! and find, O bells!
Walt whitman
(May 31st 1819 — March 26th 1892)
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From Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication
For Mari Heaney
Sunlight
Seamus Heaney
(April 13th 1939 — )
He won a scholarship to St Columbus College, and in 1965 became a lecturer and married Marie Devlin. The next year saw the publication of his first book of poems, Death of a Naturalist. Some of his recent poetry, The Haw Lantern (1987) and Seeing Things (1991), has been concerned with the death of his parents.
— Apr 13, 2026 04:57AM
For Mari Heaney
Sunlight
Seamus Heaney
(April 13th 1939 — )
He won a scholarship to St Columbus College, and in 1965 became a lecturer and married Marie Devlin. The next year saw the publication of his first book of poems, Death of a Naturalist. Some of his recent poetry, The Haw Lantern (1987) and Seeing Things (1991), has been concerned with the death of his parents.
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James Schyler, American poet who won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize, died on April 12th 1991
— Apr 12, 2026 08:55AM
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From A Song to David
Christopher Smart
(April 11th 1722 — May 21st 1771)
...By the age of 25 he was deeply in debt and in fear of his creditors. At the age of 34 he was admitted to the Bedlam asylum. There he was visited by Samuel Johnson, who concluded that Smart's behaviour was "not noxious to society.
— Apr 11, 2026 05:51PM
Christopher Smart
(April 11th 1722 — May 21st 1771)
...By the age of 25 he was deeply in debt and in fear of his creditors. At the age of 34 he was admitted to the Bedlam asylum. There he was visited by Samuel Johnson, who concluded that Smart's behaviour was "not noxious to society.
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On April 10th 1791, Burns' third son was born — a few days before his illegitimate daughter by Anne Park
— Apr 10, 2026 05:41AM
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Love's Immaturity
E. J. Scovell
(April 9th 1907 — October 19th 1999)
E(with) J(oy) Scovell was born in Sheffield, received a degree from Somerville College, Oxford, worked as an ecological field assistant in Brazil and Panama, had two children and lived in Oxford,
— Apr 09, 2026 05:16AM
E. J. Scovell
(April 9th 1907 — October 19th 1999)
E(with) J(oy) Scovell was born in Sheffield, received a degree from Somerville College, Oxford, worked as an ecological field assistant in Brazil and Panama, had two children and lived in Oxford,
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From The Jungle Books
Mowgli's Brothers (chapter heading)
Rudyard Kipliong
(December 30th 1865 — January 18th 1936)
...
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
The jackal may follow the tiger, but, Cub, when thy whiskers are grown,
Remember the wolf is a hunter — go forth and get food of thine own.
— Apr 08, 2026 05:24AM
Mowgli's Brothers (chapter heading)
Rudyard Kipliong
(December 30th 1865 — January 18th 1936)
...
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
The jackal may follow the tiger, but, Cub, when thy whiskers are grown,
Remember the wolf is a hunter — go forth and get food of thine own.
Judi
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From Ode: Intimations of Immortality
from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 — April 23rd 1850)
... The time of my infancy and early boyhood, was passed partly at Cockermouth, and partly with my mother's parents at Penlrith, where my mother, in the year 1778, died of a decline, brought on by a cold ...
— Apr 07, 2026 05:38AM
from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 — April 23rd 1850)
... The time of my infancy and early boyhood, was passed partly at Cockermouth, and partly with my mother's parents at Penlrith, where my mother, in the year 1778, died of a decline, brought on by a cold ...
