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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.

La Belle Dame sans Merci

...

""And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream'd—Ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dream'd
On the col hill's side.

"I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all'
Who cried—'La bell Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall !"

John Keats
(October 31st 1795 — February 23rd 1821)

Leisure

W. H. Davies
(April 20th 1871 — September 26th 1940)

... Most of the people he called upon were poor. The looked at the poet in amazement when he offered them a printed sheet for threepence. One richer woman, with a servant, gave him a penny, but refuse to accept the poems in return. When he reached his doss-house again that evening, he burnt every copy."

So We'll Go No More A-roving

George Gordon, Lord Byron
(January 22nd 1788 — April 19th 1824)

Writing to Thomas Moore some days later he reported that he had found "'the sword wearing out the scabbard; though I have just turned the corner of twenty nine...If I live ten years longer, you will see, however, that it is not over with me —...

6 A.M. Thoughts

Dick Cavis
(April 18th 1945 — )

He has edited a new edition of Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and his own poetry has been published in London under the title Devices and Desires. Thom Gumm commented on his work: "It is wonderful to find a poet (English) whose poetry lives through its metre. His handling of it is masterful, and you are never aware of effort."

From The Night

Henry Vaughan
(April 17th 1622 — Aril 23rd 1695)

Henry Vaughan termed himself a 'Silurist', a native of Brecon, the land of the ancient tribe of Silures.. His twin brother was an alchemist show interest in Hermeticism and magic Henry shared, although he himself was a country doctor.