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A Song of a Young Lady
to Her Ancient Lover
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
(April 1st 1647 — July 26th 1680)
John Wilmot was born in Ditchley in Oxforshire, ,with a Royalist father and a mother with a Parliamentarian background, who was nevertheless in the 1650s forced into exile with her children.
— Apr 04, 2026 06:41AM
to Her Ancient Lover
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
(April 1st 1647 — July 26th 1680)
John Wilmot was born in Ditchley in Oxforshire, ,with a Royalist father and a mother with a Parliamentarian background, who was nevertheless in the 1650s forced into exile with her children.
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Love And Sleep
Algernon Charles Swinburne
(?April 5th 1837 — Ariel 10th 1909)
...But his constitution became too frail for his Bohemian lifestyle — Rossetti would have to pin Swinburne's address to his coat collar as the only way to ensure his safe return from drinking bouts. For the last forty years of his life he lodged with his friend Theodore Watts-Dnton at No. 2 The Pines, Putney.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
(?April 5th 1837 — Ariel 10th 1909)
...But his constitution became too frail for his Bohemian lifestyle — Rossetti would have to pin Swinburne's address to his coat collar as the only way to ensure his safe return from drinking bouts. For the last forty years of his life he lodged with his friend Theodore Watts-Dnton at No. 2 The Pines, Putney.
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Still I Rise
Maya Angelou
(April 4 1928 — )
Maya Angelou has a volume of verse with the title And Still I Rise. Her spirit and joie de vivre seem intact despite a difficult upbringing — her parents broke up, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend, became mute for five years and was for a time a prostitute...
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Maya Angelou
(April 4 1928 — )
Maya Angelou has a volume of verse with the title And Still I Rise. Her spirit and joie de vivre seem intact despite a difficult upbringing — her parents broke up, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend, became mute for five years and was for a time a prostitute...
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Virtue
George Herbert
(Apri 3rd 1593 —‚ March 3rd 1633)
...As a young man, Herbert was ciricised for placing too much value one his noble ancestry, but as a priest he was noted for his humility and popularity, befriending all his parishioners and encouraging them to read. He wrote, "The Country Parson preachers constantly, the Pulpit is his joy and his throne." He died of consumption, aged 40.
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George Herbert
(Apri 3rd 1593 —‚ March 3rd 1633)
...As a young man, Herbert was ciricised for placing too much value one his noble ancestry, but as a priest he was noted for his humility and popularity, befriending all his parishioners and encouraging them to read. He wrote, "The Country Parson preachers constantly, the Pulpit is his joy and his throne." He died of consumption, aged 40.
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On April 2nd 1849, Tennyson read Palgrave songs for The Princess and poems on Hallam; "some exquisite," said Palgrave
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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."
— Apr 03, 2026 05:42PM
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."
