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My Enemies Have Sweet Voices
...
I was blind side to the gutter
when Merlin happened by
asking, 'Why do you lie
her bleeding?'
I answered him, 'Magician,
as a matter of a fact
I was jumping to conclusions
when one of them jumped back.'
...
Pete Morgan
(June 7th 1939 — )
— Jun 09, 2026 08:42AM
...
I was blind side to the gutter
when Merlin happened by
asking, 'Why do you lie
her bleeding?'
I answered him, 'Magician,
as a matter of a fact
I was jumping to conclusions
when one of them jumped back.'
...
Pete Morgan
(June 7th 1939 — )
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Luis de Camoes, Portugal's great national poet and author of the epic poem, Os Lusiadas, died in Lisbon June 10th 1580.
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Simplify me when I'm dead
Keith Douglas
(January 24th 1920 — June 9th 1944)
Wounded by a land mine in 1943, Keith Douglas wrote from his hospital bed in Palestine in defence of his poetry: "I see no reason to be either musical or sonorous about things at present...I suppose I reflect the cynicism ... with which I view the world."
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Keith Douglas
(January 24th 1920 — June 9th 1944)
Wounded by a land mine in 1943, Keith Douglas wrote from his hospital bed in Palestine in defence of his poetry: "I see no reason to be either musical or sonorous about things at present...I suppose I reflect the cynicism ... with which I view the world."
Judi
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Darrion Domfort
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(July 28th 1844 — June 89th 1889)
...It is regarded as the first of Hopkins' series of so-called 'terrible sonnets', an epithet which refers to the inner despair and turmoil which gave rise to them.
— Jun 10, 2026 09:36AM
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(July 28th 1844 — June 89th 1889)
...It is regarded as the first of Hopkins' series of so-called 'terrible sonnets', an epithet which refers to the inner despair and turmoil which gave rise to them.
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Pierre Corneille, writer of 'Le Cid', born June 6th 1606
— Jun 08, 2026 12:26PM
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In the Desert
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?Stephen Crane
(November 1at 1871 — Jne 5th 1900)
... As a war correspondent he covered the Greco-Turkish war before settling in England, where he befriended the writers H.G. Wells, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad and ricocheted between poverty and wild partying.
— Jun 07, 2026 05:43AM
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?Stephen Crane
(November 1at 1871 — Jne 5th 1900)
... As a war correspondent he covered the Greco-Turkish war before settling in England, where he befriended the writers H.G. Wells, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad and ricocheted between poverty and wild partying.
Judi
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To Catherine Wordsworth 1808 —1812
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 — April 23rd 1850)
In early June 1812, while William was in London and Mary on her way to visit relatives in Hereford, the Wordsworth children were in the care of their aunts at the family home in Grasmere. Catherine suffered a convulsion in the night and died the following morning.
— Jun 06, 2026 04:24PM
William Wordsworth
(April 7th 1770 — April 23rd 1850)
In early June 1812, while William was in London and Mary on her way to visit relatives in Hereford, the Wordsworth children were in the care of their aunts at the family home in Grasmere. Catherine suffered a convulsion in the night and died the following morning.
Judi
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The Truth the Dead Know
For my mother, born March 1902, died March 1959,
and my father, born February 1900, died June 1959
Anne Sexton
(November 9th 1928 — October 4h 1974)
Anne Sexton was the third daughter born to Ralph and Mary Gray Staples Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts. Here father was a successful wool salesman and her mother the well-educated only child of adoring parents.
— Jun 05, 2026 07:22PM
For my mother, born March 1902, died March 1959,
and my father, born February 1900, died June 1959
Anne Sexton
(November 9th 1928 — October 4h 1974)
Anne Sexton was the third daughter born to Ralph and Mary Gray Staples Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts. Here father was a successful wool salesman and her mother the well-educated only child of adoring parents.
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John Lehman, poet and publisher, born in Buckinghamshire June 2nd 1907
— Jun 04, 2026 06:04AM
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From in Memoriam A.H.H.
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Alfred, Lort Tennyson
(August 6th 1809 — October 6th 1892)
Though this poem takes Arthur Hallam's funeral as its starting point, and Tennyson's sister Cecilia's marriage as its end, In Memoriam A.H.H. is not just a biographical poem. As Tennyson himself wrote to his friend James Knowles: "It is rather a cry of the whole human race than mine...
— Jun 02, 2026 07:32AM
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Alfred, Lort Tennyson
(August 6th 1809 — October 6th 1892)
Though this poem takes Arthur Hallam's funeral as its starting point, and Tennyson's sister Cecilia's marriage as its end, In Memoriam A.H.H. is not just a biographical poem. As Tennyson himself wrote to his friend James Knowles: "It is rather a cry of the whole human race than mine...
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman
(May 31st 1819 — March 26th 1892)
In one anonymous self-review, Whitman described 'the poet' as one of "pure American breed, of reckless health, his body perfect, free from taint from top to toe, free forever from headaches and dyspepsia, full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only — a swimmer in the river or by the ...
— Jun 01, 2026 06:05PM
Walt Whitman
(May 31st 1819 — March 26th 1892)
In one anonymous self-review, Whitman described 'the poet' as one of "pure American breed, of reckless health, his body perfect, free from taint from top to toe, free forever from headaches and dyspepsia, full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only — a swimmer in the river or by the ...
