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The Windhover
To Christ our Lord
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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-black embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold -vermilion.
Gerard Manley Hopkins'(July 28gh 1844 — June 89th 1889)
— Aug 07, 2026 03:01PM
To Christ our Lord
...
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-black embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold -vermilion.
Gerard Manley Hopkins'(July 28gh 1844 — June 89th 1889)
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,
The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,
The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Thomas Gray
(December 26th 1716 — July 30th 1771)
— Aug 10, 2026 05:30AM
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,
The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,
The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Thomas Gray
(December 26th 1716 — July 30th 1771)
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U(rsula) A (selam( Fanthorpe was born in London July 29th 1929. One of her early poetry collections is Neck-Verse. She lives in Gloucestershire.
— Aug 08, 2026 04:34AM
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Poet and journalist Thomas Campbell born in Glasgow July 27th 1777.
— Aug 06, 2026 06:49PM
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"Hamlet, as it was lately acted by the Lord Chamberlains his Servants", entered on the Stationer's Register July 26th 1602.
— Aug 05, 2026 03:53PM
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Burns' posthumous son Maxwell born during Burns' funeral service, July 25th 1796.
— Aug 03, 2026 06:35PM
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July 24
Not to Sleep
Robert Graves
(July 24th 1895 — December 7th 1985)
On May 2nd 1963, Robert Graves wrote to James Reeves: "As a matter of record, I have never been so happy in my life as now: all the unhappiness of three years has peeled away. I wrote a poem two days ago beginning 'Not to sleep all the night gone, for pure joy...' which is one of the few poems of utter happiness ever written..this is mine,...
— Aug 03, 2026 04:37AM
Not to Sleep
Robert Graves
(July 24th 1895 — December 7th 1985)
On May 2nd 1963, Robert Graves wrote to James Reeves: "As a matter of record, I have never been so happy in my life as now: all the unhappiness of three years has peeled away. I wrote a poem two days ago beginning 'Not to sleep all the night gone, for pure joy...' which is one of the few poems of utter happiness ever written..this is mine,...
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From a Dialogue of Self and Soul
William Butler Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)
...because we have understood the beauty of what it brings, or a hatred of death for what it takes away, which arouses within us, though some sympathy perhaps with all other men, an energy so noble, so powerful, that we laugh aloud and mock, in the terror of the sweetness of our exaltation, at death and oblivion."
— Jul 29, 2026 07:05PM
William Butler Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)
...because we have understood the beauty of what it brings, or a hatred of death for what it takes away, which arouses within us, though some sympathy perhaps with all other men, an energy so noble, so powerful, that we laugh aloud and mock, in the terror of the sweetness of our exaltation, at death and oblivion."
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Robert Burns died in his 37th year July 21st 1796.
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Whoso List to Hunt
Sir Thomas Wyatt
(1503 — October 11th 1542)
based on a sonnet by Petrach
(July 20th 1304 — July 19th 1374)
Anne Gainsforth, one of Anne Boleyn's maids, gave this account of Wyatt's falling in love: "The knight in the beginning coming to be holden and surprised womewhat with the sight thereof, after much more with her witty and graceful speech, hsi ear all had him charge unto her so finally ...
— Jul 28, 2026 06:36AM
Sir Thomas Wyatt
(1503 — October 11th 1542)
based on a sonnet by Petrach
(July 20th 1304 — July 19th 1374)
Anne Gainsforth, one of Anne Boleyn's maids, gave this account of Wyatt's falling in love: "The knight in the beginning coming to be holden and surprised womewhat with the sight thereof, after much more with her witty and graceful speech, hsi ear all had him charge unto her so finally ...