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The Waking
Theodore Roethke
(May 25th 1908 — August 1st 1963)
...In 1953, he married Beatrice Heath O'Connell, a student at Bennington College from the time he taught there. In that year too, several of Roethke's more autobiographical poems appeared in his collection The Waking,
Jay Parini describes Roethke as "a latter-day transcendentalist, finding spiritual correspondences in physical things".
— Aug 16, 2026 08:23PM
Theodore Roethke
(May 25th 1908 — August 1st 1963)
...In 1953, he married Beatrice Heath O'Connell, a student at Bennington College from the time he taught there. In that year too, several of Roethke's more autobiographical poems appeared in his collection The Waking,
Jay Parini describes Roethke as "a latter-day transcendentalist, finding spiritual correspondences in physical things".
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The Dead at Clonmacnois
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Many and many a son of Conn the Hundred-Fighter
In the red earth lies at rest;
Many a blue eye of Clan Colman the turf covers,
Many a swan-white breast.
Thomas William rolleston
(May 1st 1857 — December 5th 1920)
based on an original poem in Irish by Angus O'Gillan
— Aug 23, 2026 08:00PM
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Many and many a son of Conn the Hundred-Fighter
In the red earth lies at rest;
Many a blue eye of Clan Colman the turf covers,
Many a swan-white breast.
Thomas William rolleston
(May 1st 1857 — December 5th 1920)
based on an original poem in Irish by Angus O'Gillan
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Parting in Wartime
How long ago Hector took off his plume,
Not wanting that his little son should cry,
Then kissed his sad Andromache goodbye —
And now we three in Euston waiting-room
Francis Comford
(March 30th 886 — August 19th 1960)
— Aug 21, 2026 06:37AM
How long ago Hector took off his plume,
Not wanting that his little son should cry,
Then kissed his sad Andromache goodbye —
And now we three in Euston waiting-room
Francis Comford
(March 30th 886 — August 19th 1960)
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Song: To Celia
Ben Jonson
(June 11th 1572 — August 6th 1637
— Aug 19, 2026 02:09PM
Ben Jonson
(June 11th 1572 — August 6th 1637
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Shelley arrive to visit Byron at Ravenna on August 5th, 1821, and found inside Byron's "Circean Palace", the home of his lover Countess Guiccioli, there monkeys, five cats, eight dogs, an eagle, a crow, a falcon, five peacocks, two guinea hens and an Egyptian crane. "I wonder who all this animals were," Shelley wrote, "before they were changed into these shapes"
— Aug 18, 2026 08:36PM
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From Prometheus Unbound
(August 4th 1792 — July 89th 1822)
...Eventually, Sir Timothy and Harriets father felt obliged to give Shelley an annuity of £400 a year, to prevent him "cheating strangers" and leaving a trail of unpaid debts behind him —which Shelley did, nevertheless, escaping to Italy and being a total of some £25,000 in debt by the time of his death.
— Aug 18, 2026 06:08AM
(August 4th 1792 — July 89th 1822)
...Eventually, Sir Timothy and Harriets father felt obliged to give Shelley an annuity of £400 a year, to prevent him "cheating strangers" and leaving a trail of unpaid debts behind him —which Shelley did, nevertheless, escaping to Italy and being a total of some £25,000 in debt by the time of his death.
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From The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
(Café des Westens, Berlin, May 1912)
Rupert Brooke
(August 3rd 1887 — April 23rd 1915)
On April 25th 1912, Brooke wrote to Ka Cox: "I'm just passing through Potsdam. I've a fancy you may be, just now, in Grantchester. I envy you frightfully. That river and the chestnuts — come back to me a lot. Tea on the lawn.
— Aug 17, 2026 08:31PM
(Café des Westens, Berlin, May 1912)
Rupert Brooke
(August 3rd 1887 — April 23rd 1915)
On April 25th 1912, Brooke wrote to Ka Cox: "I'm just passing through Potsdam. I've a fancy you may be, just now, in Grantchester. I envy you frightfully. That river and the chestnuts — come back to me a lot. Tea on the lawn.
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On August 2nd 1787 Robert Burns wrote an autobiographical letter to Dr. Moore which is the main source of information on his early life.
— Aug 17, 2026 09:07AM
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On this day in 1805, John Johnson, William Cooper's cousin, recorded Lady Hesketh's fears concerning Blakes's rages and supposed madness: "I don't doubt," she told Johnson, that Blake "will poison [his patron Hayley] ... in his Turret or set fire to all his papers."
— Aug 16, 2026 06:28AM
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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