Month: May 2016
A Light Exists In Spring
A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here
A color stands abroad
On solitary hills
That science cannot overtake,
But human naturefeels.
It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
Then, as horizons step,
Or noons report away,
Without the formula of sound,
It passes, and we stay:
A quality of loss
Affecting our content,
As trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a sacrament.
– Emily Dickinson
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16th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1919 Liberace (flamboyant concert pianist)
Died:
1990 Jim Henson (puppeteer – The Muppets, Sesame Street)
On This Day:
1920 Jean of Arc is canonized as a Saint
Have a good Monday, 16th May
The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown
The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown
In Chrysoprase Apartments hung
This afternoon put on –
How condescending to descend
And be of Buttercups the friend
In a New England Town –
– Emily Dickinson
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15th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1987 Andy Murray (tennis player)
Died:
1886 Emily Dickinson (poet)
On This Day:
1905 Las Vegas founded
Have a good Sunday, 15th May
14th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1944 George Lucas (director of Star Wars)
Died:
1998 Frank Sinatra (singer)
On This Day:
1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up the Constitution of the United States
Have a good Saturday, 14th May
A Pang Is More Conspicuous In Spring
A Pang is more conspicuous in Spring
In contrast with the things that sing
Not Birds entirely – but Minds –
Minute Effulgencies and Winds –
When what they sung for is undone
Who cares about a Blue Bird’s Tune –
Why, Resurrection had to wait
Till they had moved a Stone –
– Emily Dickinson
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How Lonesome The Wind Must Feel Nights
How lonesome the Wind must feel Nights –
When people have put out the Lights
And everything that has an Inn
Closes the shutter and goes in –
How pompous the Wind must feel Noons
Stepping to incorporeal Tunes
Correcting errors of the sky
And clarifying scenery
How mighty the Wind must feel Morns
Encamping on a thousand dawns
Espousing each and spurning all
Then soaring to his Temple Tall –
– Emily Dickinson
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13th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1950 Stevie Wonder (singer)
Died:
2001 RK Narayan (Indian novelist)
On This Day:
1949 First jet bomber produced by the British – the Canberra – makes its first test flight
Have a good Friday, 13th May
The Notice That Is Called The Spring
The Notice that is called the Spring
Is but a month from here –
Put up my Heart thy Hoary work
And take a Rosy Chair.
Not any House the Flowers keep –
The Birds enamor Care –
Our salary the longest Day
Is nothing but a Bier.
– Emily Dickinson
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12th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1820 Florence Nightingale (pioneering nurse during the Crimean War)
Died:
1925 Alfred Milner (British Governor of the Cape Colony)
On This Day:
1215 The English barons serve an ultimatum on King John which leads to the drafting and signing of the Magna Carta
Have a good Thursday, 12th May
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