Month: May 2016
Spring Comes On The World
Spring comes on the World –
I sight the Aprils –
Hueless to me until thou come
As, till the Bee
Blossoms stand negative,
Touched to Conditions
By a Hum.
– Emily Dickinson
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11th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1977 Victor Matfield (South African rugby player)
Died:
1981 Bob Marley (reggae singer)
On This Day:
1858 Minnesota admitted as the 32nd State of the USA
Have a good Wednesday, 11th May
The Reticent Volcano Keeps
The reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan –
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.
If nature will not tell the tale
Jehovah told to her
Can human nature not survive
Without a listener?
Admonished by her buckled lips
Let every babbler be
The only secret people keep
Is Immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
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10th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1899 Fred Astaire (dancer and actor)
Died:
1818 Paul Revere (American patriot during American War of Independence)
On This Day:
1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa’s first black president
Have a good Tuesday, 10th May
The Inundation Of The Spring
The inundation of the Spring
Enlarges every soul –
It sweeps the tenement away
But leaves the Water whole –
In which the soul at first estranged –
Seeks faintly for its shore
But acclimated – pines no more
For that Peninsula –
– Emily Dickinson
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9th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1860 JM Barrie (author of Peter Pan)
Died:
2012 Vidal Sassoon (hairdresser and businessman)
On This Day:
1092 Consecration of Lincoln Cathedral
Have a good Monday, 9th May
Parting At Morning
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain’s rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me.
– Robert Browning
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8th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1926 David Attenborough (naturalist and TV / documentary presenter)
Died:
1982 Giles Villeneuve (racing driver)
On This Day:
1912 Paramount Pictures is founded
Have a good Sunday, 8th May
Home Thoughts, From The Sea
Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away;
Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay;
Bluish ‘mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay;
In the dimmest North-east distance dawned Gibraltar grand and grey;
“Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?” -say,
Whoso turns as I, this evening, turn to God to praise and pray,
While Jove’s planet rises yonder, silent over Africa.
– Robert Browning
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7th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1812 Robert Browning (poet)
Died:
2011 Seve Ballesteros (legendary golfer)
On This Day:
1800 Indiana Territory organised
Have a good Saturday, 7th May
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