Poem of the day
Dusk In War Time
by Sara Teasdale
A half-hour more and you will lean
To gather me close in the old sweet way-
But oh, to the woman over the sea
Who will come at the close of day?
A half-hour more and I will hear
The key in the latch and the strong, quick tread-
But oh, the woman over the sea
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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
Michael Parenti
Comments about poets
Thierry Ubiplanet.me: [7:58 PM] The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ~Eden Phillpotts
ledrew fox: The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits
to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts
John W. Farrell: For today's poem, April 4th, we channel Matthew Arnold.
Patricia Evans: One of my favorite poems is “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes. He writes of Tim, the ostler, “dumb as a dog he listened.” Watching Trump at the briefings, he reminds me of Tim, right down to his “white and peaked” face, “hollows of madness” eyes and “hair like mouldy hay.”
Public Domain Song Bot: Waltzing Matilda
Music: Christina Macpherson, 1895
Lyrics: Banjo Paterson, 1895
Irregular Circle: Saturday Drawing of sorts...a decorated line of poetry or phrase. Here's mine inspired by Christina Rossetti's 'What is Pink?' A break from screens is a good thing.
a quote bot: “Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream’s sake.” -Christina Rossetti
amrsoliman: To what purpose, April, do you return again?
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Spring” featured in Selected Poems .
Portfolio Carmel: down, down, down
into the darkness of the grave
gently they go, the beautiful,
the tender, the kind;
quietly they go, the intellingent,
the witty, the brave.
I know.
but I do not approve.
and I am not resigned.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Caitlin Archer-Helke: Spring is from Edna St. Vincent Millay's Second April, which starts
"To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough."
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
BlackMirror: Apt. Reminded me of John Masefield's- I have seen flowers come in stony places. And kind things done by men with ugly faces. And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.
78tiger: I was going through my hoarder-like collection of books to try to clean up and found “Jim Davis”, a 1911 children’s novel by famed British poet John Masefield. Talk about casual racism; the teenage narrator has a horse named N-word. Tossed.
toniii: "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret"
- Ambrose Bierce
Arun Jayaprakash: “IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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Births on this day in history
- 04/05/1904 - Richard Eberhart - American poet and academic (d. 2005)
- 04/05/1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne - English poet
- 04/05/1835 - Vítězslav Hálek - Czech poet
- 04/05/1793 - Casimir Delavigne - French poet and dramatist (d. 1843)
Deaths on this day in history
- 04/05/2017 - Makoto Ōoka - Japanese poet and literary critic (b. 1931)
- 04/05/1997 - Allen Ginsberg - American poet (b. 1926)
- 04/05/1941 - Parvin E'tesami - Persian poet (b. 1907)
- 04/05/1934 - Salvatore Di Giacomo - Italian poet
- 04/05/1765 - Edward Young - English poet and author (b. 1683)
- 04/05/1712 - Jan Luyken - Dutch poet