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John Milton Poem
Lycidas
 by John Milton

In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately
drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637;
and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy,
then in their height.


Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more,
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
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Births on this day in history

  • 08/05/1916 - Peter Viereck - American poet and academic (d. 2006)
  • 08/05/1908 - Jose Garcia Villa - Filipino short story writer and poet (d. 1997)
  • 08/05/1813 - Ivar Aasen - Norwegian poet and linguist (d. 1896)

Deaths on this day in history

  • 08/05/1959 - Edgar Guest - English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
  • 08/05/1877 - Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai) - Welsh poet (b. 1830)