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From Contemplation

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Streamed with the set of the world's harmonies,
In the long draft of whatsoever sphere
He lists the sweet and clear
Clangour of his high orbit on to roll,
So gracious is his heavenly grace;
And the bold stars does hear,
Every one in his airy soar,
For evermore
Shout to each other from the peaks of space,
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Francis Thompson
(December 18th 1859 — November 13th 1907)

Novelist and editor Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good Soldier and founder of the Transatlantic Review, born in Merton December 17th 1873. His poems 'Buckshee' express an old man's gratitude for a young woman's love.

The Last Word

Matthew Arnold
(December 24th 1822 — April 15th 1888)

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On Arnold's death, Browning wrote: "I shall hold in veneration—to my own dying day—the memory of one of the noblest and best men I ever knew and loved."

Woman to Child

Judith Wright
(May 31st 1915 — June 25th 2000)

...The images I use and also my methods no doubt reflect my ties to the landscape I live in. I tend to use 'traditional'—i.e., biological—rhythms more than free or new forms...jAs a woman poe the biological aspect of feminine experiencer has naturally been of importance in my work also.

Everness

Jorge Luis Borges
(August 24th 1889 — June 14th 1986)
translated by Richard Wilbur
(March 1st 1921 —)

... Borges went over all of the translations done, by various hands, for that book, and delighted me by saying that, in one line of another sonnet, I had improved on the original. I am sure that, in so saying, Borges was merely giving further proof of his notorious love of the English language."

Nice Day for a Lynching

Kenneth Patchen
(December 13th 1911 — January 8th 1972)

...He held a succession of jobs until the success of his first poetry collection Before the Brave in 1936 led him to focus on his (thereafter prolific) writing—the flavour of which is indicated by the title of his 1945 collection An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air: Being Some Poems Old and New Against War and in Behalf of Life.

Prospice
...,
For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave,
The black minute's at end,
And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave,
Shall dwindle, shall blend,
Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain,
Then a light, then thy breast,
O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again,
And with God be the rest!

Robert Browning
(May 7th 1812 — December 12th 1889)

From Vacillation
III

William Butler Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)

Yeats wrote "Vacillation" in his late sixties.

Emily Dickinson born n Amherst, Mass., December 10th 1830

Sonnet vii
How Soon Hath Time

John Milton
(December 9th 1608 — November 8th 1674)

Milton's father was a usurer, who made his money from loans and property. He supported Milton of years or study at home, after leaving Cambridge.