Summer for thee grant I may beWhen summer days are flown!Thy music still when whippoorwillAnd oriole are done! For thee to bloom, I’ll skip the tombAnd sow my blossoms o’er!Pray gather me, Anemone,Thy flower forevermore! Emily Dickinson – Poems (1858) In this poem Emily Dickinson claims that love can do anything. Even death becomes nothing,… Read More Anemone
Singer, songwriter Barry Eugene Carter, better known by his stage name Barry White, was born on 12 September 1944 in Galveston, Texas. His successful career spanned five decades, and made him a star of the disco era.He died of kidney failure caused by hypertension in 2003, aged 58. One of his most romantic songs was:… Read More Barry White
Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born on this day, 4 September.She was an English-South African writer, best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes. In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe,… Read More Mary Renault
Dorothy Parker, American writer, poet, and critic, was born on 22 August 1893. She said “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue” (1), and her tongue was really like a razor blade: she became known for her wit and her sharp commentary on contemporary America. As… Read More “The first thing I do in the morning … ”
Alfred Tennyson was a British poet born on 6 August 1809. His long poem “In Memoriam” (1849) written in remembrance of his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who had suddenly died of a cerebral haemorrhage when he was only 22 years old, is considered one of the greatest poems of the 19th century, It contains… Read More Lord Alfred Tennyson
On 27 July 1955 Chuck Berry‘s first hit record, “Maybellene” entered the Billboard R&B chart and propelled by its persistent driving rhythm, remained on the pop charts for eleven weeks. It is considered a pioneering rock and roll song., and one of the first records to be a hit on the rhythm and blues, country… Read More 🎶 Maybellene 🎶
Mignon McLaughlin (6 June 1913 –1983) was an American journalist and author who wrote a lot of aphorisms and collected them in three volumes. She also published short stories in Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women’s magazines, and later she worked for Vogue and Glamour. 🔴 “It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends,… Read More The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, (1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. He was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day and greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year and became the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe’s mysterious early death.… Read More Marlowe in Love
“To His Coy Mistress” was written by Andrew Marvell, who was born on this day – 31 March 1621 – and died in 1678. He was an English poet, satirist and politician. Here are some lines: Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. […] But at my back I… Read More “To His Coy Mistress” (a poem)
Stanza 1 I Came to buy a smile – today – But just a single smile – The smallest one upon your face Will suit me just as well – The one that no one else would miss It shone so very small – I’m pleading at the “counter” – sir – Could you afford… Read More “I Came to buy a smile – today –” (2.Analysis)
