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• From Heywood's poem Love's Good-Morrow. • Dramatist Thomas Heywood was born in Lincolnshire, England, and was a contemporary of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Charles Lamb is said to have described him as a "prose Shakespeare. Heywood died in London in 1641. He wrote A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), considered one of the first examples of middle-class tragedy. [Source: Poetry Foundation]

Pack clouds away, and welcome day,
With night we banish sorrow;
Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft,
To give my love good morrow...

- Thomas Heywood, c. 1607

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Thank you, Laura.☀️🌱

Thank you, Laura – that's very kind of you🙏🫶 Yes...looking forward to WWC greenery and blooms—and hoping many good things 'roll your way' (I like that) as well!☘️🌸🌱🌸💚

Thank you, Laura.✨

WALT WHITMAN: POETRY & PROSE Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1982. Published in the United States by Library of America. Twenty-second printing, 1982.

• Portrait: "Walt Whitman by G. Frank Pearsall, ca. 1869 - 1872." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. • Quote: Walt Whitman wrote "Who Gets the Plunder?" as part of his prose edition Collect, which was published in 1882 as a companion piece to Specimen Days. [Whitman Archive]

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾

The protectionists are fond of flashing to the public eye the glittering delusion of great money-results...But the fact itself is nothing of the kind. The profits of 'protection' go altogether to a few score select persons,...forming a vulgar aristocracy.

-Who Gets the Plunder?

Knowing nothing of Sismondi, I looked him up.

Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773-1842) was a Swiss historian & economist. He had a humanitarian approach to economic thought – advocating against the unbridled amassing of wealth at the expense of the working poor.

WALT WHITMAN: POETRY & PROSE Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1982. Published in the United States by Library of America. Twenty-second printing, 1982.

• Portrait: "Walt Whitman by G. Frank Pearsall, ca. 1869 - 1872." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. • Walt Whitman wrote "Who Gets the Plunder?" as part of his prose collection Collect, which was published in 1882 as a companion piece to Specimen Days. [Whitman Archive]

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾

"As Sismondi pointed out, the true prosperity of a nation is not in the great wealth of a special class, but is only to be really attain'd in having the bulk of the people provided with homes or land in fee simple."

- Walt Whitman, Who Gets the Plunder?, c. 1882

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Thank you, Suse❄️🌱

"Her portrayal of America’s gradual self-destruction is bleak, but is tempered by glimmers of humanity..."

Looks wonderful, Jennifer. I'm hooked.🩶

John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the poem "The Wind Of March" in 1867; it was published in his collection The Tent on the Beach, and Other Poems.

Between the passing and the coming
season,
This stormy interlude
Gives to our winter-wearied hearts a
reason
For trustful gratitude.

- John Greenleaf Whittier, c. 1867

From my wife's walk:

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To elicit reflection, then a smile: simply wonderful 🥰

This is wonderful, Laura.🫶🤲

"...wind swirling among rocks"

🤎🍂✨ This brave little plant...

Thank you, Laura! Yes, we are well and hope you are too.🫶
I am sooo ready for the warmer weather.☀️🌴☺️

Beautiful contrasts✨

Beautifully done, Nicki.🧡

From Herman Melville's "The Æolian Harp At the Surf Inn", c. 1888; one of his Sea-Pieces poems, which were included in his collection: John Marr and Other Sailors.
• Artwork: Shipwreck by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1854. Public domain.

• Quote is from Herman Melville's poem "The Æolian Harp At the Surf Inn", c. 1888; one of his Sea-Pieces poems, which were included in his collection: John Marr and Other Sailors. • Artwork: Shipwreck, by Ivan Aivazovsky (1854). Public domain.

#MelvilleMonday

It has drifted, waterlogged,
Till by trailing weeds beclogged:
Drifted, drifted, day by day,
Pilotless on pathless way...

Deadlier than the sunken reef
Since still the snare it shifteth,
Torpid in dumb ambuscade
Waylayingly it drifteth.

- Melville, The Æolian Harp

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Well done✨

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A beautiful poem. Congratulations✨

Raconteur extraordinaire👏

Third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are some of the best little readers in the nation. What’s their secret? An elementary school in Ohio has some of the best young readers in the nation. How they did it—and how a new law put it all at risk.

Third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are some of the best little readers in the nation. What’s their secret?

Wallace Stevens' Adiaga, part of Opus Posthumous, was first published in 1957 by Alfred A. Knopf, two years after the poet's death.

#SundaySentence

As the reason destroys, the poet must create.
- Wallace Stevens

Isn't that beautiful 🌔🕊️

I started The Unvanquished a couple of days ago.🤝