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Strafford Notes, 4 August, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013 10:12:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Have a great Sunday1

August 4
Events:
http://azeyeceaitt.weebly.com/ my event calendar with updates as they magically appear in/from the haystack
Born:
0804
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 07/08/1822) Romantic English poet
Sonnet
Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,
Ye restless thoughts and busy purposes
Of the idle brain, which the world's livery wear?
O thou quick heart, which pantest to possess
All that pale Expectation feigneth fair! _5
Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest guess
Whence thou didst come, and whither thou must go,
And all that never yet was known would know--
Oh, whither hasten ye, that thus ye press,
With such swift feet life's green and pleasant path, _10
Seeking, alike from happiness and woe,
A refuge in the cavern of gray death?
O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you
Hope to inherit in the grave below?
http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/complete-works-of-shelley/
John Venn (1834- 4-Apr-1923) Brit mathematician Venn diagrams
http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/venn/
Walter Horatio Pater ( 1839-July 30, 1894) English writer -essayist, critic of art and literature, fiction
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/pater/index.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Pater%2C%20Walter%2C%201839-1894
William Henry Hudson (1841-Aug 18,1922), English naturalist and novelist (born Argentina of American parents) Green Mansions (1904)
http://www.online-literature.com/wh-hudson/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052864/
Knut Hamsun Pedersen, (1859 – 02/19/1952) Norwegian author and 1920 Nobel literature prize Growth of the Soil (1917)
http://www.hamsun.dk/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/khamsun.htm
Harry Lauder (1870- Feb 26, 1950) Scot singer- Roamin' in the Gloamin'
http://www.besmark.com/lauder.html
Béla Balázs (1884-May 17, 1949) ,Hungarian poet, screenwriter, playwright, film critic, director, the author of the libretto for Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle (1912) and the story for the The Wooden Prince (1917).
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/balazs.htm
Louis Armstrong (1901 – 07/06/1971) US bandleader, singer, trumpet player, jazz pioneer- 1964 'Hello Dolly!', 1968 'What A Wonderful World’ plus ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’, ‘Ain't Misbehavin’, and ‘We Have All the Time in the World.’
http://www.biography.com/people/louis-armstrong-9188912
Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908 – 07/27/1980) English illustrator, gardener
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/osbertlancaster/biography
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-16-Jul-1947) Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian -Worked to save Hungarian Jews
http://theglobalherald.com/the-importance-of-raoul-wallenberg-a-swedish-human-rights-hero/22486/
Robert Hayden Asa Bundy Sheffey (1913 – 25 Feb 1980) American poet, essayist, educator; appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-hayden
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_hayden/poems
Helen Thomas (1920- July 20,2013 ) White House reporter since 1961
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=114074403
http://www.leftjustified.com/helen-thomas
Assia Djebar (1936-) aka Fatima-Zohra Imalayen Algerian/American novelist, translator, poet, playwright, short-story writer, and filmmaker
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/djebar.htm
Barack Obama (1961 –) US President (44)
http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Obama/e/B001H6OA8E/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1375606617&sr=8-3
Dennis Lehane (1965- ) US Novelist Mystic River
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/dennis-lehane/
Jeff Gordon (1971- ) NASCAR
http://www.jeffgordon.com/
Passed:
0804
William Edmondstoune Aytoun (June 21, 1813 -1865 Scottish lawyer and poet
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10945/10945-h/10945-h.htm
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/aytoun-william-edmonstoune
Hans Christian Andersen (04/02/1805 –1875) Danish writer
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/hcanders.htm
http://archive.org/stream/storyofmylif00ande#page/n17/mode/2up
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&author=Andersen%2C%20H.%20C.%20(Hans%20Christian)%2C%201805-1875
W. B. William Babington Maxwell (1866- 1938) Brit Novelist The Ragged Messenger
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14605/14605-h/14605-h.htm
Rudolf George Binding, (August 13, 1867 -1938) German poet/writer
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWbinding.htm
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (Jan 22, 1921 –1944)–. Poet, Polish Resistance Fighter of the Home Army (Armja Kraiowa)
Ars Poetica

The poem is in me, evil, alien, evil
and hateful; with scorching fire it burns my nights,
it passes through me crowdlike, hoarse with shouting
like a torchlit procession in the streets.

The poem is evil, hateful, trying to burst
its form (how hard to shackle one who’s free),
and though I drag it from my fiery innards,
its master I will never wholly be.

It twists, shouting and troubled, till it cries out;
becomes then alien, a friend who never was,
stands on the frozen, flaming threshold, crated,
and joins the others in the evening frosts.

—Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
http://angiesdiary.com/poetry-and-lyrics/poem-stories/death-of-a-poet-august-4-1944/
Ethel Anderson (March 16,, 1883- 1958 )Australian poet
http://www.poemhunter.com/ethel-anderson/biography/
Eddie Condon (11/16/1904 – 1973) US guitarist
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-condon-mn0000793720
Nikiforos Vrettakos, (0101912-1991 Greek poet (Hodyne)
http://triceratops.brynmawr.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10066/5672/Zaller_21_2(A).pdf?sequence=1
Lee Hazlewood, (Jul 9,1929-2007) American country singer, songwriter and producer -wrote and produced many of Nancy Sinatra's most famous hits, including These Boots Were Made For Walkin', Jackson and Did You Ever’ He also produced Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons and Something Stupid - the duet Nancy recorded with her father Frank in 1967.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lee-hazlewood-mn0000237517
Sites:
http://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/
http://www.waynetaylorracing.com/
http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue6/CarlaHarryman6.html
http://thisgreenblog.com/2012/04/walking-by-henry-david-thoreau.html
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/
http://redhen.org/
http://jimrubens.com/

History:
0804
1749- Samuel Richardson negatively reviewed Henry Fielding’s ‘The History of Tom Jones’
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/pdf/lawyers-as-writers/LAWS-Nijman-Guilty.pdf
1753- George Washington became a Master Mason, the highest rank in the Fraternity of Freemasonry
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (forerunner of the United States Coast Guard)
http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/docs/Timeline%20of%20Coast%20Guard%20Organizational%20History.pdf
1892 – In Fall River, Mass, the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lizzieborden/bordenhome.html
1944 –a tip from a Dutch informer leads to the arrest Anne Frank, her family, and four others
http://annefrank.com/
1967- Pink Floyd released their debut album The Piper At the Gates of Dawn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKe-epCinMA
1969-In Paris, secret peace talks begin between US rep Henry Kissinger & North Vietnamese rep Xuan Thuy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/honor/peopleevents/e_paris.html
1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy
http://energy.gov/
2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/spacecraft/index.html
Bonus Poem:
My First Gray Hair

One day amid brown tresses there gleamed a silvery thread,
Life pages, past and present I wonderingly then read.
I saw a blithsome maiden, a child serenely fair,
A woman heavey laden now lifts her first gray hair.
CHORUS.
O silvery strand, thou soft kiss of time,
The beauties of youth are now past, are now past.
For evening of life are pleasures unknown,
’Tis love, only love, that will last, that will last.

Upon the shadowy threshold the small gray strand did lay,
And told the old, old story of ever changing day;
Within the mystic portals of life’s near ending stream
I stood and pondered vaguely, if death were but a dream.

I viewed the snow-white message and thought of bygone years,
The hopes, the waging conflicts, joys mingled oft’ with tears.
Tell me, thou thing of pearl hue, what will the future greet?
Will paths be strewn with roses, or thistles tear my feet?

A whisper floated near me in accents sweet and low,
“My child, what’er thy portion, if tares for thee will grow,
Thy soul keep pure and stainless, a crown thy brow shall wear,
’Twill shine with whitest tresses, that once was nut-brown hair.”
-Mary Alice Walton
Online text © 1998-2013 Poetry X. All rights reserved. From Poems: A Message of Hope | 1910 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/680/

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