Random Poetry List LXIX Come forth, and let us through our hearts receive The joy of verdure!—see, the honeyed lime Showers cool green light o'er banks where wild-flowers weave Thick....

At Zombietime: .... On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions....

Lecture 8 of Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England. Delivered on Monday, August 25, 1851. + + + + + You may have asked yourselves, Brothers of....

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link today to Sen. John McCain: A Speech on Containment of Iraq. The Blog from the Core is also getting a large number of....

One of my poems turns Sweet Sixteen today. On a Bumblebee (August 24, 1990) No. August is the cruellest month: see, a bumblebee sits on the dwarf snapdragon, many-flowered— purple....

A brief but monumental essay. Ann Althouse writes at NYT, today. + + + + + To end her opinion in American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency —....

By the blogger @ Sigmund, Carl & Alfred: Remember the movie Arthur, starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli? In the role of the title character, Moore plays a childish, self....

Joe Rosenthal, famous for his Feb. 23, 1945, photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, died Sunday, Aug. 20. Raising the (Second) Flag on Mt. Suribachi / Joe Rosenthal Joe....

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