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Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Heroism" ("Essays: First Series")

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, “My Anna! when for thee my head was bowed” #poetry #sonnet

James Stephens, from “The Goat Paths”

Robert Frost, "Desert Places" #poetry

Today (30 May) is the feast of St. Joan of Arc. On this day in 1431 she was burnt at the stake in Rouen. (The text is from her trial; the depiction of her early visions is by Jules Bastien-Lepage)

“The exceptional is ever persecuted” – W. B. Yeats

Christina Rossetti, "Up-Hill" #poetry

Walt Whitman (#BOTD 31 May 1819), "Aboard at a Ship's Helm"

Walter de la Mare, "Dreams” #poetry

So, my likes are disappearing here. In case anyone has noticed and is wondering what might be going on.

Persius, from the Prologue to "The Satires"

"Continuities", Walt Whitman (#BOTD 31 May 1819)

Said the Table, with a sigh, 'It can do no harm to try'

Edgar Allan Poe, from "The Raven" #poetry