(Encyclopedia) Campbell, Donald Malcolm, 1921–67, British automobile and boat racer. The son of Sir Malcolm Campbell, from whom he inherited his passion for assaulting speed records and his…
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The Black VultureGeorge SterlingAloof upon the day's immeasured dome,
He holds unshared the silence of the sky.
Far down his bleak, relentless eyes descry
The eagle's empire and the…
(Encyclopedia) Keene, Donald Lawrence, 1922–2019, American scholar and translator, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1949). During World War II, he worked as a Navy interpreter and…
The First FoodGeorge SterlingMother, in some sad evening long ago,
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Whither, with cheeks that held the light
Of winter's dawn in cloudless skies,
Evadne, was thy flight?Such…
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Edward County, Va., on September 20, 1809; completed preparatory studies and
attended Hampden-Sydney College,…
Spring in CarmelGeorge SterlingO'er Carmel fields in the springtime the sea-gulls follow the plow.
White, white wings on the blue above!
White were your brow and breast, O Love!
But I…
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