Ralph FasanellapainterBorn: 9/2/1914Birthplace: New York City A longtime union organizer for the United Electrical Workers among others, he began teaching himself to paint in 1944 and gained…
Ralph BellamyactorBorn: 6/17/1904Birthplace: Chicago A prolific character actor, he was often cast as the nice guy who didn't get the girl in screwball comedies such as The Awful Truth (1937…
Two RiversThy summer voice, Musketaquit,
Repeats the music of the rain;
But sweeter rivers pulsing flit
Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain.
Thou in thy narrow banks art pent:
The…
Woodnotes IIAs sunbeams stream through liberal space
And nothing jostle or displace,
So waved the pine-tree through my thought
And fanned the dreams it never brought.'Whether is better, the…
Written at RomeAlone in Rome. Why, Rome is lonely too;—
Besides, you need not be alone; the soul
Shall have society of its own rank.
Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,
The Catos, the…
Written in NaplesWe are what we are made; each following day
Is the Creator of our human mould
Not less than was the first; the all-wise God
Gilds a few points in every several life,
And as…
A Mountain GraveWhy fear to die
And let thy body lie
Under the flowers of June,
Thy body food
For the ground-worms' brood
And thy grave smiled on by the visiting moon.
Amid great Nature'…
Alphonso of CastileI, Alphonso, live and learn,
Seeing Nature go astern.
Things deteriorate in kind;
Lemons run to leaves and rind;
Meagre crop of figs and limes;
Shorter days and harder…
Boston HymnRead in Music Hall, January 1, 1863The word of the Lord by night
To the watching Pilgrims came,
As they sat by the seaside,
And filled their hearts with flame.
God said, I am…
Concord HymnSung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, July 4, 1837By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood…
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