2024-08-07 National Lighthouse Day

【Moon Jelly】

Nancy Anne Miller

            Lacey as doilies for tea cups,

            A soft sense of politeness present

            When the sea harmonized itself

2024-08-06 International Scuba Day

【Sea Squid】

Nancy Anne Miller 

            Capped like a nursery bonnet

            With tentacles streaming ties.

            A missing tooth of the sea,

        &nbs

2024-06-24 International Fairy Day

【Memories Of Holland (Herinnering aan Holland)】

Hendrik Marsman (1899–1940)

            Thinking about Holland,

            I see broad rivers

            Moving slowly through

            Endless lowlands.

2024-06-23 Public Service Day

【Song: III】

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗

            They killed three little mads

            To see what was in their hearts.

            The first was full of happiness,

 &

2024-06-23 National Typewriter Day

【Song: II】

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗

            And if he should come again, 

                 What am I to say?

            – Tell him some one looked for him,

          &n

2024-06-23 National Porridge Day

【Song: I】

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)

〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗

             She has chained her within a grot,

             Upon the gate a sign put she;

             The maiden has the light forgot,

             The key has fall'n into the sea.

          &nbs

2024-06-22 National Onion Ring Day

【Areopagitica】

John Milton (1608-1674)

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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【《论出版自由》】

(英国)约翰·弥尔顿“神慈·磨坊地”

(1608生—1674卒)

【红霞译】

                迫切渴望

&nbs

2024-06-22 World Rainforest Day

【Sesame and Lilies】

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

        For all books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Mark this distinction - it is not one of quality only. It is not merely the bad book that does not last, and the good one that does. It is a distinction of species. There are good books for the hour, and good ones for all time; bad books for the hour, and bad ones for all tim

2024-06-21 National Smoothie Day

【My arm clasped your fragile waist (Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle)】

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

             My arm clasped your fragile waist

             that's supple as a reed;

             Your breast beat like the wing

             Of a young bird！

          &n

2024-06-21 Wagyu Day

【Chanson】

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

             Si vous n'avez rien à me dire,

             Pourquoi venir auprès de moi ?

             Pourquoi me faire ce sourire

             Qui tournerait la tête au roi ?

             Si vous n'avez rien à me dire,

            &n

2024-06-21 World Music Day

【The Genesis Of The Butterfly (Vere novo)】

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

    The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers

    The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers

    That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings

    In jasmine bloom, and periwinkle, of white wings,

    That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,

    With muffled music, murmured far and wi

2024-06-20 National Vanilla Milkshake Day

【January 1^st (1er janvier)】

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

         Child, you will be told later that the grandfather

         adored you; that he did his best on earth,

         That he had very little joy and much envy,

         That when you were little he was old,

         That he had no gruff words or morose airs,