Grantian Florilegium

A touch of cold in the Autumn night— I walked abroad, And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge Like a red-faced farmer. I did not stop to sp...

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and...

Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain, With banners, by great gales incessant fanned, Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand, And st...

No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, This...

What we are called to do and what we are called to be ought not be hampered by financial limitations. Thus, the Chalmers Fund of the King...

When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark Makes its mark On the flowers, and the misty morning grieves Over fallen leaves; Then my olden ga...

On this day in 1904, after several years of experience publishing quality books at popular prices, Joseph Malaby Dent (1849-1926) began to f...

Harvard College graduated its first students on this day in 1642. It had been founded some six years earlier, in 1636, as New College Cambri...

"People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors." Edmund Burke