Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, Inglewood, Calif. The heavy hemp rope is used to snub the hammer so that it forms the part under proper pre Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress The helmsman steered, [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Boy sailors on the NEWPORT (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress The loud wind never reached the ship, Yet now the ship moved on! Beneath the lightning and the Moon The dead men gave a groan. They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Mourning scene Originally uploaded by National Media Museum The loud wind never reached the ship, Yet now the ship moved on! Beneath the lightning and the Moon The dead men gave a groan. They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Arches, Quintuplet, and GC Star Clusters: Rough and Crowded Neighborhood at Galactic Center Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Centennial Regatta, Sydney Originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection And soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about! And to [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Man with a spirit face appearing Originally uploaded by National Media Museum My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My garments all were dank; Sure I had drunken in my dreams, And still my body drank. I moved, and could not feel my limbs: I was so light – almost I thought that I [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
On the East Side – Jewish New Year (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress PART THE FIFTH Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul. The silly buckets on the [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Arabs in prayer in desert (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
PORTSMOUTH (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship’s huge shadow lay, The charmèd water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon – Qagychl Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution An orphan’s curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead man’s eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The moving [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Family group with two spirits Originally uploaded by National Media Museum I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Man with the spirit of his helper Originally uploaded by National Media Museum I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The Price of Victory. German dead strewing the conquered battlefield Originally uploaded by State Library of New South Wales Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony. The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison / photograph by Frank Hurley Originally uploaded by State Library of New South Wales PART THE FOURTH “I fear thee, ancient mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. I fear thee and thy glittering eye, [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Victims – Collapsed Pier – Eagle Park (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress Four times fifty living men, (And I heard nor sigh nor groan) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. The souls did from their bodies fly, – They fled to bliss or woe! And every [...]
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