Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Edith M. Thomas
Born: August 12, 1854
Died: September 13, 1925 (aged 71)
Bio: Edith Matilda Thomas was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city."
Known for:
- In sunshine land
- A Winter Swallow, With Other Verse (1896)
- Fair Shadow Land (1893)
- The White Messenger, and Other War Poems (1915)
- The dancers (1903)