Quote of the day
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Edwin Markham
Born: April 23, 1852
Died: March 7, 1940 (aged 87)
Bio: Edwin Markham was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.
Known for:
- The Man With the Hoe And Other Poems (1899)
- Lincoln & other poems (1901)
- The Shoes Of Happiness And Other Poems (1915)
- An unexpected Christmas guest
- California the wonderful (1914)