Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)