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Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884 in St. Louis, MO.

Walter Crane was born on the 15th of August 1845. 

H.P. Lovecraft was known to live semi-nocturnally. He preferred to stay up into the night to read, write, and study astronomy. 

This poem was published just one year after his first publication The Alchemist. 

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. 

Robert Frosts work is painted by tragedy just like his life. His father died in 1885, his mother in 1900, and his sister, who was committed to a mental institution, dies in 1920.

Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri on February 8, 1850. Most of her writing accurately portrayed the lives of women. Desiree's Baby was first published in 1893. Kate Chopin died in 1904. 

Perhaps H.P. Lovecraft was not a fan of those who objected to WWI. 

-- By Christina Rossetti -- 

Rossetti's poem helps offer a a pensive, retrospective, meditation on the year passed, while simultaneously capturing the hope we all have for an even more magnificent year ahead.  

-- By James Kelly -- 

This poem was printed in The Printers' Carnival and Other Poems collection by James Kelly; a book that was first published in 1875. The book was published by Love & Duncan on Bank Street in London. Information on the book and author are both extremely difficult to find. 

-- By Thomas Hardy --

This masterwork was written on December 31, 1900 -- the last day of the 19th century. Although it is very early still in this century, reflect on how far we have come in the last 122 years.