Gemini Writers etc

May 22, 1859 - Sir Author Conan Doyle - Writer
May 25, 1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Writer
May 25, 1898 - Bennet Cerf - Writer
May 28, 1908 - Ian Flemming - Writer
June 3, 1926 - Allen Ginsberg - Poet
June 6, 1875 - Thomas Mann - Writer
June 9, 1893 - Cole Porter - Song Writer
June 11, 1910 - Jacques-Yves Costeau - Ocean Explorer
June 12, 1929 - Anne Frank - Writer
June 13, 1865 - William Butler Yeats - Writer
June 14, 1811 - Hariette B. Stowe - Writer
June 16, 1938 - Joyce Carol Oates - Writer
June 19, 1856 - Elbert Hubbard - Writer
June 19, 1947 - Salman Rushdie - Writer
June 7, 1940 - Tom Jones - Singer
June 2, 1743 - Ales. di Cagliostro - Rogue
May 31, 1923 - Prince Rainier III - Royalty
May 30, 1908 - Mel Blanc - Cartoon Voices
May 27, 1911 - Vincent Price - Actor
May 25, 1567 - Claudio Monteverdi - Composer

Ben Jonson (June 11, 1572)
English Poet, Playwright
Aleksandr Pushkin (June 6, 1799)
Russian Poet
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819)
American Poet
Thomas Hardy (June 2, 1840)
English Poet, Novelist
Dorothy Sayers (June 13, 1893)
English Mystery Author
Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943)
American Poet



William Butler Yeats was born in County Dublin on June 13, 1865

The Rose Tree

"O words are lightly spoken",
said Pearse to Connolly;
"Maybe a breath of polite words
Has withered our Rose Tree;
Ore maybe but a wind that blows
Across the bitter sea."

"It needs to be but watered",
James Connolly replied,
"To make the green come out again
And spread on every side,
And shake the blossom from the bud
To be the garden's pride."

But where can we draw water",
Said Pearse to Connolly,
"When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There's nothing but our own red blood
Can make a right Rose Tree."