May 26
Today in the History of Love. Actor Alfred Lunt and actress Lynn Fontanne married in 1922 on a spur of the moment decision. Lunt telegraphed his mother: “Have made an honest woman of Lynn.”
Quotation of the Day. Thomas Malory, Morte d’Arthur, 1485. “For like as herbs and trees bringeth forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.”
Word of the Day. Redamancy. The act of loving someone in return.
Poem of the Day. “Break of Day,” by John Donne.
‘Tis true, ‘tis day, what though it be?
O wilt thou therefore rise from me?
Why should we rise because ‘tis light?
Did we lie down because ‘twas night?
Love, which in spite of darkness brought us hither,
Should in despite of light keep us together.