When Paul Bunyan's loggers roofed an Oregon bunkhouse with shakes, fog was so thick that they shingled forty feet into space befor...e discovering they had passed the last rafter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere..., from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will bring you the lily that laughs, I will twine... with soft narcissus, the myrtle, sweet crocus, white violet, the purple hyacinth, and last, the rose, loved-of-love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boy, I hate their empty shows, Persian garlands I detest,... Bring me not the late-blown rose Lingering after all the rest: Plainer myrtle pleases me Thus outstretched beneath my vine, Myrtle more becoming thee, Waiting with thy master's wine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Oregon [matter] and the annexation of Texas are now all- important to the security and future peace and prosperity of our unio...n, and I hope there are a sufficient number of pure American democrats to carry into effect the annexation of Texas and [extension of] our laws over Oregon. No temporizing policy or all is lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But he her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed Peace;... She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing, And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A happy rural seat of various view: Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;... Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable--Hesperian fables true. If true, here only--and of delicious taste. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Gracing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant: meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while... Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country wheth...er he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls' curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So pass my Days. But when Nocturnal Shades This World invelop, and th' inclement Air... Persuades Men to repel benumming Frosts, With pleasant Wines, and crackling blaze of Wood; Me Lonely sitting, nor the glimmering Light Of Make-weight Candle, nor the joyous Talk Of loving Friend delights; distress'd, forlorn, Amidst the horrors of the tedious Night, Darkling I sigh, and feed with dismal Thoughts My anxious Mind; or sometimes mournful Verse Indite, and sing of Groves and Myrtle Shades, Or desperate Lady near a purling Stream, Or Lover pendent on a Willow-Tree:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »