We approached the Indian Island through the narrow strait called "Cook." He said, "I 'xpect we take in some water there, river so ...high,--never see it so high at this season. Very rough water there, but short; swamp steamboat once. Don't paddle till I tell you, then you paddle right along." It was a very short rapid. When we were in the midst of it he shouted "paddle," and we shot through without taking in a drop.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men, As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,... Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are clept All by the name of dogs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;... The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water..., made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the rusty Pump pumps over your sweating face the clear... Water, cold, so cold! you cup your hands And gulp from them the dailiness of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grown onto every inch of plate, except Where the hinges let it move, were living things,... Barnacles, mussels, water weeds--and one Blue bit of polished glass, glued there by time: The origins of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The senseless drowned Have faces nobody would care to see,... But water loves those gradual erasures Of flesh and shoreline, greenery and glass,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »