Genghis Khan, in his usual jodhpurs accessorized with whip, straddled a canvas chair and gloated upon the fairyland he had built. ...Journalists, photographers, secretaries, sycophants, script girls, and set dressers milled and stirred around him, activity ... irresistibly reminiscent of the movement of maggots upon rotting meat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there ...is no imagining what new forms they may assume.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw:... It was an Abyssinian maid. And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread,... For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!... A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »