Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies. Thy two brea...sts are like two young roes that are twins. Thy neck is like a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What heaven-entreated heart is this Stands trembling at the gate of bliss;... Holds fast the door, yet dares not venture Fairly to open it and enter? Whose definition is a doubt 'Twixt life and death, 'twixt in and out?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You did not sense the wings beyond the gate; you could not see,... you could not touch and feel, actually the sea-sand and the sea-shell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate:... I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house;... Write loyal cantons of contemned love, And sing them loud even in the dead of night; Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out "Olivia!" O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth But you should pity me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The representative women of the nation have done their uttermost for the last thirty years to secure freedom for the negro, and so... long as he was lowest in the scale of being we were allowed to press his claims; but now, as the celestial gate to civil rights is slowly moving on its hinges, it becomes a serious question whether we had better stand aside and see "Sambo" walk into the kingdom first. As self-preservation is the first law of nature, would it not be wiser to keep our lamps trimmed and burning, and when the constitutional door is open, avail ourselves of the strong arm and blue uniform of the black soldier to walk in by his side, and thus make the gap so wide that no privileged class could ever again close it against the humblest citizen of the republic?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Separating ourselves from the crowd, we walked up a narrow street, thence ascended by some wooden steps, called the Break-neck Sta...irs, into another steep, narrow, and zigzag street, blasted through the rock, which last led through a low, massive stone portal, called Prescott Gate, the principal thoroughfare into the Upper Town. This passage was defended by cannon, with a guard-house over it, a sentinel at his post, and other soldiers at hand ready to relieve him. I rubbed my eyes to be sure that I was in the Nineteenth Century, and was not entering one of those portals which sometimes adorn the frontispieces of new editions of old black-letter volumes. I thought it would be a good place to read Froissart's Chronicles. It was such a reminiscence of the Middle Ages as Scott's novels. Men apparently dwelt there for security! Peace be unto them! As if the inhabitants of New York were to go over to Castle William to live! What a place it must be to bring up children!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We did not heed the sentries at the gate, nor did they us, and what under the sun they were placed there for, unless to hinder a f...ree circulation of the air, was not apparent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but ins...eparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »