Home! Yes! she would see Trafalgar Square, again; and Nelson on his plinth; and Chelsea Bridge as it dissolved into the Thames at ...twilight ... and St. Paul's, the single Amazon breast of her beloved native city.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea... she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon...? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were many vessels, like gulls, skimming over the surface of the sea, now half concealed in its troughs, their dolphin- strik...ers plowing the water, now tossed on the top of the billows.... Some of these vessels lagged behind, while others steadily went ahead. We narrowly watched their rig and the cut of their jibs, and how they walked the water, for there was all the difference between them that there is between living creatures. But we wondered that they should be remembering Boston and New York and Liverpool, steering for them, out there; as if the sailor might forget his peddling business on such a grand highway. They had perchance brought oranges from the Western Isles; and were they carrying back the peel? We might as well transport our old traps across the ocean of eternity. Is that but another "trading flood," with its blessed isles? Is Heaven such a harbor as the Liverpool docks?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow's arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging t...he grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal. It was a lake of rainbow light, in which, for a short while, I lived like a dolphin. If it had lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and my life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The West is preparing to add its fables to those of the East. The valleys of the Ganges, the Nile, and the Rhine having yielded th...eir crop, it remains to be seen what the valleys of the Amazon, the Plate, the Orinoco, the St. Lawrence, and the Mississippi will produce. Perchance, when, in the course of ages, American liberty has become a fiction of the past,--as it is to some extent a fiction of the present,--the poets of the world will be inspired by American mythology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land,... Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »