Cedar: Now would you tell the court what everybody at home thinks of Longfellow Deeds? Jane Faulkner: They think he's pixilat...ed. Amy Faulkner: Oh, yes. Pixilated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Calypso heard your call across the gathering drift... of burning cedar-wood, across the low-set bed of wandering parsley and violet, when all her hope was dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor skin nor hide nor fleece shall cover you,... nor curtain of crimson nor fine shelter of cedar-wood be over you, nor the fir-tree nor the pine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the ambitious vine Crowns with his purple mass... The cedar reaching high To kiss the sky, The cypress, pine, And useful sassafras.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which n...o cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rich are the sea-gods:Mwho gives gifts but they? They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls:... They pluck Force thence, and give it to the wise. Every wave is wealth to Daedalus, Wealth to the cunning artist who can work This matchless strength. Where shall he find, O waves! A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all t...hat he was permitted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a child who traced voyages indelibly all over the atlas, who now in a far country... remembers the first river, the first field, bricks and lumber dumped in it ready for building, that new smell, and remembers the walls of the garden, the first light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,... Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »