Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather you...r children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to cou...ntry air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting's sake--much as we relive, brood, and smoulder... over our pasts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to... ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And therto brood, as though it were a spade.... Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys. His nosethirles blake were and wyde.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This much, O heaven--if I should brood or rave, Pity me not; but let the world be fed,... Yea, in my madness if I strike me dead,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Draw up the dew. Swell with pacific violence. Take shape in silence. Grow as the clouds grew.... Beautiful brood the cornlands, and you are heavy; Leafy the boughs--they also hide big fruit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »