The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and b...aked to death in dusty corners of the window.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That moss-covered bucket I hailed as a treasure, For often at noon, when returned from the field,... I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And now, far removed from the loved habitation, The tear of regret will intrusively swell,... As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sighs for the bucket that hung in the well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A single monk carries his own bucket of water; two monks carry their bucket of water together; but when there are three monks, the...re is no water at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order,... Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall w...as opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »