Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from t...hat tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is--One Who Killed Our Lord.... And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; ... />And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted--nevermore!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back... His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying... and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I do...n't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust!... The poet's fate is here in emblem shown: He asked for bread, and he received a stone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »