For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, it... is one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then down, deep down, in the mighty ship, unseen by the midday suns,... You'll find the chaps who are giving the raps--the men behind the guns!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No stout Lesson showed how to chat with death. We brought... No brass fortissimo, among our talents, To holler down the lions in this air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have no word for soldiers to enjoy The feel of, as an apple, and to chew... With masculine satisfaction. Not "good-by!" "Come back!"or "careful!" Look, and let him go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind,/Disdain for all time to be overglad./Among spring flowers, under summer trees./By chilling ...autumn waters, in the frosts/Of supercilious winter--all my days/I'll have as mentors those reproving ghosts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had supposed their formula was fixed. They had obeyed instructions to devise... A type of cold, a type of hooded gaze. But when the Negroes came they were perplexed. These Negroes looked like men....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung... With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »