Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and s...tings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adder-faced singularity Espouses a nailed-up childhood,... Skin-disease pardons Soft horror of living, A gabble is forgiven By chronic solitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?... Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularit...y, and rough and uneven fields stretched away with lawn-like smoothness to the horizon, and the clouds, finely distinct and picturesque, seemed a fit drapery to hang over fairyland. The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry ... like a green lane into a country maze, at the season when fruit-trees are in blossom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must mak...e tracks into the Unknown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog,... Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »