The cherry orchard is now mine!... I bought the estate on which my grandfather and father were slaves, where they were not even pe...rmitted in the kitchen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked... A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How damned ridiculous it all is! The long generations toiling--skimping, lashing themselves screwing higher and higher the tension... of their minds, polishing brighter and brighter the mirror of intelligence to end in this--My God what a time--All the cant and hypocrisy, all the damnable survivals, all the vestiges of old truths now putrid and false infect the air, choke you worse than German gas--The ministers from their damn smug pulpits, the business men--the heroics about war--my country right or wrong--oh infinities of them! Oh the tragic farce of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O ruddier than the cherry, O sweeter than the berry,... O Nymph more bright Than moonshine night, Like kidlings blithe and merry. Ripe as the melting cluster, No lily has such lustre, Yet hard to tame, As raging flame, And fierce as storms that bluster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is no starre, but a quick coal Of mortall fire:... Who blows it not, nor doth controll A faint desire, Lets his own ashes choke his soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough,... And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the joys our technological civilisation has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; th...e first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine--now a satsuma or clementine--appears de-pipped months before Christmas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »