Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face, And even old men's eyes grew dim, this hand alone,... Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place Babbling of fallen majesty, records what's gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the mighty fallen!... Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than e...agles, they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You seem to think that I am adapted to nothing but the sugar-plums of intellect and had better not try to digest anything stronger....... a writer of popular sketches in magazines; a lecturer before Lyceums and College societies; a dabbler in metaphysics, poetry, and art, than which I would rather die, for if it has come to that, alas! verily, as you say, mediocrity has fallen on the name of Adams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right but his duty to God to enter int...o plural marriages, and that the man who has the greatest number of wives stands highest in God's favor, than I do for the man who has been taught from his cradle that the unpardonable sin is the desecration of womanhood; whose religious training and the moral code of civilization in which he is reared make it a crime to violate the Seventh Commandment and the established law of monogamy. Yet, judging from the testimony we see all about us--our ... lying-in and foundling hospitals and our fallen womanhood--the married or single man who lives a pure life is rare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »