At the Denver House, a hastily erected log structure roofed and partitioned with canvas, described by Horace Greeley in 1859 as "T...he Astor House of the Gold Fields," orchestra leader Jones and his spirited men were interrupted by sporadic but not unforeseen bursts of gunfire that sent them diving for shelter behind a low iron-plated enclosure. Before the smoke had fairly cleared away, they were up again desperately playing and singing: Ha, boys, ho! Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness, Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness? Ha, boys, ho!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
sailing In sunlight smiling under their goggles swapping batons back and... forth And He who jumped without a chute and was handed one by a diving Buddy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters... Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come now, let us go and be dumb. Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum. Let us live in cor...ners, and do chores, and suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love the Lord. Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being, and so diving, bring up out of secular darkness, the sublimities of the moral constitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
who should moor at his edge And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,... But the hill of dark underfoot diving, Closing overhead, the cold deep, and drowning. He is called Leviathan, and named for rolling,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake he...r claim in the outside world in what looks like total autonomy--in some cases, even "divorce" her mother in a fiery exit from the family--but there is an invisible emotional cord that snaps her back. For always there is the memory of mother, whose judgments are so completely absorbed into the daughter's identity that she may wonder where Mom leaves off and she begins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop awa...y from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We went to see the ocean, and that is probably the best place of all our coast to go to. If you go by water, you may experience wh...at it is to leave and to approach these shores; you may see the stormy petrel by the way, thalassodroma, running over the sea, and if the weather is but a little thick, may lose sight of the land in mid-passage. I do not know where there is another beach in the Atlantic States, attached to the mainland, so long, and at the same time so straight, and completely uninterrupted by creeks or coves or fresh-water rivers and marshes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The next summer I saw a sloop from Chatham dragging for anchors and chains just off this shore.... It is a singular employment, at... which men are regularly hired and paid for their industry, to hunt to-day in pleasant weather for anchors which have been lost,--the sunken faith and hope of mariners, to which they trusted in vain; now, perchance,... if the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder's craft, or stock new navies to the end of time. The bottom of the sea is strewn with anchors, some deeper and some shallower, and alternately covered and uncovered by the sand, perchance with a small length of iron cable still attached,--to which where is the other end? So many unconcluded tales to be continued another time. So, if we had diving-bells adapted to the spiritual deeps, we should see anchors with their cables attached, as thick as eels in vinegar, all wriggling vainly toward their holding-ground. But that is not treasure for us which another man has lost; rather it is for us to seek what no other man has found or can find,--not be Chatham men, dragging for anchors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »