Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms aft...er dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there was one egg in it there were nine, Torpedo-like, with shell of gritty leather,... All packed in sand to wait the trump together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So the soul, that drop, that ray Of the clear fountain of eternal day,... Could it within the human flower be seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green; And, recollecting its own light, Does, in its pure and circling thoughts, express The greater heaven in an heaven less.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards,... Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper. The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the w...idow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »