Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;... Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,... The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:... Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,... Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray;... Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment,... From livid curtain's hue, a tangram emerges: a country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is w...eak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »