Love without marriage can sometimes be very awkward for all concerned; but marriage without love simply removes that institution f...rom the territory of the humanly admissible, to my mind. Love is a state in which one lives who loves, and whoever loves has given himself away; love then, and not marriage, is belong ing. Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He slipped his hand and ran away! He hadn't gone a yard when--Bang!... With open jaws, a lion sprang, And hungrily began to eat The boy: beginning at his feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! snatch'd away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;... But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my body leaves me I'm lonesome for it.... but body goes away to I don't know where and it's lonesome to drift above the space it fills when it's here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head.... The stars in the bright sky looked down where He lay-- The little Lord Jesus asleep in the hay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »