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 »