My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am rough ...and lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
. . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown! These bones, how they grind in the granite of frost and are noth...ing! This skull, how it yawns for a flicker of time in the darkness, Yet laughs not and sees not!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Said an ape as he swung by his tail To his offspring both female and male,... "From your children, my dears, In a couple of years May evolve a professor at Yale."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight... Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And no matter how all this disappeared, Or got where it was going, it is no longer... Material for a poem. Its subject Matters too much, and not enough, standing there helplessly While the poem streaked by, its tail afire, a bad Comet screaming hate and disaster....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent..., without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »