Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through bore...dom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,... Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreig...n intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key ... and bolt the door at once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My own songs awakened from that hour, And with them the key, the word up from the waves,... The word of the sweetest song and all songs, That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet, (Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside) The sea whispered me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the last, tenderly, From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house,... From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors, Let me be wafted.
Let me glide noiselessly forth; With the key of softness unlock the locks--with a whisper, Set ope the doors O soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where;... My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmaneuvered by the U.S. military? Y...et, given time, I think the press will bounce back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »