It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in th...e memory of women. At 30, women see their adolescence quite clearly. At 30 a woman's adolescence remains a facet fitting into her current self.... At 40, however, memories of adolescence are blurred. Women of this age look much more to their earlier childhood for memories of themselves and of their mothers. This links up to her typical parenting phase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A worm on the ear-of-wheat, I am yet unrepentant,... for I know how the Lord God is about to manifest, when I, the industrious worm, spin my own shroud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart,...
And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go bring him home to his people. Lay him in state on a sepal.... Wrap him for shroud in a petal. Embalm him with ichor of nettle. This is the word of your Queen."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave. Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.... The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave. They buried us without shroud or coffin And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives!... Stitch--stitch--stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »