Ah done been in sorrow's kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, an...d Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, m...an bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,... Makes me with thy strength to communicate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportion...s than a vine filled with grapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »