I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in t...he younger ore and better veins of the mine--and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so--and now the dross is coming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No more shall the war cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red:... They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment Day:-- Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The archbishop is away. The church is gray. He has left his robes folded in camphor... And, dressed in black, he walks Among fireflies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,... Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket, Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that ...increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Playing alone, I found the wall. One side was gray, the other an indelible gray.... The two sides were separated by a third, Or spirit wall, a coarser gray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »