Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster eve...ry hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the shade went up And the ambulance came crashing through the dust... Of the new day, the moon and the sun and the stars, And the iceberg slowly sank In the volcano and the sea ran far away Yellow over the hot sand, green as the green trees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the green hells of the sea Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;... On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl, Splashed with a splended sickness, the sickness of the pearl;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:... We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.... O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;... Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat,... They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »