Perhaps I stand now on the eve of a new life, shall watch the sun rise and disappear behind a black cloud extending out into a gre...y sky cover. I shall not be deceived by its glory. If it is to be so, there is work and the influence that work brings, but not happiness. Am I strong enough to face that?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cease my song for thee, From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,... O comrade lustrous with silver face in the night. Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night, The song, the wondrous chant of the grey-brown bird, And the tallying chant, the echo aroused in my soul, With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And yonder in the gymnasts' garden thrives The self-sown, self-begotten shape that gives... Athenian intellect its mastery, Even the grey-leaved olive-tree Miracle-bred out of the living stone....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;... Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all li...fe long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foolish fears of what might happen. I cast them all away... Among the clover-scented grass, Among the new-mown hay, Among the husking of the corn, Where drowsy poppies nod Where ill thoughts die and good are born-- Out in the fields with God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Dirty fellow!" exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, "hark you, Mrs. Frog, you'd best hold your tongue; for I must make... bold to tell you, if you don't, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. ...The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »