Clear? Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and get me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail... out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Light Flashed from his matted head and marble feet,... He grappled at the net With the coiled, hurdling muscles of his thighs: The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes, And Nod is a little head,... And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies Is a wee one's trundle-bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; when his lamp shone over my head, and by his lig...ht I walked through darkness; when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent; when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me; when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square, the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And yet for all this help of head and brain How happily instinctive we remain,... Our best guide upward further to the light, Passionate preference such as love at sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy hatred for this misery befallen; On me already lost, me than thyself... More miserable. Both have sinned, but thou Against God only; I against God and thee, And to the place of judgment will return, There with my cries importune Heaven, that all The sentence, from thy head removed, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe, Me, me only, just object of his ire."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind a...nd spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's Margaret and Marjorie and Dorothy and Nan, A Daphne and a Mary who live in privacy;... One's had her fill of lovers, another's had but one, Another boasts, "I pick and choose and have but two or three." If head and limb have beauty and the instep's high and light They can spread out what sail they please for all I have to say....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse- nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice--with an angel bobbing a...bout unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive. Oh, England. Sick in head and sick in heart, Sick in whole and every part, And yet sicker thou art still For thinking that thou art not ill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »