We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will... often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Who owns them hungry hills That the water-hen and snipe must have forsaken?... A poet? Then by heavens he must be poor." I hear and is my heart not badly shaken?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if ma...n was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is crazy. Now, maybe you knew this all along. But before I had children, I actually held on to the illusion that there was so...me sense of order to the universe.... I am now convinced that we are all living in a Chagall painting--a world where brides and grooms and cows and chickens and angels and sneakers are all mixed up together, sometimes floating in the air, sometimes upside down and everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But yet that holden this tale a folly, As of a fox, or of a cock and hen,... Taketh the morality, good men. For Saint Paul saith that all that written is, To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis; Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diddy-Wah-Diddy ... is a place of no work and no worry for man or beast. The road to it is so crooked that a mule pulling a load o...f fodder can eat off the back of the wagon as he plods along. All curbstones are chairs, and all food is already cooked. Baked chickens and sweet potato pies, with convenient knives and forks, drift along crying, 'Eat me! Eat me!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the Barn-Door crowing, The Cock by Hens attended,... His Eyes around him throwing, Stands for a while suspended: Then One he singles from the Crew, And cheers the happy Hen; With how do you do, and how do you do, And how do you do again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »