So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night... Whose ruse gave it our final meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It looked as if The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,... The cliff in being backed by continent; It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,... The cliff in being backed by continent; It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by powe...r enough to give authority to its decrees. ... Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If anyone should be asked, what is the subject wherein color or weight inheres, he would have nothing to say but, the solid and ex...tended parts. And if he were demanded, what is that solidity and extension inhere in, he would not be in a much better case than the Indian before mentioned, who, saying that the world was supported by a great elephant, was asked what the elephant rested on; to which his answer was, a great tortoise; but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad- backed tortoise, replied--something, he knew not what.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like Its skeleton shadow on the broad-backed wave!... Here is a fitting spot to dig Love's grave;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the combined names of Social Intercourse, Meeting Interesting People, and Getting Out of a Rut, I have taken, in my time, some ...terrible beatings. I have listened to poets rendering their own odes. I have had the plots of yet unwritten plays given me in tiniest detail, I have assisted in charades, I have been politely mystified by card tricks, I have even been sent out of the room and been forced, on my return, to ask the assembled company such questions as I hoped might reveal to me what Famous Character in Fiction they represented. I have spent entire evenings knee-deep in derry-down-derries, listening to quaint old English ballads done without accompaniment; I have been backed into cold corners by pianos while composers showed me how that thing they wrote three years before Gershwin did "The Man I Love" went; I knew a young man who has an inlaid ukelele. You see these gray hairs? Well, making whoopee with the intelligentsia was the way I earned them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »