My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black ...as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl, his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is told that some divorcees, elated by their freedom, pause on leaving the courthouse to kiss a front pillar, or even walk to t...he Truckee to hurl their wedding rings into the river; but boys who recover the rings declare they are of the dime-store variety, and accuse the throwers of fraudulent practices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a "life-work" of teaching, of social work--we know that we would lay it down with ...hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high... Over the chained bay waters Liberty-- Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyesLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain;... His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...they seem embarrassed by their own stupid beauty./Erect, with those decorous irridescent [sic] rings/around their throats and e...yes,/theirs is the plump strut of royalty/parading dutifully among the poor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its ...dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings... And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock- market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of de...ad money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness.... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »