As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,... tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight,... Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, To put on when you're weary or a stool To stumble over and vex you ... "curse that stool!" Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean And sleep, and dream of something we are not, But would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this ... that, after all, we are paid The worth of our work, perhaps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over t...he water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between the pillars; he his guide requested (For so from such as nearer stood we heard)... As over-tir'd to let him lean a while With both his arms on those two massie Pillars That to the arched roofgave main support. He unsuspitious led him; which when Samson Felt in his arms, with head a while enclin'd, And eyes fast fixt he stood, as one who pray'd, Or some great matter in his mind revolv'd.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"You'll have me over the cliff," he exclaimed hardly ever yet putting out his strength against her. "And so I will, by the h...elp of God. Now think of her! Now think of her!" And as she spoke she pressed him backwards towards his fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone, A mist that is like blown snow is sweeping over all,... Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon That seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable, A glittering sword out of the east.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »