Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances f...or many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like figures on an ancient clock, Warrior, or saint, or clown... (All's one to the machine) that wake When each stale hour is done, And with preliminary whirr Play their allotted role, Stiffly advance, engage, retire Trembling a little still, So blandly nodding Death and I Nearer and nearer march, At the click of night and the click of day, -- Click-clack! We approach, we approach!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherw...ise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying ...of the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,... Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »