In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they ...don't fall out they let them live another year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know if I wake up cold, ... and go out into the clear spring night, still dark and precise with stars, I will feel the wind coming down hard like his hand, in fever, on my forehead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All things seem mention of themselves And the names which stem from them branch out to other referents.... Hugely, spring exists again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the storm rattles my windowpane I'll stay hunched at my desk, it will roar in vain... For I'll have plunged deep inside the thrill Of conjuring spring with the force of my will, Coaxing the sun from my heart, and building here Out of my fiery thoughts, a tepid atmosphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth and kindness in sweet embrace, Righteousness and peace are God's grace;... For truth out of the earth does spring, And righteousness from heaven ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foolish prater, What dost thou So early at my window do?... Cruel bird, thou'st ta'en away A dream out of my arms to-day; A dream that ne'er must equall'd be By all that waking eyes may see. Thou this damage to repair Nothing half so sweet and fair, Nothing half so good, canst bring, Tho' men say thou bring'st the Spring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And yet no greater, but more eminent, Love by the spring is grown;... As, in the firmament, Stars by the sun are not enlarged, but shown, Gentle love deeds, as blossoms on a bough, From love's awakened root do bud out now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly he found he had pressed the spring of the grenade. He struggled to pull it out of his pocket. It stuck in the narrow pock...et. His arm and his cold fingers that clutched the grenade seemed paralyzed. Then a warm joy went through him. He had thrown it. Anderson was standing up, swaying backwards and forwards. The explosion made the woods quake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready ...to spring out at the first real opportunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »