I've almost gained my heav'nly home; My spirit loudly sings; The holy ones behold they come, I hear the noise of wings.... O come, angel band, Come and around me stand. O bear me away on your snowy wings, To my immortal home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,... Steel-true and blade-straight The great artificer Made my mate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cold eyes ... steel grey, rather small, not unpleasant in good-humour, diabolic in a passion, but worst when a little suspicious; ...then they watch you as though you were a young rattle-snake, to be killed when convenient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paper is soft and ink is fluid; it might be better if some pages of this chronicle could be written on chips of granite at the poi...nt of steel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to ...the feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young lady called Gloria Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier... And then by six men And Sir Gerald again And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power corrupts ... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The will to power ... far from being a... characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »