Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully unti...l she finds it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is... not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even the most incompetent English actor, coming on the stage briefly to announce the presence below of Lord and Lady Ditherege, gi...ves forth a sound so soft and dulcet as almost to be a bar of music. But sometimes that is all there is. The words are lost in the graceful sweep of the notes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue,... Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;... Man marks the earth with ruin,--his control Stops with the shore;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you feed a man, and wash his clothes, and borne his children, you and that man are married, that man is yours. If you sweep a h...ouse, and tend its fires and fill its stoves, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going... to be lazy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies dreaming sod,... Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend As of the curveship lend a myth to God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »