To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, and... have not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You took my heart in your hand With a friendly smile,... With a critical eye you scanned, Then set it down, And said: It is still unripe, Better wait awhile;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was your severed image that grew sweeter, That floated, wing-stiff, focused in the sun... Along uncertainty and gales of shame Blown out before I slept. Now you are one I dare not think alive: only a name That chimes occasionally, as a belief Long since embedded in the static past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a codling when 'tis almost an a...pple. 'Tis with him in standing water between boy and man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »