The windows were then closed and the steam turned on. There was a sign up saying that no one could smoke, but you couldn't help it.... You were lucky if you didn't burst into flames.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moth's kiss first! Kiss me as if you made believe... You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals up; so, here and there You brush it, till I grow aware Who wants me, and wide ope I burst.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both fee...t on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the white frock is laid aside, the bigger miss seats herself in public at a ball, expecting every moment to be chosen by some... man for a partner for that evening. If she is balked, what galling disappointment doth she feel within! Her heart is ready to burst with envy at all those who are so happy as to be taken out.... The same expectation of being chosen out as a partner for life continues from miss of fifteen to miss of _____ ... but the woman who is continually expecting great offers of marriage, which may never happen, knows not when to give up her expectations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stand amid the dust o' the mounded years-- My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,... My days have crackled and gone up in smoke, Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of the ...civilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »