My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering le...aves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But who, alas! can love, and then be wise? Not that remorse did not oppose temptation;... A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering 'I will ne'er consent'Mconsented.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should mak...e himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spirit of her I love, Whispering to me,... Stories of sweet visions, as I rove, Here stop, and crop with me Sweet flowers that in the still hour grew,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At about that time I was once sitting at my place and whispering--it was naughty, I know--with my neighbor. Then you, Herr Profess...or Rudner, got up from your desk, came calmly down the aisle to me: "Did you speak?" and slapped me smack in the face. And I--the fury is inside me to this day--I didn't hit back. Such were the methods of objectivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
at mothy curfew-tide, And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and leads,... They've a way of whispering to me--fellow-wight who yet abide--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »