They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who... thought of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have placed slippers very carefully under my bed, only to have them crawl out during the night to a position where I will step i...nto them the wrong way round when leaping out of bed to answer the telephone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss... Of blankets; grainy wood; live hair that is Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen Unpassioned beauty of a great machine;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the palings of her bed Be quince and box-wood overlaid... with the scented bark of yew. That all the wood in blossoming, May calm her heart and cool her blood For losing of her maidenhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sitting along the bed's edge, where You curled the papers from your hair,... Or clasped the yellow soles of feet In the palms of both soiled hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Don't touch me, please I say, don't touch me, please. I'll not be put to bed by you, my man."... "Just as you say. Have it your own way, then. 'My man is it?' You talk like a professor...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town, Up stairs and doon stairs in his nicht-gown,... Tirling at the window, crying at the lock, \'Are the weans in their bed, for it's now ten o'clock?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wind's on the wold And the night is a-cold,... And Thames runs chill 'Twixt mead and hill. But kind and dear Is the old house here And my heart is warm Midst winter's harm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »