It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.
If I am going to be drowned-- if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and...
But I like it
Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
He was submitting, submitting because of his fathers, bending his mind in a most perfect slavery to this conflagration.
He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary for him to swallow swords that he might have a better...
A MAN FEAREDA man feared that he might find an assassin;
Within him, as he hurled himself forward, was born a love, a despairing fondness for this flag which was near him. It was a creation of beauty and invulnerability. It was a goddess, radiant, that bend...
LCVIIf I should cast off this tattered coat,And go free into the mighty sky;If I should find nothing thereBut a bast blue,
As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
A man said to the universe: Sir I exist! However, replied the universe, The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep.War is kind.Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little sou...
XXA learned man came to me once.He said, I know the way, - come.And I was overjoyed at this.Together we hastened,Soon, too soon, were weWhere my eyes were useless,And I knew not the ways of me feet.
Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a pri...
IVYes, I have a thousand tongues,And nine and nighty-nine lie.Though I strive to use the one,
A learned man came to me once.He said, I know the way, -- come.And I was overjoyed at this.Together we hastened.Soon, too soon, were weWhere my eyes were useless,And I knew not the ways of my feet.I c...
The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and eve...
Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he...