A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effectiv...
We picture the world as thick with conquering and elate humanity, but here, with the bugles of the tempest peeling, it was hard to imagine a peopled earth. One viewed the existence of man then as a ma...
They were going to look at war, the redanimal--war, the blood-swollen god.
Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.
He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.
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...
They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course.
Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son,
But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
But he instantly saw that it would be impossible for him to escape from the regiment. It inclosed him. And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box
XXVIIITruth, said a traveller,Is a rock, a mighty fortress;Often have I been to it,Even to its highest tower,From whence the world looks black.Truth, said a traveller,Is a breath, a wind,A shadow, a p...
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important,and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him,he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hat...
This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants. It represented in a degree, to the correspondent, the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual--nature in the w...
This landscape gave him assurance. A fair field holding life. It was the religion of peace. It would die if its timid eyes were compelled to see blood. He conceived Nature to be a woman with a deep av...
There were many who went in huddled procession,They knew not wither,But, at any rate, success or calamityWould attend all in equality.There was one who sought a new road,He went into direful thickets,...
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.
The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the...
You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.
XXVIThere was set before me a mighty hill,And long days I climbedThrough regions of snow.When I had before me the summit-view,It seemed my labor