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... village. ‘What’s that?’ said Durbeyfield. ‘Not on account o’ I?’ ‘’Tis the women’s club walking, Sir John. Why, your da’ter is one o’ the members.’ P... ...rocession and dancing on each anniversary than in the members being solely women. In men’s clubs such celebrations were, though expiring, less uncommo... ...x, or a sarcastic attitude on the part of male relatives, had denuded such women’s clubs as remained (if any other did) of this their glory and con s... ... operation of personal care. There were a few middle aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by ... ... high road to pass through a wicket gate into the meadows, when one of the women said — ‘The Lord a Lord! Why, Tess Durbeyfield, if there isn’t thy fat... ...try — actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper poets only write. ...And she is an unimpeachable Christian, I am sure; perh...

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...their troth, and marry; and that then the survivor scorns, as the Thracian women are said to do, to outlive his or her mate, and this is taken for a t... ...metimes all the beg gars, whose number was neither more nor less than the poets’ nine muses, talked all together about this ripping and unripping; an... ... sicians allow him to be eaten by wounded men, or by men in fevers, or by women in child bed. He spawns but once a year; and is, by physicians, held ... ...m, and in hot weather makes excellent sport for young anglers, or boys, or women that love that recreation. And in the spring they make of them excell... ...er; nor what he is good for in summer, but only to make sport for boys and women anglers, and to feed other fish that be fish of prey, as Trouts in pa...

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...thing that Don Quixote was a bachelor and Marcus Aurelius married ill. For women, there is less of this danger. Marriage is of so much use to a woman,... ...enefit. It is true, however, that some of the merriest and most genuine of women are old maids; and that those old maids, and 7 Virginibus Puerisque ... ...ten most of the true motherly touch. And this would seem to show, even for women, some narrowing influence in comfortable mar- ried life. But the rule... ...fe. But the rule is none the less certain: if you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife. I am often filled with wonder ... ...l to understand the principle on which people regulate their choice. I see women marrying indiscrimi- nately with staring burgesses and ferret-faced, ... ..., to reign here and revel. Indeed, if this be love at all, it is plain the poets have been fooling with mankind since the foundation of the world. And... ...al. I have spo- ken with Jesuits and Plymouth Brethren, mathematicians and poets, dogmatic republicans and dear old gentlemen in bird’s-eye neckcloths... ... All this, and much more of the same sort, accompanied by the eloquence of poets, has gone a great way to put humanity in error; nay, in many philosop... ...LD IN WHICH WE LIVE has been variously said and sung by the most ingenious poets and phi losophers: these reducing it to formulae and chemi- cal ingre...

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...ck on Ireson, an’ swore he was respons’ble for the hull act. ‘Tweren’t the women neither that tarred and feathered him-Marblehead women don’t act that... ...en they had to ask that Beverly man how he was off for beans, because even poets must not have things all their own way. Every schooner and nearly eve... ...pieces of coal, and the Gloucester men shouted messages to their wives and womenfolks and owners, while the We’re Here finished the musical ride throu... ... gray seas. He had surrounded her ‘with doctors, trained nurses, mas- sage-women, and even faith-cure companions, but they were useless. Mrs. Cheyne l... ...hips; the wife dying, or worse; he himself was trodden down by platoons of women and doctors and maids and atten- dants; worried almost beyond enduran... ...be sea costumes were playing cards by the saloon skylight; and a couple of women with red and blue parasols looked on and laughed noisily . “Shouldn’t...

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...iwin it should be observed ’nobody knows better than you, ma’am, what us women owe to our selves.’ ‘Owe indeed, ma’am!’ replied Mrs Jiniwin. ‘When ... ...r; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no ... ... she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; ... ...oper thing indeed, what Mrs George has said,!’ exclaimed the old lady. ‘If women are only true to themselves! But Betsy isn’t, and more’s the shame... ...gain, and in short performed so many horrifying and uncommon acts that the women were nearly frightened out of their wits, and began to doubt if he we... ... honour, ma’am, you’ll find in a certain angle of that dreary pile, called Poets’ Corner, a few smaller names than Slum,’ retorted that gentle man, t...

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...WEETHEARTS A MIDDLE AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advance... ...r ing fair to sell him. They had not gone far when they met with a troop of women collected round a well, talking and laughing. “Look there,” cried o... ...imself. In this manner they had not proceeded far when they met a company of women and children: “Why, you lazy old fellow,” cried several tongues at ... ...d History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscu rity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek ...

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..., somehow, as I had seen imagined in lit- erature. Was she not a friend of poets, a correspondent of philosophers, a muse, a priestess of aesthetics—s... ...e will of my own! I find there is a world to know, a life to lead, men and women to form a thousand relations with. It all lies there like a great sur... ...ering seemed puzzled; he smiled a little. “Is not that what you say of bad women?” “Of some—of those who are found out.” “Well,” he said, still smilin... ...ocess. She looks wonderfully well, from here. It’s extraordinary how those women last!” “You don’t mean, I take it, when you talk about ‘those women,’... ...uld drop their voice when they 28 Eugene Pickering speak of her. But some women are never at their ease till they have given some damnable twist or o... ...versive of several respectable institutions. Besides, he didn’t believe in women knowing how to write at all, and it irritated him to see this inky go...

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...ketches may require the cau- tion that they are eighteenth-century men and women; some the warning that they are obviously caricatured, or set in desi... ... wonderful thing than any of their unlike- nesses. It is that they are all women, that they are all live citizenesses of the Land of Matters Unforgot,... ...d at him at table, and in- dulged him in all those innocent freedoms which women of figure may permit without the least sully of their virtue. But tho... ...irl whose eyes have made a conquest of you?” Joseph returned, that all the women he had ever seen were equally indifferent to him. “Oh then,” said the... ...ady, “you are a general lover. Indeed, you handsome fellows, like handsome women, are very long and difficult in fixing; but yet you shall never persu... ... suffering them to get the better of my vir- tue.” You have heard, reader, poets talk of the statue of Surprize; you have heard likewise, or else you ... ... deformed monster! whom priests have railed at, philosophers despised, and poets ridiculed; is 77 Fielding there a wretch so abandoned as to own thee... ...passed away two or three hours behind the scenes, where I met with several poets, with whom I made engagements at the taverns. Some of the players wer... ...e of our parties. At these meetings we were generally en- tertained by the poets with reading their performances, and by the players with repeating th...

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... dance at Wood's hall. The concert will be held under the patronage of th« Women's Guild of St. Mark's Church. Heretic", published not long since in a... ...preciation from the audience, but the adult per- sonages, particularly the women, possessed very little character, and suffer much by comparison with ... ...asses of garments, those worn by men were called chiton and those worn by -women, peplos. The wife made the garments and they were held in high esteem... ...ion pinned at both shoul- ders instead of one. The clothing of the Grecian women was the subject treated by Benham '10. The peplos, their form of dres... ...t the sun; while the pelius was worn by sailors and other working-men. The women usual- ly usfid some head-dress contriv- ance in lieu of a hat. and w... ...agination, nourished doubtless by a loving familiarity of the best English poets. While in n degree imitative, the imitation is none the less creditab...

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...and carried it so respectfully to his lips, that he might be said to have deposited a sigh upon it rather than a kiss. In the meantime Mademoiselle de... ...elancholy moaning of the water which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet ... ...s. Cropole was feeding their gossip with his own personal remarks, without observing that an old man on foot, but leading a small Irish horse by the b... ..., at a sign of approbation from M. de Mazarin, the king arose, and, at the invitation of his aunt, walked about among the ranks of the assembly. The l... ...cry of joy, leant out of the carriage window, and seeing the cavalier approach- ing, held out her arms, exclaiming: “Ah, my dear sire!” and the tears ... ...ers, looked, with a smile upon his thin, in- tellectual lips, sometimes at the people vociferating their blessings, and sometimes at the prince, who p... ... to do the honors of the house in his absence. Upon the arrival of the superintendent, a murmur of joy and affection was heard; Fouquet, full of affab... ...t alone; our business to-day is with the faisans truffes of M. Vatel.” This speech stopped the dark cloud which was beginning to throw its shade over ... ...- ficial fires, which, inflaming the heavens with glowing re- flections, marked behind the trees the dark profile of the donjon of Vincennes; as, we s...

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... class includes slaves and other de- pendents, and ordinarily also all the women. If there are sev- eral grades of aristocracy, the women of high rank... ...t at which a marked distinction is made between the occupations of men and women, and this distinction is of an invidious character. In nearly all the... ...s distinction is of an invidious character. In nearly all these tribes the women are, by prescriptive custom, held to those employments out of which t... ...s no less indispensable to the life of the group than the work done by the women. It may even be that the men’s work contrib- utes as much to the food... ...In his own eyes he is not a labourer, and he is not to be classed with the women in this respect; nor is his effort to be classed with the women’s dru... ...se circumstances may be gath- ered from descriptions of beautiful women by poets and writers of the chivalric times. In the conventional scheme of tho...

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...ons, pretending to decency in initials and dashes: That man was a hater of women and the clergy. He was one of the horrid creatures who write with a w... ...was not Countess Fanny’s naughtiness, though she was indeed very blamable. Women should walk in armour as if they were born to it; for these cold snee... ...d with an old white flannel cloak, and on her head a tall hat of her Welsh women-folk; and she died of it, leaving a son in her likeness, of whom you ... ...us to make us feel snug in our own importance. My opinion is, that men and women grow to their dimensions only where such is the case. We had our alar... ...e energy of stature, delightful to her contemplation. And he had the mouth women put faith in for decision and fixedness. She did, most fully; and ref... ...hawkers, tinkers, tramps and ploughmen, choughs and crows. A volume of our Poets and a History of Philosophy composed my library. I had scarce any mon... ...e acquaintance with their linea- ments inspired a regard for them, such as poets may feign the throned high moon to entertain for objects causing her ... ... weapon of the man’s weakness. For which my lord calls them heartless, and poets are angry with them, rightly or wrongly. It must, I fear, be admitted...

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...s, would have set them down to some affection of the heart or lungs, while poets would have attributed them to the havoc brought by the search for kno... ... sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never possessed. Your wars and revolutions come up before... ...ast, and strong enough to bring about three days of delirium! Pas- sionate women’s forms should grace that night! I would be borne away to unknown reg... ...ent dinner every day, and the play at frequent intervals, where profligate women swarm, where suppers last on into the next day, and light loves are h... ...e most adorable of all countries, the country of joy, liberty, wit, pretty women, mauvais sujets, and good wine; where the truncheon of authority neve... ...young writers who lacked ideas, and au- thors of poetical prose by prosaic poets. At the sight of all these incomplete beings, a simple Saint Simonian... ...olden chandelier, round about a table inlaid with gilded metal, a group of women, whose eyes shone like diamonds, suddenly met the stupefied stare of ... ...ps brought by Aquilina, and began to talk with her. In the eyes of the two poets she soon became trans- formed into some sombre allegory, of I know no... ...le of love or of steady purpose; a too active imagina- tion, that curse of poets, was no doubt the cause. My silence was idiotic; and as I daresay I a...

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...with natures unsullied by the world, with the quiet thinker, and with such poets among the poets as have never fallen into any excess. Since the old m... ...s harsh and rasping as a file. Caustic to excess she had few friends among women; she surrounded herself with prim, elderly matrons of her own stamp, ... ... her work with more agility. Mme. Cibot had attained the time of life when women of her stamp are obliged to shave —which is as much as to say that sh... ... of view. Paris, in his opinion, was a perpetual hurly- burly, the men and women in it were whirled away by a tempestuous waltz; it was no use expecti... ... dress; indeed, the one expensive taste which she had not was a liking for women. She took a dislike to little Fritz, and would perhaps have driven hi... ...sterpieces arranged by two musicians—both of whom alike had attained to be poets. With a tact which avoided the difficulties of a late appear- ance on... ...voided the difficulties of a late appear- ance on the scene of action, the women were the first to arrive; they wished to be on their own ground. Pons...

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...ender art thou of thy people,” said the Tigress. “They are my own. The old women dream of me turning in their sleep; the maids look and listen for me ... ...eople.” “It is very far away,” grunted Bhairon. “Also, it is a lie.” “Many women have kissed Krishna. They told him this to cheer their own hearts whe... ...p while she gathers the pretty flowers—yes, an’ pick a maouthful, too. The women-folk all say I hev to be humoured, an’ I don’t kerry things to the sw... ...an’ his high-toned, pure-souled horsehood, which don’t hender him sheddin’ women an’ childern, an’ fallin’ over the dash onter men. You heard his talk... ...the length o’ the country, traded off an’ traded on, boastin’ as he’s shed women—an’ childern. I don’t say as a woman in a buggy ain’t a fool. I don’t... ...flected red from the twirling metal. He be- lieves that there are only two poets in the world; one being Robert Burns, of course, and the other Gerald...

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...g of the beginning, there was a little girl, LIFE, a Puer Eternus¸ as other poets have called it. She liked to play with soap bubbles, just like litt... ...asures of wisdom equal to those written by the Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese poets in their sacred poems, written in more or less the same epoch (VII C... ... Cosmo-Art. These pathways both affirm and activate the ability of men and women to be born, to grow and to become artists of their own lives and of... ... a work of art, instead of feeding into an infinite destructivity. Men and women, if so inclined, can choose the freedom to love themselves instead o...

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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course of his l...

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...trice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader STARTING FROM PAUMANOK SONG OF MYSELF CHILDREN OF ADAM To the Garden the World From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Ma...

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...er cloud pale eyelids falling on dream dimmed eyes: I cried in my dream, O women, bid the young men lay Their heads on your knees, and drown their eye... ... TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY O CLOUD PALE eyelids, dream dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overt... ...is eyes. And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke All manner of blessed souls, Women and children, young men with books, And old men with croziers and sto... ...F W.B. YEATS THE LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS O WOMEN, kneeling by your altar rails long hence, When songs I wove for my be... ...e all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss ... ...Of the hunter’s moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden ... ...ECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS TO A POET, WHO WOULD HA VE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS OF HIS AND MINE YOU say, as I have often given tongue In p... ... 1914 98 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS RESPONSIBILITIES THE GREY ROCK Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here... ...nous, Great works constructed there in nature’s spite For scholars and for poets after us, Thoughts long knitted into a single thought, A dance like g...

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...t indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ab... ...nce as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniten... ...tion are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women’s coiffure and the favor- ite love-stories in prose and verse. Here a... ...ressiveness of a fine quota- tion from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as b... ...olitical troubles as the proprietor of a respectable family estate. Y oung women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a villa... ...n would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of socie... ...h to a plunge which his stream would afford him; and he concluded that the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion. Nevertheless, he... ...o write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.” “Y ou will say anything, Fred, to gain your point.” “W ell, tell me... ...hese sights of his youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a rel...

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... indefi niteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ab... ...lity to count three 2 Book I — Miss Brooke and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefinitenes... ...tion are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women’s coiffure and the favorite love stories in prose and verse. Here and... ...impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as b... ...political troubles as the proprietor of a respectable family estate. Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country house, and at tending a vil... ...n would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of socie... ...h to a plunge which his stream would afford him; and he concluded that the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion. Nevertheless, he... ...o write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.” “You will say anything, Fred, to gain your point.” “Well, tell me w... ...hese sights of his youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the poets. had made a philosophy for him without the aid of philosophers, a rel...

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...ere were numbers of tenants in the building, almost all artisans or German women who let lodgings with board and attendance. The superintendent of the... ...out him; something dominating and powerful. He was extremely attractive to women, and an intrigue with a society beauty gave him a scandalous renown. ... ...s not what one would call a poet’s. They’re pale, they say , you know, the poets, and with hair like this, you know, and a look in their eyes … like G... ...rieved, though she has no misfortune or grievance. There are many men like women in this respect, and men, indeed, by no means feeble, and who have ve... ...y to be angry with me for one observation, especially as it applies to all women. Y ou probably agree with this remark,” he went on, politely turning ... ...Bubnov woman’s a sly hag and a wicked wretch, she’s a silly woman like all women. The dead woman had a good passport and so everything was all right. ...