“No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.” MenFirstsHas BeensFallBirdOriginalsRoseNotesThroatOriginalityEdenFreshness Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!” ChildrenHas BeensSoulDoneLightFormSpiritNightLostAirStrangeWindShadowMurderWoodsInvisibleStealingGhostFancyFlashInheritancePalacesGraveyardCoffinsUneasyTollsLonesomeHoveringShroudsRoadsideCurfewDankFestering Book:The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems Source: The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems
“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.” KnowsMenWorldHas BeensSoulPovertyFineGoldPossessionNobleEnterpriseFewerRuinedGloom Book:Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers Source: Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers
