“Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.” IfsMindLongWaterSixSummerLowsRiversEightMilesBarsBoatDryLazyAutumnPoolTwistedWadeQuicksandShuddering Book:Goodbye to a river: a narrative Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative
“By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.” LongEarthPastFormGivenHeavenMemoriesWhiteTreeWoodsSpotsMelancholyPoolAgonyGreySighTravellerSwampsWanderersToadsNewtsPast MemoriesAghast Book:The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms Source: The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms
“Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.” IfsWayYearsLongSaidStillsCountrySchoolMorningDogLoversHolyShadowGreenWarmBeerBritainFiftyPoolCommunionCricketMistInvincibleSuburbsMaidsDog LoverWell SaidHoly CommunionOld MaidsFillersLong ShadowsMorning Mist Author:John Major