The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume IV: Shapes of ClayWildside Press LLC, 01/06/2008 - 372 من الصفحات Volume 4 of the "Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce" (title: "Shapes of Clay") is a facsimile reprint of the 250-copy limited edition of 1910. |
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الصفحة 19
... secret keep Of life and death stayed by the truce of sleep , Yet whispered of an hour when sleepers wake , The fool to hope afresh , the wise to weep . The gardens greened upon the builded hills . Above the THE PASSING SHOW T A 67.
... secret keep Of life and death stayed by the truce of sleep , Yet whispered of an hour when sleepers wake , The fool to hope afresh , the wise to weep . The gardens greened upon the builded hills . Above the THE PASSING SHOW T A 67.
الصفحة 20
Shapes of Clay Ambrose Bierce. The gardens greened upon the builded hills . Above the tethered thunders of the mills With sleeping wheels unstirred to service yet By the tamed torrents and the quickened rills . A hewn acclivity ...
Shapes of Clay Ambrose Bierce. The gardens greened upon the builded hills . Above the tethered thunders of the mills With sleeping wheels unstirred to service yet By the tamed torrents and the quickened rills . A hewn acclivity ...
الصفحة 21
... with age , those lonely hills - ah me , How worn and weary they appeared to be ! Between their feet long dusty fissures clove The plain in aimless windings to the sea . One hill there was which , parted from the rest OF AMBROSE BIERCE 21.
... with age , those lonely hills - ah me , How worn and weary they appeared to be ! Between their feet long dusty fissures clove The plain in aimless windings to the sea . One hill there was which , parted from the rest OF AMBROSE BIERCE 21.
الصفحة 22
Shapes of Clay Ambrose Bierce. One hill there was which , parted from the rest , Stood where the eastern water curved a - west . Silent and passionless it stood . I thought I saw a scar upon its giant breast . The sun with sullen and ...
Shapes of Clay Ambrose Bierce. One hill there was which , parted from the rest , Stood where the eastern water curved a - west . Silent and passionless it stood . I thought I saw a scar upon its giant breast . The sun with sullen and ...
الصفحة 28
... of old . Sing songs of the pride of the mountains , And songs of the strength of the seas , And the fountains that fall to the seas From the hands of the hills , and the fountains 28 THE COLLECTED WORKS GEOTHEOS A TEAGOING ADMIRAL 72.
... of old . Sing songs of the pride of the mountains , And songs of the strength of the seas , And the fountains that fall to the seas From the hands of the hills , and the fountains 28 THE COLLECTED WORKS GEOTHEOS A TEAGOING ADMIRAL 72.
المحتوى
19 | |
THE JACK OF CLUBS | 98 |
TO BRIDGET | 104 |
PAGE | 106 |
TO A CENSOR | 110 |
A YEARS CASUALTIES | 118 |
A MEETING | 127 |
LAUS LUCIS | 138 |
ONE OF THE UNFAIR SEX | 205 |
THE FOLLOWING PAIR | 214 |
CONTENTMENT | 221 |
THE WOMAN | 254 |
DISAVOWAL | 262 |
A SERENADE | 273 |
A WHIPPERIN | 315 |
A KING OF CRAFT | 347 |
TO OSCAR WILDE | 144 |
THE PASSING OF SHEP | 197 |
POESY | 357 |
COOPERATION | 368 |
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الصفحة 38 - Give thou more or less, as we Shall serve the right or serve the wrong. Confirm our freedom but so long As we are worthy to be free. But when (O, distant be the time!) Majorities in passion draw Insurgent swords to murder Law, And all the land is red with crime...
الصفحة 37 - And bends him from his nearer sky. God of my country and my race! So greater than the gods of old— So fairer than the prophets told Who dimly saw and feared thy face,— Who didst but half reveal thy will And gracious ends to their desire, Behind the dawn's advancing fire Thy tender day-beam veiling still,— To whom the unceasing suns belong, And cause is one with consequence,— To whose divine, inclusive sense The moan is blended with the song,— Whose laws, imperfect and unjust, Thy just and...
الصفحة 39 - But when (ah, distant be the time!) Majorities in passion draw Insurgent swords to murder Law, And all the land is red with crime; Or — nearer menace! — when the band Of feeble spirits cringe and plead To the gigantic strength of Greed, And fawn upon his iron hand ; — Nay, when the steps to State are worn In hollows by the feet of thieves, And Mammon sits among the sheaves And chuckles while the reapers mourn; Then stay thy miracle! — replace The broken throne, repair the chain, Restore the...