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 22
... night ! All presages and prophecies of doom Glimmered and babbled in the ghastly gloom , And in the midst of that accursed scene A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb . ELIXIR VITÆ Of life's elixir I had writ , when sleep ( Pray Heaven it ...
... night ! All presages and prophecies of doom Glimmered and babbled in the ghastly gloom , And in the midst of that accursed scene A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb . ELIXIR VITÆ Of life's elixir I had writ , when sleep ( Pray Heaven it ...
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... night . GEOTHEOS As sweet as the look of a lover Saluting the eyes of a maid That blossom to blue as the maid Is ablush to the glances above her , The sunshine is gilding the glade And lifting the lark out of shade . Sing therefore high ...
... night . GEOTHEOS As sweet as the look of a lover Saluting the eyes of a maid That blossom to blue as the maid Is ablush to the glances above her , The sunshine is gilding the glade And lifting the lark out of shade . Sing therefore high ...
الصفحة 30
... night . Picked clean , they lie on the cumbered ground , And the politician's paunch is round ; And he strokes it down and across as he sings : ( ( I've eaten my fill of the legs and wings , The neck , the back , the pontifical nose ...
... night . Picked clean , they lie on the cumbered ground , And the politician's paunch is round ; And he strokes it down and across as he sings : ( ( I've eaten my fill of the legs and wings , The neck , the back , the pontifical nose ...
الصفحة 44
... home . - DANENHOWER . From the regions of the Night , Coming with recovered sight- From the spell of darkness free , What will Danenhower see ? He will see when he arrives Doctors taking human lives 4-4 THE COLLECTED WORKS VISIONS OF.
... home . - DANENHOWER . From the regions of the Night , Coming with recovered sight- From the spell of darkness free , What will Danenhower see ? He will see when he arrives Doctors taking human lives 4-4 THE COLLECTED WORKS VISIONS OF.
الصفحة 45
... night by night ; Never both upon a side , Though their fees they still divide . Preachers he will see who teach That it is divine to preach- That they fan a sacred fire And are worthy of their hire . He will see a trusted wife , Pride ...
... night by night ; Never both upon a side , Though their fees they still divide . Preachers he will see who teach That it is divine to preach- That they fan a sacred fire And are worthy of their hire . He will see a trusted wife , Pride ...
المحتوى
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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...