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 28
... 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 praises , and ...
... 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 praises , and ...
الصفحة 33
... sweet as that " Yes " from the nose . Ah , well , if the dukes and the earls and that lot Can stand it ( God succor them if they can not ! ) Your commoners ought to assent , I am sure , And what they're not called on to suffer , endure ...
... sweet as that " Yes " from the nose . Ah , well , if the dukes and the earls and that lot Can stand it ( God succor them if they can not ! ) Your commoners ought to assent , I am sure , And what they're not called on to suffer , endure ...
الصفحة 42
... sweet faith that I have shown In their amending . " When so he'd said with solemn grace , As was that good soul's habit , The Thief directly into space Sprang like a rabbit ! ( He might have left at any time Had freedom been his passion ...
... sweet faith that I have shown In their amending . " When so he'd said with solemn grace , As was that good soul's habit , The Thief directly into space Sprang like a rabbit ! ( He might have left at any time Had freedom been his passion ...
الصفحة 53
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
الصفحة 68
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
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...