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 14
... WISE AND GOOD ... 274 AN IMPOSTOR .308 THE LOST COLONEL ... 275 FRANCE .... ..309 FOR TAT ..278 A GUEST .310 A DILEMMA .279 A FALSE PROPHECY ..... 311 METEMPSYCHOSIS .281 A SONG OF THE MANY..312 THE SAINT AND THE ONE MORNING .313 MONK ...
... WISE AND GOOD ... 274 AN IMPOSTOR .308 THE LOST COLONEL ... 275 FRANCE .... ..309 FOR TAT ..278 A GUEST .310 A DILEMMA .279 A FALSE PROPHECY ..... 311 METEMPSYCHOSIS .281 A SONG OF THE MANY..312 THE SAINT AND THE ONE MORNING .313 MONK ...
الصفحة 19
... solemn 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.
... solemn 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 37
... wise , Turn to the west their serious eyes And dumbly strive to be as we . As when the sun's returning flame Upon the Nileside statue shone , And struck from the enchanted stone The music of a mighty fame , Let Man salute the rising day ...
... wise , Turn to the west their serious eyes And dumbly strive to be as we . As when the sun's returning flame Upon the Nileside statue shone , And struck from the enchanted stone The music of a mighty fame , Let Man salute the rising day ...
الصفحة 43
... wise who'd lived in jails ; Seas of a denser fluid , white with sails . Pushed at by currents moving here and there And sensible to sight above the flat Of that opaquer deep . Ah , strange and fair The nether world that I was gazing at ...
... wise who'd lived in jails ; Seas of a denser fluid , white with sails . Pushed at by currents moving here and there And sensible to sight above the flat Of that opaquer deep . Ah , strange and fair The nether world that I was gazing at ...
الصفحة 58
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
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...