Author:Amanda VaillPublisher:Houghton Mifflin The story of Gerald and Sara Murphy has been told before, by Calvin Tomkins and their daughter, Honoria Murphy Donnelly, but the…
PityThey never saw my lover's face,
They only know our love was brief,
Wearing awhile a windy grace
And passing like an autumn leaf.They wonder why I do not weep,
They think it…
The YearsTo-night I close my eyes and see
A strange procession passing me—
The years before I saw your face
Go by me with a wistful grace;
They pass, the sensitive shy years,
As one who…
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by Ambrose Bierce WITTICISMWORMS'-MEATWOMAN -n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication It is credited by many of the…
by EmilyDickinsonMy CricketXLVIXLV As imperceptibly as grief
The summer lapsed away, —
Too imperceptible, at last,
To seem like perfidy. A quietness distilled,
As twilight long begun,
Or…
XVII I Had a Guinea Golden A Portrait A face devoid of love or grace,
A hateful, hard, successful face,
A face with which a stone
Would feel as thoroughly at ease
As were they…
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