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... break. Somehow the dragon's litanies of pain had given something to the soul- broken, the heavy-hearted, the exiled, the disgraced, the suicidal, a... ...logy of Grief,' et cetera. Keeper of Wisdom. Student and Teacher of the Soul. Bondmate of the Fair Nü-kua " "STOP!" The feline recoiled from t... ...ll shards. Even if he hadn't been my blood father, he was the sire of my soul. He made me rich when the world wanted me poor." "But these cavern... ...'s true; size doesn't equal brains. Still, it will be fun to talk to the blue-eyed ones again. At least, they were interesting." "Don't hold your... ... of the magic makers, the spellbinders, the star trippers, the poets, the singers. Once read, once heard, they haunt, dreams in the mist. Their ec... ...a," Erh-lang yelled after it. "You think I'm dumb! Wait'll you and that blue-eyed freak see me fly. Wait'll that morsel Nü-kua sees me." "Why di... ...nd now sat on his outstretched talon. "So, you're Thoth, the Last of the Blue-Eyed." The cat licked a paw and did a quick jowl wash. This cat mov...

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...re—the mix of earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to t... ...t seems perfectly clear. If handwriting truly showed the architecture of the soul, then Jefferson’s would conjure up Monticello or the Univer- sity of... ...What comparison could there be between a man, the very substance of man, his soul, and a field, a tree, a vine, that nature has offered in the beginnin... ...right? How would the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would th... ...east till he figures out how to get his own shit together. T oday I hear some singers who I think sound like me. Joe Cocker, for instance. Man, I know ... ...s, runs the seam of race. When white musicians “borrowed” from soul to make “blue-eyed soul,” when Elvis took songs and styles from rhythm and blues a... ...ms that there was a different source, a mysterious song by the Bailey Gospel Singers, or the Harold Bailey Gospel Singers, called “I’ve Got a Savior.”...

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...t, looking as if recently beaten. As we drank, the melancholy of Alcaeus’ soul spread, seeping through taut throat muscles: intelligent things said ... ...drew and Phillip criticized the miracle. They said I could change a man’s soul as easily. They were afraid. Mother, walking with us, defended me and ... ...ned as we talked of John’s imprisonment, torture, death. Elihu is a frail soul, so unlike John. He is so in need of encouragement. He tells me that ... ... in the world.” Tony is so enormous, so muscular, his satins often split. Blue-eyed, genial, bowing, a little too obsequious, he sometimes dabs perf... ... together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... I loaned her little sums; she lent me money; she sent m... ...ness, out of the wilderness...” I turned in mighty late that night, yet singers were still singing, singing “Gen- tle Annie” and other favorites. ...

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...hought of this individual just as it had when he actually encountered him in Soul. Sang Huin was always traveling--especially when he was in the State... ...gh the continual exposure to greenery and remoteness had been healing to his soul. He left the bus in Chongju (where he was more or less residing) an... ...e. Here he often felt like a handicapped moron. If he were an Anglo-Saxon, a blue-eyed Miguk sarem English teacher, spending 6 months in the host coun... ...ed one since he knew that it might be true that he was one of those tattered souls who weren't needing to learn how to be loving at this point but jus... ...t to him as to other foreigners, "Taxi cab! Border line, Mister!"; mariachi singers; zebra wagons for tourist photos; Burger King; stores with rectan...

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... Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith, The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?— All, all are sleeping on the hil... ...y set the lips, and sagged the cheeks, And drooped the eye with sorrow. My soul had entered in the clay, Fighting like seven devils. It was not mine, ... ...u enter the room that’s being born; And then you must live work out your soul, Of the cross-current in life Which Bring honor to the dead, who lived... ... 60 Spoon River Anthology Elsa Wertman I WA S a peasant girl from Germany, Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was at Thom... ...of us, Knowing not what we do, devour their flesh; And all of us change to singers, although it be But once in our lives, or change—alas!—to swallows,... ... urns of memory, treasured, perhaps, as themes For hearts heroic, fearless singers and livers— Delphic Apollo. The Spooniad OF John Cabanis, wrath and...

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...own Germany. And how much has that old imperial vanity clung to the German soul? Did not the German kings inherit the empire of bygone Rome? It was no... ...he crucifix itself is nothing, a factory-made piece of sentimentalism. The soul ignores it. But gradually, one after another looming shadowily under t... ...e peasant, but also with a kind of dogged nobility that does not yield its soul to the circumstance. Plain, almost blank in his soul, the middle-aged ... ... varied: the dark-skinned Italians ecstatic in the night and the moon, the blue-eyed old woman ecstatic in the busy sunshine, the monks in the garden ... ...-respectable cafe. These young men are all free-think- ers, great dancers, singers, players of the guitar. They are im- moral and slightly cynical. Th...

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... in his impatience, wild in anticipation. The curtain came down, the great singers bowed, and Siegmund felt the spattering roar of applause quicken hi... ...uicken his pulse. It was hoarse, and savage, and startling on his inflamed soul, making him shiver with anticipation, as if something had brushed his ... ... This was one of the crises of his life. For years he had sup- pressed his soul, in a kind of mechanical despair doing his duty and enduring the rest.... ... kind of mechanical despair doing his duty and enduring the rest. Then his soul had been softly enticed from its bondage. Now he was going to break fr... ...m as he cried in German that here was room for all. Faces innumerable—hot, blue-eyed faces— strained to look over his shoulders at the shocked girl an... ... land now and then, while she watched the sky. The sunset was stately. The blue-eyed day, with great limbs, having fought its victory and won, now mou...

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...ghing. “He may go back and tell Miss Pinkerton that I hate her with all my soul; and I wish he would; and I wish I had a means of proving it, too. For... ...Rebecca if Miss Pinkerton was at home: she was as well known to them, poor soul! as Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Rebecca had the honour to pas... ... lonely here as in his jungle at Boggley Wollah. He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of ... ...ashion forty years ago, and in which Brit- ish tars, our King, poor Susan, blue-eyed Mary, and the like, were the principal themes. They are not, it i... ...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;...

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...e man in England who could make a gentleman of him, went to the perfumer’s soul; and if there was one thing on earth he longed for (not including the ... ... Wives “How are you, Tiny my buck?” says the Captain. “Much doing?” “Not a soul in town. I ‘aven’t touched the hirons all day,” replied Mr. Eglantine,... ...ir, and only act as a friend between you and him. I give you my honour and soul, I do.” “I know you do, my dear sir.” The last two speeches were lies.... ... his daughter’s exertions, a considerable capitalist. Amelia is blonde and blue-eyed, her complexion is as bright as snow, her ring- 54 Men’s Wives l... ...n Miss Brunck and Miss Horsman, the two contraltos, and between the chorus-singers, after their kind) a great rivalry arose. Larkins was certainly the... ...whenever she was wanted, or when people could not afford to hire the first singers) she was asked to parties else- where, and treated with that killin... ...he manager, whose actions were worth of remark. He sang with all the three singers, and a great deal louder than any of them; he shouted bravo! or his...

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...heat of his frame. “Oh, that, like our Dante, I had lived in the days when souls were damned! Then would I uplift another shout, be- lieve me! As thin... ... under the beak of the vulture, and has twice been devoured; but she has a soul: she proves it. Ammiani, too, will prove his value. I have no doubt of... ...pon their polluted cheeks! They get us an ill name wherever they go. These singers have 16 Vittoria no country. One—I knew her—betrayed Filippo Masta... ...t I shall be ready.” “There are no squabbles of any serious kind among the singers?” A soft dimple played for a moment on her lips. “I have heard some... ...es, at first with shut eyes. The sense of hostility left her, and left her soul free, and she raised them. The song was of Camilla dying. She pardons ... ...’ 110 Vittoria She hardly listened to Vittoria’s statement that the chief singers in the new opera were engaged to attend a meeting at eleven at nigh... ... to make way ahead. In the English group were two sunny-haired girls and a blue-eyed lady with the famous English curls, full, and rounding richly. Th...

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...en. Ortheris—landed at last in the ‘little stuff bird-shop’ for which your soul longed; Learoyd—back again in the smoky, stone-ribbed North, amid the ... ...ey joined the low coast of Malacca away to the eastward. The voices of the singers at the harmonium were held down by the awnings, and came to us with... ...small that she could not have struck even a log in the water without every soul on board feeling the jar; and even if she had struck something, it wou... ...ree down, for no assignable reason, with eighty bags of mail, five hundred souls, and not a single packet insured, on just such a night as this.’ ... ...who, on the faith of a call, went into the wilderness and took the blonde, blue-eyed Lotta with him. ‘We will these Heathen now by idolatrous practice...

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...ghing. “He may go back and tell Miss Pinkerton that I hate her with all my soul; and I wish he would; and I wish I had a means of proving it, too. For... ...Rebecca if Miss Pinkerton was at home: she was as well known to them, poor soul! as Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Rebecca had the honour to pas... ... lonely here as in his jungle at Boggley Wollah. He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of ... ...ashion forty years ago, and in which Brit- ish tars, our King, poor Susan, blue-eyed Mary, and the like, were the principal themes. They are not, it i... ...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;... ...n his profession. Glorvina, a very handsome, fresh-coloured, black-haired, blue-eyed young lady, who could ride a horse, or play a sonata with any gir... ...on were seated in the little draw- ing-room, listening to the professional singers, who were sing- ing according to their wont, and as if they wished ...

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... liked to have had it otherwise, I must submit. I feel, from all I have heard of you, that you will see it done decently and in order. Little does it ... ...y attention in pronouncing our beau- tiful burial service over my poor unfortunate son’s remains. God grant that your prayers over him may reach the M... ...f her forefinger, pointed out the woman in question. The elder of this pair, ninety-three, seated before an illustrated newspaper (but not reading it)... ...ster of a tunnel kept its jaws open, as if it had swallowed them and were ravenous for more destruction. The coach that had carried me away, was melod... ...and was, I left the place with a heavy heart for a walk all over the town. And first of Timpson’s up-street. When I departed from Dullborough in the s... ...gical periods, Criticism on Milton, the Steam-engine, John Bunyan, and Arrow-Headed Inscriptions, before they might be tickled by those unac- countabl... ...nt sight to see. Scattered through this country are mighty works of Vauban, whom you know about, and regiments of such corporals as you heard of once ... ... girl, was writing another letter on the bare deck. Later in the day, when this self-same boat was filled with a choir who sang glees and catches for ...

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...ising hotly to his cheek with pain and shame. ‘Oh, Sir, let me but save my soul, and find peace in Coldingham!’ ‘My poor bairn,’ said his uncle, layin... ...there, one need not be forced to treachery or violence. Oh, Uncle! my very soul is sick for Coldingham. How many years will it be ere I can myself bes... ...here a Scotsman can seek his fortune with honour, and without staining his soul with foul deeds. Bring our King home, and every sword shall be at his ... ...ed his young kinsman to the true Joan Beaufort—fair-haired, soft-featured, blue-eyed, and with a lovely air of graciousness, as she greeted him with a... ...ng lay of victory was over; and King Henry had roused himself to thank the singers, then sighed, and said, ‘How long ago that was!’ ‘Six years,’ said ...

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...eating or drink- ing more, and letting myself die. What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary after- noon! How all my brain was in tumult, and ... ...hild of five years old only a day or two since,—a good little child, whose soul is now in heaven. It is to be feared the same could not be said of you... ... bad, hard-hearted. Yo u are deceitful!” Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of tri... ...te conversation. I remembered his fine voice; I knew he liked to sing—good singers generally do. I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fas- tidious ju... ...rettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination,— tall, fair, blue-eyed, and with a Grecian profile. Y our eyes dwell on a Vulcan,—a real...

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...es; but Apuleius himself either found it, or adapted it to the idea of the Soul (the Life) awakened by Love, grasping too soon and impatiently, then l... ...labours till her hopes are crowned even at the gates of death. Psyche, the soul or life, whose emblem is the butterfly, thus even in heathen philosoph... ... a while. Christians gave a higher meaning to the fable, and saw in it the Soul, or the Church, to whom her Bridegroom has been for a while made known... ...ster’s safety, and hailing as a kind of hopeful augury this verse from the singers— “At home, abroad, in peace, in war Thy God shal... ...The triad were not much alike: Amoret was the largest of the three, plump, blue-eyed, golden-haired, rosy-cheeked, a 66 Love and Life picture of the ...

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...ng book very clearly. His struggle with fear was the very beginning of his soul’s history. It continued to the end. He had hardly decided to lead the ... ...e con- tempt of his detestable indifference sank deeper and deeper into my soul. I knew that were the cage to vanish I should stand there motionless, ... ...o be practically epidemic, created a strong feeling in her favour. She was blue-eyed and very delicately complexioned, quick- moving, witty, given to ... ..., uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in hall next day, “we are going to drive to-morro... ...er of charming people of the war that was then imminent, listened to gipsy singers until dawn, careered in sledges about the most silent and stately o...

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...us believe with Pindar, that All human bodies yield to Death’s decree, The soul survives to all eternity. For that alone is derived from the gods, the... ...most entirely pure and clean and free from the flesh; for the most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as light... ...eve that, according to their divine nature and law, their virtue and their souls are translated out of men into heroes, out of heroes into demi-gods, ... ...n Homer. On some great and unusual occasion we find him say: — But him the blue-eyed goddess did inspire; and elsewhere: — But some immortal turned my... ...hows, the one an enter- tainment of flute-players the other of dithyrambic singers; Dion, the Syracusan, supplying the expenses of the latter, and Pel... ...fellowship, a total revo- lution, and was gentle and tractable with common singers and dancers, and ready to oblige anyone that spoke with him. It see...

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...res- sion; yet at times the pain was so exquisite that I could hardly keep the tears back. At those times, as the howlings and wailings and shrieking ... ... of people marched around and around, in the third act, and sang the Wedding Chorus. To my untutored ear that was music—almost divine music. While my ... ..., once, and in Mannheim once, and in Munich (through my authorized agent) once, and this large experience had nearly persuaded me that the Germans pre... ... sufferer said: “There is one more, but I have not the courage to—O my lost Catharina!” One of the old dames said: Mark Twain 92 “Ah, I knew her well... ...the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to e... ...ome valuable, some worth- less; some of great interest, some of none at all. I bought a couple—one a gorgeous duke of the olden time, and the other a ...

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... “What’s that that whimpers over’ead?” said Files-on-Parade. “It’s Danny’s soul that’s passin’ now”, the Colour-Sergeant said. For they’re done wi... ... full kit. Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, ‘ow’s yer soul?” But it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll,... ...nd no canteen; ‘E’ll be squattin’ on the coals Givin’ drink to poor damned souls, An’ I’ll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din! Yes, Din! Din! Din... ... he heard the matchlocks clink, he blessed the King again. Which thing the singers made a song for all the world to sing, So that the Outer Seas may k... ...ed to the goose-quill, a fist was cramped to scrawl, When — the laugh of a blue-eyed maiden ran clear through the council-hall. And each one heard Her...

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...he hurried to Edmonton in the spring of the year; and there, unluckily for his soul’s welfare, he allied himself with a party of men. There was nothin... ... the portages. Severe toil like this lays a man naked to the very roots of his soul, and ere Lake Athabasca was lost in the south, each member of the ... ...uld have opened the eyes of their comrades who were now wearing out bodies and souls on the Long Trail. All care was banished. The forest, which shoul... ...me to pass in the time when the fools are dead, and when there will be no more singers to stand still and sing the ‘Song of the Bees.’ Bees are not me... ...r women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants, and his high chiefs with their w...

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...spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to find, and still seek... ... political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole responsibility of that dee... ...Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that as- sassination shows greatness of soul?” said the little prin- cess, smiling and drawing her work nearer to h... ... Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re all regular Germans.” “Singers to the front “ came the captain’s order. And from the different ran... ...nty men ran to the front. A drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing his arm, began a long-drawn- out soldiers’ song, c... ...round, the drummer—a lean, handsome soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eye... ...le from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the com- pany, a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. It was Dolokhov marching ... ...new to them in the provinces. All the evening Nicholas paid attention to a blue-eyed, plump and pleasing little blonde, the wife of one of the provinc...

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...ell cald by name From whome alas . to sone for hers here left Hath God her Soule deth her lyfe byreft, —Anno 1559.” His property at Hursley descende... ...ned a First-class in his B.A. ex- amination, and was elected Fellow of All Souls in November 1822. He began to read at the T emple, but in April 1825 ... ...ms rising higher and into greater beauty, some deeper and showing that the soul had made further progress in these twenty years, some 60 John... ...lace in Church, which was more im- portant when there was no choir and the singers sat in the gallery. He was very happy in this office, moving about ...

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...od it. At night we feasted in the Great Hall, and when the harpers and the singers were gone we four sat late at the high table. As I remember, it was... ... he held us by force many months in his ship, but I loved that bow-legged, blue-eyed man for his great boldness, his cunning, his skill, and, beyond a... ... since when thou wast a lad at Tours. Tell it nimbly!” “‘Ye shame me to my soul,” said Fulke. “‘Then I have done what neither King nor Duke could do,”... ...it will only be till I win Gaul. One must always risk one’s life, or one’s soul, or one’s peace—or some little thing.” ‘Allo passed round the fire wit... ...s, marched off to roast potatoes at the oast-house, where old Hobden, with Blue-eyed Bess, his lurcher dog, lived all the month through, drying the ho... ...el an’ Brenzett reeds, I reckon you know what my mind needs! I’ve given my soul to the Southdown grass, An’ sheep-bells tinkled where you pass. Oh, Fi...

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...an I’ll die! It’s my intent to be a gentle- man. It’s my game. Death of my soul, I play it out wherever I go!’ He changed his posture to a sitting one... ... noble hearts out so; no man thinking of it; not even the beloved of their souls realising it; great kings and governors, who had made them captive, c... ... hideous. Melancholy streets, in a peniten- tial garb of soot, steeped the souls of the people who were condemned to look at them out of windows, in d... ...d not kept, in those days of his youth and prosperity, an idle house where singers, and play- ers, and such-like children of Evil turned their backs o...

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...and became motionless. “Att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul- shaking voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regim... ... Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re all regular Germans.” “Singers to the front “ came the captain’s order. And from the different ran... ...round, the drummer—a lean, handsome soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eye... ...file from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. It was Dolokhov marching ... ...is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky… we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.” The... ...Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the rivu- let flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was heard, and much farther...