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...Burning:1 Burning 2 Un-Meaning Answering Stones Architectures No Track One Leaf Direction The Seas It Doesn’t Last Tangled History, Futures Programme Singing In The Silence Human Gatherers Of Light Powerless Directions Mind Through You I See Make R...

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...by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. ON A JANUARY EVENING of the ea... ... veyance in the line, instead of waiting till the cold-and-gin con- 4 The Age of Innocence gested nose of one’s own coachman gleamed under the por- t... ...g touch to her audacities by building a large house of pale cream-coloured stone (when brown sandstone seemed as much the only wear as a frock-coat in... ...er and more beautiful each year, she throned in Mr. Beaufort’s heavy brown-stone palace, and drew all the world there without lifting her jewelled lit... ...rhaps (for she was an impartial woman) even statelier; and that the cobble-stones over which the old clat- tering omnibuses bumped would be replaced b... ... her unqualified admiration. “It’s the new setting: of course it shows the stone beautifully, but it looks a little bare to old-fashioned eyes,” Mrs. ... ...mine, my dear? I like all the novelties,” said the ancestress, lifting the stone to her small bright orbs, which no glasses had ever disfigured. “V er...

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...or depth of natures bounds With prosperous wing full summ?d to tell of deeds Above Heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left through many an Age, Worthy t?have not remain?d so long unsung. Now had the great Proclaimer with a voice More awful then the sound of Trumpet, cri?d Repentance, and Heavens Kingdom nigh at hand To all Baptiz?d: to his great Baptism flock?d ...

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...Above Heroic, though in secret done, 15 And unrecorded left through many an Age, Worthy t’have not remain’d so long unsung. Now had the great... ...e it my whole delight, and in it grew To such perfection, that e’re yet my age Had measur’d twice six years, at our great Feast 210 I went into t... ...ship born; But if thou be the Son of God, Command That out of these hard stones be made thee bread; So shalt thou save thy self and us relieve ... ...omplishment Of greatest things; what woman will you find, Though of this Age the wonder and the fame, On whom his leisure will vouchsafe an eye ... ... sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts On Cittron tables or Atlantic stone; 115 (For I have also heard, perhaps have read) Their wines of ... ...shall be like a tree Spreading and over-shadowing all the Earth, Or as a stone that shall to pieces dash All Monarchies besides throughout the w... ...me with ease On David’s Throne; or Throne of all the world, Now at full age, fulness of time, thy season, 380 When Prophesies of thee are best f... ...hall up lift thee, lest at any time Thou chance to dash thy foot against a stone. To whom thus Jesus: also it is written, 560 Tempt not the L...

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... monument shall here be rais’d; Three several pillars, each a rough hewn stone, And planted where thy hoofs the turf have graz’d. And in the sum... ... who dwell among the woods of Ure. Then home he went, and left the Hart, stone-dead, With breathless nostrils stretch’d above the spring. And so... ...land did ring. Ere thrice the moon into her port had steer’d, A cup of stone receiv’d the living well; Three pillars of rude stone Sir Walter re... ...ein my horse to stop, I saw three pillars standing in a line, The last stone pillar on a dark hill-top. The trees were grey, with neither arms n... ... a hundred realms. The arbour does its own condition tell, You see the stones, the fountain, and the stream, But as to the great Lodge, you migh... ...had as white a head and fresh a cheek As ever were produc’d by youth and age Engendering in the blood of hale fourscore. For five long generatio... ...ht of what makes up a mother’s heart, This old Man in the day of his old age Was half a mother to them.—If you weep, Sir, To hear a stranger tal... ... Breath’d gently from the warm South-west; When in a voice sedate with age This Oak, half giant and half sage, His neighbour thus address’d. ... ...happy year Here spread his careless blossoms, here Attain’d a good old age. Even such as his may be may lot. What cause have I to haunt My h...

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...ce and dignity that characterize the Procuratie in the piazetta at Venice. Stone walls, admirably decorated, keep the rooms at a pleasantly cool tempe... ...outline at the foot of the Alps,—all the living thoughts which animate the stone, the bronze, and the trees, or express them- selves in garden plots,—... ...at means to enjoyment! V enice, the London of the Middle Ages, was falling stone by stone, man by man. The ominous green weed which the sea washes and... ...ich the torrent broke. The Prince, like Sisyphus, was constantly under the stone. “What on earth does the Duke do with a violin?” he won- dered. “Do I... ...o inventive a chisel that no two shapes are alike in the arabesques on the stones. How charming is that doorway! how mysterious the vaulted arcade lea... ...ers, express all we have ever imagined of the sacred marvels of that early age of humanity. “And yet this fine concerted piece is no more than a devel... ...arises a Homer of music, to whom God grants the gift of being ahead of his age; men who can compact melodies full of accomplished facts, pregnant with...

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...m who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forcast th... ...t all he was is overworn.’ 2 In Memoriam II. OLD Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, ... ...moriam LV. ‘SO careful of the type?’ but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries ‘a thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall... ... or will be dim, with weeds: 10 What fame is left for human deeds In endless age? It rests with God. O hollow wraith of dying fame, Fade wholly, while... ... In Memoriam CVII. I WILL not shut me from my kind, And, lest I stiffen into stone, I will not eat my heart alone, Nor feed with sighs a passing wind:...

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...ok more delight in than to see others painted. There was in the same city a young man of a very good family but of a somewhat reckless life, who had r... ...enough,” said he; and when the mor- row came he would still put it off. She might have contin- ued to do until his death; only, he had a friend of abo... ...yve on the man’s ankle rang, and answered in his stead; and the word was still straight on. But the man, when his gyve spoke, spat and struck at Jack,... ...s not much in it, as I supposed; but there is something in it after all. Let me be glad of that.” And he rang the bell for service. MORAL. The sticks ... ... sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands un... ...ke raiment drying, and the heart is weary of the wind. But one thing I love, and that is truth; and for one thing will I give my daughter, and that is... ...that stone the seeming goes, and the being shows, and all things besides are worthless. Therefore, lads, if ye would wed my daughter, out foot, and br... ... and bring me the stone of touch, for that is the price of her.” “A word in your ear,” said the younger son to his father. “I think we do very well wi... ...are indeed to be my son, I fear it will go ill with you; for I am bitter poor in goods and bitter ugly in face, and I shall never get me a wife if I l...

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...ee!— I was kneeling at its side, And it leaned its head on me! Crumbling stones and sliding sand Is the road to Heaven now; Icy at my straining kn... ...; Icy at my straining knees Drags the awful under-tow; Soon but stepping-stones of dust Will the road to Heaven be,— Father, Son and Holy Ghost, ... ... your own,— Only the light from common water, Only the grace from simple stone! 13 Edna St. Vincent Millay THE BEAN-ST THE BEAN-ST THE BEAN-ST THE ... ... led a fairy band Over the indulgent land! Ah, for in this dourest, sorest Age man’s eye has looked upon, Death to fauns and death to fays, Still the ... ... from the rotten bough, grey mother of Pieria! Only her shadow once upon a stone I saw,—and, lo, the shadow and the garden, too, were gone. I tell you... ... make a wreath Of my locked hands, that on her quiet breast Shall lie till age has withered them! (Ah, sweetly from the rest I... ... gold Even to the ultimate sifting dust, “Behold, Here walketh passionless age!”—for there expands A curious superstition in these lands, And by its l... ...Shall lie awake and know the gracious flame Gone out forever on the mutual stone; And call to mind that on the day you came I was a child, and you a h...

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... quietly, My heart is stirred and cool As when a wind-moved briar sweeps A stone into a pool But unto thee, when thee I meet, My pulses thicken fast, ... ...ts share their amber light With the surface of the mere – I think the very stones are glad To feel each other near. Once more my whole heart leaps and... ... whate’er you do. Thus we across the modern stage Follow the wise of every age; And, as oaks grow and rivers run Unchanged in the unchanging sun, So t... ...I own these tales of Arabia Smile not, as smiled their flawless originals, Age-old but yet untamed, for ages Pass and the magic is undiminished. Thus,... ...ve, or the Calendars, Blind-eyed and ill-starred royal scions, Charm us in age as they charmed in childhood. Fair ones, beyond all numerability, Beam ... ...ere, Time laughed at the vain chanticleer; And ere the moss had dimmed the stone, Time had defaced that garrison. Now I in turn keep watch and ward In... ...ght a light into my eyes – For notice still the writer cries. In any civil age or nation, The book that is not talked of dies. So that shall be my ter... ...o make the fuel burn And keep the parlour warm, to turn Water to wine, and stones to bread, By her unconquered hero-head. A naked Adam, naked Eve, Alo... ...1 New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) Not now; but though beneath a stone-grey sky November’s russet woodlands toss and wail, Still the white r...

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...p of Spain—long-suffering Philip,’ she said, her eyes still on the shining stones. ‘Faith, what some men will endure at some women’s hands passes beli... ... “I cry your pardon. The heat of these present times ripens child- hood to age more quickly than I can follow. But we are at peace with Spain. Where d... ... charges,’ she whispered straight be- fore her. ‘Oh, enviable and adorable age of youth!’ Her eyes shone through the mask-holes. ‘But I warn you you’l... ...ir Came up to watch us working there. Now there wasn’t a trick in brick or stone That this young man hadn’t seen or known; Nor there wasn’t a tool fro... ...ing of barns and houses he had built. He said he never forgot any stick or stone he had ever handled, or any man, woman, or child he had ever met. jus... ...t five—out o’ the whole contrac’, but my name’s lettered on the foundation stone— Ralph Springett, Builder—and the stone she’s bedded on four foot goo... ...ing man of Masons on Magdalen Tower, because, please you, I dared to carve stone without their leave. They said a stone had slipped from the cornice b... ...things.’ Ah, it’s a great responsibility, you’ll find, when you come to my age. Last year Dad said I was fatiguing myself with my duties, and he actua... ...t.’ Philadelphia coughed and cleared her throat. ‘I’ve a deep voice for my age and size,’ she explained. ‘Con- tralto, you know, but it ought to be st...

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...gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that co... ...Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build ... ... thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the ... ...ich was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 12 Therefore... ...as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called t... ...arah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. 8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast t... ..., and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that pl... ...he gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pil- lows, and set it up for a pillar, and po... ... to my father’s house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that...

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... to seem artificial, there still remained part of a circle of rough unhewn stones, of large dimensions. Seven stood upright; the rest had been dislodg... ...rate near their former site, and others on the side of the hill. One large stone only had found its way to the bottom, and in stopping the course of a... ...ve ruled thine unreasonable passion, thy fa- ther had not been left in his age like the solitary oak that throws out its shattered and unprotected bra... ...t a hundred and fifty years old.” “I will warrant you against dying of old age, however,” said the T emplar, who now recognised his friend of the fore... ...h gold and silver threads, had been employed with all the art of which the age was capable, to represent the sports of hunting and hawking. The bed wa... ...spatch which argued the extremity of the Jew’s fears, since persons at his age are seldom fond of rapid mo- tion, The Palmer, to whom every path and o... ...g his head covered by a rich fur bonnet, adorned with a circle of precious stones, from which his long curled hair escaped and overspread his shoulder... ...is eyes in 73 Sir Walter Scott horror, “a Jewess!—We should deserve to be stoned out of the lists; and I am not yet old enough to be a martyr. Beside... ... shocked De Vipont. The poor Hospitaller was hurled from his saddle like a stone from a sling.” “Boast not of that,” said a Knight of St John, who was...

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... there must certainly be some natural explanation. Ballads 19 And emptied the vessels of sauce, and drank of the kava deep; Till the young lay stupid... ...the single paddle with passionate sweep on sweep, Drove her, the little fitted, forth on the open deep. And fear, there where she sat, froze the woman... ...st ran forth like a lunatic man; And the village panted to see him in the jewels of death again, * “Tikis.” The tiki is an ugly image hewn out of wood... ...ods appointed of yore, Two the nights of his sleeping alone in the place of gore: The drunken slumber of frenzy twice he drank to the lees, On the sac... ...aring noon, dark was Rua’s ravine, Damp and cold was the air, and the face of the cliffs was green. Here, in the rocky pit, accursed already of old, O...

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.............................................................179 THE STATE OF AGE........................................................................... ................................................................ 500 YOUTH IN AGE .......................................................................... ... eastern tale Paced thro’ a marble city pale, And saw in ghastly shapes of stone The sculptured life she breathed alone; Saw, where’er her eye might r... ... latest life beyond recall. THE POETRY OF CHAUCER Grey with all honours of age! but fresh-featured and ruddy As dawn when the drowsy farm-yard has thr... ...riors with golden crowns, Ghostly shapes with marbled frowns Stare thee to stone; Matrons of thy race Pass before thee making moan; 38 Full of solemn... ...is startled night? Proclaim this evil human page Will ever blot the Golden Age That poets dream and saints invite, If it be unredeemed this night? Thi... ...ispering beams, Like Memnon in his mother’s eye, – Aurora! when the statue stone Moaned soft to her pathetic touch, – My soul shall own its parent in ... ...t as tottering as they; While, to the steps of Time, her latest props Fall stone by stone, and in the Sun’s hot ray All that remains stands up in rugg... ... confessionals Sat rub-a-dub-dubbing his marches. XIV Then the silent cold stone warriors frowned, The pictured saints strode forward: A whirlwind swe...

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...was the Sub Warden’s wife, and that Uggug (a hideous fat boy, about the same age as Sylvie, with the expression of a prize pig) was their son. Sylvie ... ...raceful festoon, “that this represents what is perhaps the necessity of this Age—the Active T ourist’s Portable Bath. Y ou may describe it briefly, i... ...ached to the office, until my return, or, failing that, until Bruno comes of age: and that he shall then hand over, to myself or to Bruno as the case ... ...e merest jest, believe me!” I said earnestly. “Why, man, I’m three times her age! But if she’s your choice, then I’m sure she’s all that is good and—”... ...n: Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 59 It would have stirred a heart of stone T o see him wring his hoofs and groan, Because he could not j... ...standing: in fact he led her, in his hurry, across so many little sticks and stones, that it was really a wonder the poor child could keep on her feet... ... reasons for silence—began at once:— “There be three Badgers on a mossy stone, Beside a dark and covered way: Each dreams himself a mon... ...thout her: and, when we reached the road above, with its cart ruts and loose stones—all formidable obstacles for a lame child—I found that I had said ... ...lvie put in, but all in vain. “I slipted down the bank. And I tripted over a stone. And the stone hurted my foot! And I trod on a Bee. And the Bee sti...

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... Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand daies and nights, Till age snow white haires on thee, Thou, when thou retorn’st, wilt tell mee A... ...epe that hid. It were but madnes now t’impart The skill of specular stone, When he which can have learnd the art To cut it, can finde non... ... as happy’as wee, In that the world’s contracted thus; Thine age askes ease, and since thy duties bee To warme the world, that’s do... ...e, If thine owne honour, or my shame, or paine, Thou covet most, at that age thou shalt gaine. Doe thy will then, then subject and degree, And fru... ...ce of this place bee; Make me a mandrake, so I may groane here, Or a stone fountaine weeping out my yeare. Hither with christall vyals, lovers... ...rre, If I were any beast, Some ends, some means; Yea plants, yea stones detest, And love; All, all some properties invest; If I an ordin... ...ome men; And since at such time, miracles are sought, I would have that age by this paper taught What miracles wee harmlesse lovers wrought. ...

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...e of its modest three stories stood higher buildings, with fronts of brown stone, cracked and blistered, cast-iron balconies and cat-haunted grass-pat... ...s importance, she had put on her double-dyed and triple-turned black silk. Age, while be- stowing on this garment a patine worthy of a Renaissance bro... ...urden of the day. It would have been as difficult to guess her approximate age as that of the black silk, for she had the same worn and glossy aspect ... ...ally stopped of its own accord, and they walked along a rutty road, past a stone-cutter’s yard with a high fence tapestried with the- atrical advertis... ...rm and with the other tried to check the acrobatic impulses of the next in age. “My, my,” she simply said as Ann Eliza ended. “Keep still now, Arthur:... ...lingness to lead her to Mrs. Hochmuller, and he was soon trotting past the stone-cutter’s yard with Ann Eliza in his wake. Another turn in the road br... ... rocking-chair, and, kneeling beside her, began to rub her hands. “Y ou’re stone-cold, ain’t you? Just sit still and warm your- self while I run and g... ...king Bunner Sisters. The friendly air of the place made her pluck up cour- age to speak. “Saleslady? Yes, we do want one. Have you any one to recommen...

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...r! Even if I don’t mind ruining my health, I ought at least to remember my age, old idiot that I am! Yes, my old age! It’s no use! I can play the fool... ...How cold it is! The wind blows out of the empty theatre as though out of a stone flue. What a place for ghosts! The shivers are running up and down my... ...[laughs and clasps] Bravo! Encore! Bravo! Where the devil is there any old age in that? I’m not old, that is all nonsense, a torrent of strength rushe... ... a torrent of strength rushes over me; this is life, freshness, youth! Old age and genius can’ t exist together. You seem to be struck dumb, Nikitushk... ...t cry! Where there is art and genius there can never be such things as old age or loneliness or sickness . . . and death itself is half . . . [Weeps] ...

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...ured, under the promptings of transient excitement, a love-adventure in an age when romances are written precisely because they never happen; to have ... ... their sight, Andrea 9 Balzac had not fallen in love with a cousin at the age of eleven, or seduced his mother’s maid by the time he was twelve; he h... ...miled, in a way that betrayed, perhaps, some pride at this speechless hom- age. The Count, too thoroughly fascinated to miss the small- est indication... ...former and an even better composer,” the musician began. “Thus at an early age I had mastered the laws of musical construction in its twofold aspects,... ... of our own home—my father and me. We were ruined by the war. Thus, at the age of ten I entered on the wandering life to which most men have been cond... ... for enjoyment, unable to read or write, using all his defects as stepping-stones, turning every blunder and disas- ter into a triumph? Did not you fe...

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... . . . . . . . . 406 Hymn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Youth and Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 The Reproof and Reply . . . . . ... ...hy terrors lost and ruin’d power deplore! What tho’ through many a groaning age Was felt thy keen suspicious rage, Yet Freedom rous’d by fierce Dis... ...onscious of forensic storms, And Glory’s blood-stain’d palm! And when dark Age shall close Life’s little day, Satiate of sport, and weary of its to... ...anopied by huge roots intertwin’d With wildest texture, blacken’d o’er with age: Round them their mantle green the ivies bind, Beneath whose foliag... ..., What happy and what mournful hours, since last I skimm’d the smooth thin stone along thy breast, Numbering its light leaps! yet so deep imprest ... ... undulates with heat, Where scorching to the unwary traveller’s touch, The stone fence flings its narrow slip of shade; Or, where the worn sides of... ...ghs (Mid which the May-thorn blends its blossoms white) Where broad smooth stones jut out in mossy seats, I rest: — and now have gain’d the topmost... ...nd hark, my Love! The sea-breeze moans Through yon reft house! O’er rolling stones In bold ambitious sweep The onward-surging tides supply The sil... ...turn, poor Child! Home, weary Truant, home! Thee, Chatterton! these unblest stones protect From want, and the bleak freezings of neglect. Too long ...

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.... Let me see—my friends used to set my dish of cream for me o’ nights when Stonehenge was new. Yes, before the Flint Men made the Dewpond under Chanct... ...ame to the Ford he dismounted, took a penny out of his purse, laid it on a stone, tied the old horse to an oak, and called out: “Smith, Smith, here is... ...e got half a dozen,’ said Dan, after a warm, wet hour. ‘I vote we go up to Stone Bay and try Long Pool.’ Una nodded—most of her talk was by nods—and t... ...l here,” said he, tapping his big head, “but it hath no play in this black age. Now Hugh here is a better man than thou art, Richard.” He had made his... ...e has broken into the meadow again. Where did he get through?’ ‘Just below Stone Bay,’ said Dan. ‘He tore down simple flobs of the bank! We noticed it... ...wedges of iron he laid on the bottom of the ship after he had cast out the stones and shingle which till then had been our ballast. Wine, too, he boug... ... took no interest in politics. We had not the gout. There were many of our age like us. We did not find life sad. ‘But while we were enjoying ourselve... ...ng heart with triple armour bound, Beat strongly, for Thy life-blood runs, Age after Age, the Empire round— In us Thy Sons, 87 Rudyard Kipling Who, d... ...gh he were pegging down a rabbit-wire. ‘No. That’s all that’s left me now. Age she must as Age she can. An’ what’s your news since all these years?’ ‘...

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...e for glory— Theirs is quite a different story! Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By thei... ...inter comes— Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books. Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can ... ...eld at the end of the grounds. Of a branch of a plane, with a knife of my own, It was nursie who made it, and nursie alone! The stone, with the white ... ...h leaden eyes, Scarlet coat and pointed gun, To the stars and to the sun. When the grass is ripe like grain, When the scythe is stoned again, When the...

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...tulate you. It’s not every young man who finds, on reaching the marry- ing age, a wife kept in a box of rose-leaves for him. A thousand to one Miss Ve... ... for Anastasia, who was married very young to a vicious Jew, twice her own age. He was supposed to have money, but I am afraid he had less than was no... ...d-to-mouth fashion. I suppose she is some six or eight and thirty years of age. In winter one hears of her in Berlin, giving little suppers to the art... ...nderful young man. I think of it as a sort of Arcadia—a land of the golden age. He’s so delightfully innocent! In this stu- pid old Germany, if a youn... ...still- ness of the place unloosed my tongue; and while she sat on an ivied stone, on the edge of the plunging wall, I stood there and made a speech. S... ...a speech. She listened to me, look- ing at me, breaking off little bits of stone and letting them drop down into the valley. At last she got up and no...

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...t four milk-rivers ran out of her teats, and she fed Ymir; she licked rime-stones that were salt, and the first day there came at even, out of the sto... ... the sea round about it in a ring with- out; of his bones were made rocks; stones and pebbles of his teeth and jaws and the bones that were broken; th... ... beautiful of all 25 The V olsunga Saga the Eddaic poems; a poem that any age or language might count among its most precious possessions. From this ... ...ut off from the land in three ships, all well manned, and have a fair voy- age, and made Gothland late of an evening tide. But that same night came Si... ...evenged that same night. Now Signy and the king had two children of tender age, who played with a golden toy on the floor, and bowled it along the pav... ...hall mete out to them; and when morning came he let make a great barrow of stones and turf; and when it was done, let set a great flat stone midmost i... ...ke Sigmund and Sinfjotli and set them in the barrow, on either side of the stone, for the worse for them he deemed it, that they might hear each the o... ...both fain enow. Now Sinfjotli drave the point of the sword up into the big stone, and drew it hard along, and the sword bit on the stone. With that Si... ...) — “The worm Sigurd slew, Nor ere shall that deed Be worsened by age While the world is alive. But thy brother the King Never durst...

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...wn to the river in the hope of finding a stray frog. They curled round wet stones, and never offered to strike when the nose of a rooting pig dislodge... ...all calls to the Pack; he is judged by the Council alone. Because of his age and his cunning, because of his gripe and his paw, In all that the La... ...een to twenty thousand feet high, looking almost near enough to hit with a stone, though they were fifty or sixty miles away. The pass was crowned wit... ..., who is sometimes wor- shipped against the smallpox. Purun Dass swept the stone floor clean, smiled at the grin- ning statue, made himself a little m... ...way, clean and cleared for fifteen hundred feet, where a little village of stone- walled houses, with roofs of beaten earth, clung to the steep tilt. ... ... the mountain, and cows no big- ger than beetles grazed between the smooth stone circles of the threshing-floors. Looking across the valley, the eye w... ...the kill than he had been. Akela turned from gray to milky white with pure age; his ribs stuck out, and he walked as though he had been made of wood, ... ...n the least hot or dusty, had given him strength and growth far beyond his age. He could swing by one hand from a top branch for half an hour at a tim... ...into the Council, he found only the Four, Baloo, who was nearly blind with age, and the heavy , cold-blooded Kaa coiled around Akela’s empty seat. “Th...

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...et his throne, where Tiberis doth pas. He in the first flowre of my freshest age, Betrothed me vnto the onely haire Of a most mighty king, most rich a... ... rending vp his helmet, would Haue slaine him straight: but when he sees his age, And hoarie head of Archimago old, His hastie hand he doth amazed hol... ...Queene, that shone as Titans ray, In glistring gold, and peerelesse pretious stone: Yet her bright blazing beautie did assay To dim the brightnesse of... ...le, For daring tempt the Queene of heauen to sin; And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reele Against an hill, ne might from labour lin; There thirstie... ... THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE And in the midst thereof one pretious stone Of wondrous worth, and eke of wondrous mights, Shapt like a Ladies ... ...de, and suddeine fall: And when him list the raskall routes appall, Men into stones therewith he could transmew, And stones to dust, and dust to nough... ...ed new. 102 THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE And there beside of marble stone was built An Altare, caru’d with cunning imagery, On which true Chr... ...y it loued make, And giues not rather cause it to forsake? Feare, sicknesse, age, losse, labour, sorrow, strife, Paine, hunger, cold, that makes the h... ...r faire Vna brought this vnacquainted guest. She was a woman in her freshest age, Of wondrous beauty, and of bountie rare, With goodly grace and comel...

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...perceptive thought. More pitiable, like rivers lacking rains, Kissing cold stones, the women shrink for drought. Those faceless discords, out of natur... ...o flower their face shall be, but writhen stem; Their youth a frost, their age the dirge for youth. These miserably disinclined, The lamentably unembr... ...acious, where move ordered ranks, And rise hushed temples built of shapely stone, The work of hands not pledged to grind or slay. They gave our earth ... ...e I had choice to feel The toad beneath a harrow or a heel. —Speak of this Age. —When you it shall discern Bright as you are, to me the Age will turn.... ...own and grovels, grapples not With evil, casts the burden of its lot. This Age climbs earth. —To challenge heaven. —Not less The lower deeps. It laug... ...choes of it wail, For one step upward on the crags you scale. Brave is the Age wherein the word will rust, Which means our soul asleep or body’s lust,... ... Can gravely dread without the craven’s pulse. Long ere the rising of this Age of ours, The knave and fool were stamped as monstrous Powers. Of human ...

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...ars, symbolizing the cardinal virtues, had been visible only in the golden age. 8 Purgatory “Who are ye that counter to the blind stream have fled fr... ...t where I was the white and red cheeks of the beautiful Aurora by too much age were becoming orange. We were still alongside the sea, like folk who ar... ...sit.” At the sound of it each of us turned, and we saw at the left a great stone which neither he nor I before had noticed. Thither we drew; and there... ... appear. The second, of deeper hue than perse, was of a rough and scorched stone, cracked lengthwise and athwart. The third, which above lies massy, s... ...gel of God held both his feet, seated upon the threshold that seemed to me stone of adamant. 12 Up over the three steps my Leader drew me with good w... ...edly there, and disentangle with thy sight that which cometh beneath those stones; now thou canst discern how each is smitten.” O proud Christians, wr... ... possible for a living person to ascend. And if I were not hindered by the stone which tames my proud neck, wherefore I needs must carry my face low, ... ...e bold flight of the ascent is broken by the stairs, which were made in an age when the record and the stave were secure, 16 in like manner, the bank... ...drawing near them. Truly three old men are still there in whom the antique age rebukes the new, and it seems late to them ere God restore them to the ...

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...hem and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock— a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide. Akela, the great gra... ...see if the Panther was angry too, and Bagheera’s eyes were as hard as jade stones. 28 “Thou hast been with the Monkey People—the gray apes—the people... ...ome king had built it long ago on a little hill. You could still trace the stone causeways that led up to the ruined gates where the last splinters of... ... fountains was split, and stained with red and green, and the very cobble- stones in the courtyard where the king’s elephants used to live had been th... ...ooking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits an... ...th funny raised pat- terns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an im- age of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall 52 a real looking g... ...s to crawl inland, and there he met tens of thousands of babies of his own age, and they played together like puppies, went to sleep on the clean sand... ...m when he told them what he had discovered, and a young seal about his own age said, “This is all very well, Kotick, but you can’t come from no one kn... ... twenty years old when he was caught, that makes him nearly seventy—a ripe age for an el- ephant. He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his...

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...d Art are easily outdone By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour What in an age they with incessant toyle And hands innumerable scarce perform Ni... ... he found beyond expression bright, Compar’d with aught on Earth, Medal or Stone; Not all parts like, but all alike informd Which radiant light,... ...ing Iron with fire; If mettal, part seemd Gold, part Silver cleer; 595 If stone, Carbuncle most or Chrysolite, Rubie or Topaz, to the Twelve that... ...te, Rubie or Topaz, to the Twelve that shon In AARONS Brest-plate, and a stone besides Imagind rather oft then elsewhere seen, That stone, or ... ... and Hyacinth with rich inlay Broiderd the ground, more colour’d then with stone Of costliest Emblem: other Creature here Beast, Bird, Insect, o... ...hidd’n veins diggd up (nor hath this Earth Entrails unlike) of Mineral and Stone, Whereof to found thir Engins and thir Balls Of missive ruin; p... ...r Argument Remaines, sufficient of it self to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or Years damp my intended wing 45 Depres... ... be with ease Gatherd, not harshly pluckt, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive 535 Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty,... ...es are heard, but soon In factious opposition, till at last 660 Of middle Age one rising, eminent In wise deport, spake much of Right and Wrong, ...

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...e truth suppressed. But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? O love’s best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told. Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flattered be....

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...of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye 63: Against My Love Shall Be As I Am Now 64: When I Have Seen by Time's Fell Hand Defaced 65: Since Brass Nor Stone Nor Earth Nor Boundless Sea 66: Tired with All These for Restful Death I Cry 67: Ah Wherefore with Infection Should He Live 68: Thus Is His Cheek the Map of Days Outworn 69: Those Parts of Thee That the World's Eye ...

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...­ ther had often told him that every member of the tribe was his child. At the age of five he asked his grandfather about the strange visions he ha... ...hat Seattle could not understand: a future with strange villages made of great stone lodges filled only with the white man. Even the words of the E... ...be some potentially interesting archeological formation. The digs yielded only stones and dust. The late afternoon sun slithered downward through s... ...ection pulsed steady as he kept his eyes focused on the object. Crunching small stone pebbles, he made his way up the parched river bed toward the m... ...d stared into .8 Johnathan Cross the red and orange flames that licked at the stone fireplace. His feelings finally subsided into a kind of self p... ...withdrew a bottle of his favorite red wine, a French Merlot. Georgi sat like a stone statue except for his eyes darting into the deserted street J... ...ore they ar­ rived to serve the Public Trust. This was not a place for the aver­ age Public Servant, who had to settle for lesser accommodations in t... ... buffet lun­ cheon. 1 want it to be an event, one that \vill get national cover­ age. Mr. Matloch wants the Who's Who to be there, you know what 1 me... ...he had been working as a fish­ erman since he was a child. Aaron was big for his age, husky and strong, and looked older than his years. When the tra...

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...d problem—an imbalance in the rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try... ...of the battles over intellectual property, the range wars of the information age. I want to convince you that intellectual property is important, that... ...ty, to ex- plain why it matters, why it is the legal form of the information age. The second goal is to persuade you that our intellectual property po... ...lem alone. Instead, I argue that precisely because we are in the information age, we need a movement—akin to the environmental movement—to preserve th... ...He was about eight years old at the time but already a child of the Internet age. He asked what I was doing and I explained that I was printing out th... ...es Henke, Holly George-Warren, Anthony Decurtis, and Jim Miller, The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll: The Definitive History of the ...

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...yes, and hair like shining flax, unusually tall and strong- limbed for his age; and as he gave his hand to his little bride, and walked with her under... ...ns were still more thrown out by the birth of a little daughter in the old age of the Count. Almost from the hour in which her sex was announced, the ... ...air, and across the kitchen; then snatching at the arm of a boy of his own age whom he met at the door, he gasped out, ‘Come and help me catch Follet,... ... for yourself how to deal in this matter when you shall have attained full age, and may be able to dispose of them by sale, thus freeing yourself from... ...wn a flight of steps leading into a square walled garden, with a couple of stone male and female ma- rine divinities accommodating their fishy extremi... ...the green lawn, and the meeting of these two diameters was at a circu- lar stone basin, presided over by another merman, blowing a conch on the top of... ...thout. The hotel was built round a paved court, adorned with stat- ues and stone vases, with yews and cypresses in them, and a grand flight of steps l... ... with home! But, your Excellency,’ added she, turning to Walsingham, ‘what stones would best please my good sister for the setting of the jewel my son... ... was more tranquilly advancing to a bevy of ladies, who sat perched on the stone steps like great butterflies sun- ning themselves, watching the game,...

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...hem when they alighted, and Mr. and Mrs. Cloke, at the open door of a deep stone-floored kitchen, made them shyly welcome. They lay in an attic beneat... ...t these lovely old things by filling them with hay.” George looked at long stone walls upholding reaches of silvery-oak weather-boarding; buttresses o... ...ak weather-boarding; buttresses of mixed flint and bricks; outside stairs, stone upon arched stone; curves of thatch where grass sprouted; roundels of... ...G G G G GARM—A HOS ARM—A HOS ARM—A HOS ARM—A HOS ARM—A HOST T T T TA A A A AGE GE GE GE GE 0 NE NIGHT, a very long time ago, I drove to an Indian mili... ...should be what the trumpet was to Job’s war-horse. In spite of her immense age (three, years), it rang between the canon-like frames as a pibroch ring... ...ating, and they expected the sound bees to feed them. Curiously enough the age-old instinct of loyalty and devotion towards the Hive made the sound be... ...AND THE FLIES THE BEES AND THE FLIES A FARMER of the Augustan age Perused in Virgil’s golden page, The story of... ... top of a cap. Our shaft-bearings are C.M.C. (Commercial Minerals Company) stones, ground with as much care as the lens of a telescope. They cost L837... ...moke of his pipe ascend untroubled ere his boat dropped, it seemed, like a stone in a well. We had just cleared the Mark Boat and her disorderly neigh...

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...N IN TIME OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 TO BE CARVED ON A STONE AT THOOR BALLYLEE . . . . . . . 190 THE TOWER 193 SAILING TO BYZANTIU... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 YOUTH AND AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 THE NEW FAC... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 QUARREL IN OLD AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 THE RESULTS OF THOU... ...O SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE’S SAKE . . . . . . . . 296 A PRAYER FOR OLD AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 CHURCH AND STATE . . ... ...A MODEL FOR THE LAUREATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 THE OLD STONE CROSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 THE SPIRIT ... ... WANDERINGS OF OISIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE 402 THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE COME round me, little childer; There, don’t fling stones at me Because I mutter as I go; But pity Moll Magee. My man was a po... ...candles, And looks upon the poor. So now, ye little childer, Ye won’t fling stones at me; But gather with your shinin’ looks And pity Moll Magee. THE B... ...SE 27 Scarcely a feather lingered, then you seemed A weasel moving on from stone to stone, And now at last you wear a human shape, A thin grey man hal...

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... When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced .......39 65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, ....................................... ...126 O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power .............70 127 In the old age black was not counted fair, .............70 128 How oft, when thou, ... ...e Calls back the lovely April of her prime: So thou through windows of thine age shall see Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time. But if thou liv... ...ng climb’d the steep up heavenly hill, Resembling strong youth in his middle age, yet mortal looks adore his beauty still, Attending on his golden pil... ...golden pilgrimage; But when from highmost pitch, with weary car, Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day, The eyes, ‘fore duteous, now converted are ... ...asts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet... ...werful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear’d with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overt... ...t choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. 65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o’er sways their p... ...do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit hea...

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...he phrase is, for ex pensive renovations. I make use here of the figure of age and infirmity, but in point of fact I had rather viewed the reappearance... ...ts massive and lumpish, in silver and gold, in the forms to which precious stones contribute, or in leather, steel, brass, applied to a hundred uses a... ...t this had made him say. “Don’t talk about me—it’s you who are not of this age. You’re a creature of a braver and finer one, and the cinquecento, at it... ...s futile, and of his absolute acceptance of the developments of the coming age—to redress the balance of his being so differently considered. The mome... ...e sufficiently passes for it. But it’s no more like yours than the tortuous stone staircase—half ruined into the bargain!—in some castle of our quattro... ...an actress—these things, with an added amplitude of person on which middle age had set its seal, seemed to present her insistently as a daugh ter of ... ...f renewal, of which the lively expression, awaking the echoes of the great stone paved, oak panelled, galleried hall that was not the least interestin... ... eyes were closed. “I go but by one thing.” Her hand was on the sun warmed stone; so that, turned as they were away from the house, he put his own upo... ...dean?” “The consciousness”—she had never lost her promptness—“of having no stones to throw at any one else’s windows. She has enough to do to guard he...