David Given Schwarm

       “The herded wolves, bold only to pursue;       The obscene ravens, clamorous o’er the dead;       The vultures to the conqueror’s banner true       Who feed where Desolation first has fed,       And whose wings rain contagion; how they fled,       When, like Apollo, from his golden bow       The Pythian of the age one arrow sped       And smil’d! The…

       “O gentle child, beautiful as thou wert,       Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men       Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart       Dare the unpastur’d dragon in his den?       Defenceless as thou wert, oh, where was then       Wisdom the mirror’d shield, or scorn the spear?       Or hadst thou waited the full…

       “Stay yet awhile! speak to me once again;       Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may live;       And in my heartless breast and burning brain       That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive,       With food of saddest memory kept alive,       Now thou art dead, as if it were a part       Of thee,…

Plan for the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

       In the death-chamber for a moment Death,       Sham’d by the presence of that living Might,       Blush’d to annihilation, and the breath       Revisited those lips, and Life’s pale light       Flash’d through those limbs, so late her dear delight.       “Leave me not wild and drear and comfortless,       As silent lightning leaves the starless night!       Leave me…

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende My rating: 5 of 5 stars man–amazing read. not really the book for me, but still by the end this book has completely transformed and hooked you. A political, brutal, feminist, shocking look at south america over time–that honestly reads as fiction, which is nice, but is…

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.