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A bitterness crept into her face

A blazing blue sky poured down torrents of light

A book to beguile the tedious hours

A brave but turbulent aristocracy

A broad, complacent, admiring imbecility breathed from his nose and lips

A burlesque feint of evading a blow

A callous and conscienceless brute

A calm and premeditated prudence

A calmness settled on his spirit

A campaign of unbridled ferocity

A carefully appraising eye

A ceaselessly eeting sky



A certain implication of admiring condence

A charming air of vigor and vitality

A childish belief in his own impeccability

A cold, hard, frosty penuriousness was his prevalent characteristic

A compassion perfectly angelic

A constant stream of rhythmic memories

A covertly triumphant voice

A creature of the most delicate and rapid responses

A crop of disappointments

A cunning intellect patiently diverting every circumstance to its design

A curious and inexplicable uneasiness

A curious vexation fretted her

A daily avalanche of vituperation



A dandied, pretty-boy-looking sort of gure

A dark and relentless fate

A day monotonous and colorless

A dazzling completeness of beauty

A deep and brooding resentment

A delicious throng of sensations

A deliciously tantalizing sense

A detached segment of life

A dire monotony of bookish idiom

A disheveled and distraught gure

A face singularly acute and intelligent

A faint accent of reproach

A faint sense of compunction moved her



A faint, transient, wistful smile lightened her brooding face

A faint tremor of amusement was on his lips

A faintly quizzical look came into his incisive stare

A fawn-colored sea streaked here and there with tints of deepest orange

A fever of enthusiasm

A few tears came to soften her seared vision

A ery exclamation of wrath and disdain

A gure full of decision and dignity

A rm and balanced manhood

A rst faint trace of irritation

A tful boy full of dreams and hopes

A ame of scarlet crept in a swift diagonal across his cheeks

A eeting and furtive air of triumph



A ood of pride rose in him

A foreboding of some destined change

A fortuitous series of happy thoughts

A frigid touch of the hand

A fugitive intangible charm

A gay exuberance of ambition

A generation of men lavishly endowed with genius

A gentle sarcasm rued her anger

A ghastly whiteness overspread the cheek

A glance of extraordinary meaning

A glassy expression of inattention

A glassy stare of deprecating horror

A glittering infectious smile



A gloom overcame him

A golden haze of pensive light

A golden summer of marvelous fertility

A graceful readiness and vigor

A grave man of pretending exterior

A great pang gripped her heart

A great process of searching and shifting

A great sickness of heart smote him

A great soul smitten and scourged, but still invested with the dignity of immortality

A grim and shuddering fascination

A gush of entrancing melody

A gusty breeze blew her hair about unheeded

A half-breathless murmur of amazement and incredulity



A half-uneasy, half-laughing compunction

A harassing anxiety of sorrow

A harvest of barren regrets

A haunting and horrible sense of insecurity

A heavy oppression seemed to brood upon the air

A helpless anger simmered in him

A hint of death in the icy breath of the gale

A hot and virulent skirmish

A hot uprush of hatred and loathing

A kind of ine!able splendor crowns the day

A lapse from the well-ordered decencies of civilization

A large, rich, copious human endowment

A late star lingered, remotely burning



A laugh of "ovial signicance

A light of unwonted pleasure in her eyes #unwonted $ unusual%

A little "aded by gastronomical exertions

A lukewarm and selsh love

A man of imperious will #imperious $ arrogantly domineering%

A man of matchless modesty and renement

A manner bright with interest and interrogation

A manner nervously anxious to please

A melancholy monotone beat on one&s heart

A mere exhibition of fussy di!useness

A mere gment of a poet&s fancy

A mien and aspect singularly ma"estic

A mild and deprecating air



A mind singularly practical and sagacious

A mouth of inexible decision

A murmur of complacency

A mystery everlastingly impenetrable

A nameless sadness which is always born of moonlight

A new and overmastering impulse

A new doubt assailed her

A new marvel of the sky

A new trouble was dawning on his thickening mental horizon

A nimble-witted opponent

A painful thought was ooding his mind

A pang of "ealousy not unmingled with scorn

A patience worthy of admiration



A perfect carnival of fun

A perfect crime of clumsiness

A piteous aspect of woe

A portent full of possible danger

A potion to be delicately supped at leisure

A powerful agitation oppressed him

A prevailing sentiment of uneasy discontent

A prey to listless uneasiness

A profound and absorbing interest

A profound and eager hopefulness

A profound and rather irritating egotist by nature

A prop for my faint heart

A propitious sky, marbled with pearly white



A protest wavered on her lip

A puissant and brilliant family

A queer, uncomfortable perplexity began to invade her

A quick ame leaped in his eyes

A quick shiver rued the brooding stillness of the water

A quiver of resistance ran through her

A remarkable fusion of morality and art

A random gleam of light

A rare and dazzling order of beauty

A rhythmical torrent of eloquent prophecy

A river of shame swept over him

A sad inquiry seemed to dwell in her gaze

A satised sense of completeness



A secret sweeter than the sea or sky can whisper

A sensation of golden sweetness and delight

A sense of desolation and disillusionment overwhelmed me

A sense of innite peace brooded over the place

A sense of meditative content

A sense of repression was upon her

A sentiment of distrust in its worth had crept into her thoughts

A sheaf of letters

A shimmer of golden sun shaking through the trees

A shiver of apprehension crisped her skin

A shuing compromise between deance and prostration

A sigh of large contentment

A sight for the angels to weep over



A skepticism which prompted rebellion

A slight movement of incredulous dissent

A smile full of subtle charm

A smile of exquisite urbanity

A soft insidious plea

A soft intonation of profound sorrow

A soft suspicion of ulterior motives

A solemn glee possessed my mind

A solemn gray expanse that lost itself far away in the gray of the sea

A solemn utterance of destiny

A somber and breathless calm hung over the deepening eve

A somewhat melancholy indolence

A somewhat sharp and incisive voice



A sonorous voice bade me enter

A soothing and quieting touch was gently laid upon her soul

A sort of eager, almost appealing amiability

A sort of stolid despairing acquiescence

A sort of stunned incredulity

A soundless breeze that was little more than a whisper

A spacious sense of the amplitude of life&s possibilities

A staccato cough interrupted the ow of speech

A state of sullen self-absorption

A steady babble of talk and laughter

A step was at her heels

A stiing sensation of pain and suspense

A stinging wind swept the woods



A strange compound of contradictory elements

A stream of easy talk

A strong convulsion shook the vague indenite form

A strong susceptibility to the ridiculous

A subtle emphasis of scorn

A sudden and stinging delight

A sudden gleam of insight

A sudden uncontrollable outburst of feeling

A super-abundance of boisterous animal spirits

A supercilious scorn and pity

A super-renement of taste

A swaggering air of braggadocio

A sweet bewilderment of tremulous apprehension



A sweet, quiet, sacred, stately seclusion

A swift knowledge came to her

A swift unformulated fear

A swiftly unrolling panorama of dreams

A tangle of ugly words

A thousand evanescent memories of happy days

A thousand unutterable fears bore irresistible despotism over her thoughts

A time of disillusion followed

A tiny stream meandering amiably

A tone of arduous admiration

A torn and tumultuous sky

A total impression ine!able and indescribable

A tragic futility



A treacherous throb of her voice

A true similitude of what befalls many men and women

A tumult of vehement feeling

A tumultuous rush of sensations

A twinge of embarrassment

A vague and wistful melancholy

A vast sweet silence crept through the trees

A veritable spring-cleaning of the soul

A very practised and somewhat fastidious critic

A violent and mendacious tongue

A vivid and arresting presentation

A waking dream overshadowed her

A weird world of morbid horrors



A well-bred mixture of boldness and courtesy

A wild vivacity was in her face and manner

A wile of the devil&s

A wind strayed through the gardens

A withering sensation of ine!able boredom

A wordless farewell

Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting

Absorbed in a stream of thoughts and reminiscences

Absorbed in the scent and murmur of the night

Accidents which perpetually deect our vagrant attention

Across the gulf of years

Administering a little deft though veiled castigation

A!ected an ironic incredulity



A!ecting a tone of gayety

After a rst moment of reluctance

After an eternity of resolutions, doubts, and indecisions

Aghast at his own helplessness

Agitated and enthralled by day-dreams

Agitated with violent and contending emotions

Alien paths and irrelevant "unketings

All embrowned and mossed with age

All her gift of serene immobility brought into play

All hope of discreet reticence was ripped to shreds

All the lesser lights paled into insignicance

All the magic of youth and "oy of life was there

All the place is peopled with sweet airs



All the sky was mother-of-pearl and tender

All the unknown of the night and of the universe was pressing upon him

All the world was ooded with a soft golden light

All was a vague "umble of chaotic impressions

All was incomprehensible

All was instinctive and spontaneous

Aloof from the motley throng

Ambition shivered into fragments

Amid distress and humiliation

Amid the direful calamities of the time

An acute note of distress in her voice

An agreeably grave vacuity

An air half quizzical and half deferential



An air of a!ected civility

An air of being meticulously explicit

An air of inimitable, scrutinizing, superb impertinence

An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all

An air of uncanny familiarity

An air which was distinctly critical

An almost pathetic appearance of ephemeral fragility

An almost riotous prodigality of energy

An answering glow of gratitude

An antagonist worth her steel

An artful stroke of policy

An assumption of hostile intent

An assurance of good-nature that forestalled hostility



An atmosphere of extraordinary languor

An atmosphere thick with attery and toadyism

An attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence

An audacious challenge of ridicule

An avidity that bespoke at once the restlessness and the genius of her mind

An awe crept over me

An eager and thirsty ear

An easy prey to the powers of folly

An e!usive air of welcome

An equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism

An erect, martial, ma"estic, and imposing personage

An eternity of silence oppressed him

An expression of mildly humorous surprise



An expression of rare and inexplicable personal energy

An exquisite perception of things beautiful and rare

An iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart

An ignoring eye

An impenetrable screen of foliage

An impersonal and slightly ironic interest

An impervious beckoning motion

An inarticulate echo of his longing

An increased gentleness of aspect

An incursion of the loud, the vulgar and meretricious

An inexplicable and uselessly cruel caprice of fate

An inexpressible fervor of serenity

An ingratiating, awkward and, wistful grace



An inspired ray was in his eyes

An instant she stared unbelievingly

An intense and insatiable hunger for light and truth

An intense travail of mind

An obscure thrill of alarm

An odd little air of penitent self-depreciation

An open wit and recklessness of bearing

An oppressive sense of strange sweet odor

An optimistic after-dinner mood

An overburdening sense of the inexpressible

An uncomfortable premonition of fear

An unfailing sweetness and unerring perception

An unpleasant and heavy sensation sat at his heart



An unredeemed dreariness of thought

An unsuspected moral obtuseness

An utter depression of soul

And day peers forth with her blank eyes

And what is all this pother about'

Animated by noble pride

Anticipation painted the world in rose

Appalled in speechless disgust

Appealing to the urgent temper of youth

Apprehensive solicitude about the future

Ardent words of admiration

Armed all over with subtle antagonisms

Artless and unquestioning devotion



As if smitten by a sudden spasm

As the long train sweeps away into the golden distance

August and imperial names in the kingdom of thought

Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence

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(andied about from mouth to mouth

(arricade the road to truth

(artering the higher aspirations of life

(eaming with pleasurable anticipation

(efore was the open malignant sea

(eguiled the weary soul of man

(eneath the cold glare of the desolate night

(ent on the lofty ends of her destiny



(eset by agreeable hallucinations

(eset with smiling hills

(eside himself in an ecstasy of pleasure

(etokening an impulsive character

(eyond the farthest edge of night

(irds were uting in the tulip-trees

(iting sentences ew about

(lack inky night

(lithe with the bliss of the morning

(lown about by every wind of doctrine

(ookish precision and professional peculiarity

(orne from lip to lip

(orne onward by slow-footed time



(orne with a faculty of willing compromise

(owed with a certain frigid and deferential surprise

(roke in a stupendous roar upon the shuddering air

(rowsing at will on all the uplands of knowledge and thought

(u!eted by all the winds of passion

(uried hopes rose from their sepulchers

(uried in the quicksands of ignorance

(ut none the less peremptorily

(y a curious irony of fate

(y a happy turn of thinking

(y virtue of his impassioned curiosity

)

)arried the holiday in his eye



)hafed at the restraints imposed on him

)heeks furrowed by strong purpose and feeling

)hildlike contour of the body

)leansed of pre"udice and self-interest

)loaked in prim pretense

)lothed with the witchery of ction

)lutch at the very heart of the usurping mediocrity

)old gaze of curiosity

)ollapse into a dreary and hysterical depression

)omment of rare and delightful avor

)on"uring up scenes of incredible beauty and terror

)onscious of unchallenged supremacy

)onstant indulgence of wily stratagem and ambitious craft



)ontemptuously indi!erent to the tyranny of public opinion

)overed with vegetation in wild luxuriance

)risp sparkle of the sea

)rystallize about a common nucleus

)ultivated with a commensurate zeal

)urrent play of light gossip

)urtains of opaque rain

*

*allying in maudlin regret over the past

*ark with unutterable sorrows

*arkness oozed out from between the trees

*awn had broken

*ay stood distinct in the sky



*ays of vague and fantastic melancholy

*ays that are brief and shadowed

*eep shame and rankling remorse

*ecient in a!ectionate or tender impulses

*elicately emerging stars

*elicious throng of sensations

*espite her pretty insolence

*ignity and sweet patience were in her look

*im opalescence of the moon

*imly foreshadowed on the horizon

*immed by the cold touch of un"ust suspicion

*isgured by passages of solemn and pompous monotony+

*isguised itself as chill critical impartiality



*ismal march of death

*istinguished by hereditary rank or social position

*istract and beguile the soul

*istressing in their fatuous ugliness

*iverted into alien channels

*iverting her eyes, she pondered

*ogs the footsteps

*oled out in miserly measure

*oubt tortured him

*oubts beset her lonely and daring soul

*own the steep of disenchantment

*reams and visions were surpassed

*reams that fade and die in the dim west



*rear twilight of realities

*rift along the stream of fancy

*rowned in the deep reticence of the sea

*rowsiness coiled insidiously about him

*ull black eyes under their precipice of brows

arth danced under a heat haze

asily moved to gaiety and pleasure

ither way her fate was cruel

mbrace with ardor the prospect of serene leisure

ndearing sweetness and manner

ndeavoring to smile away his chagrin

ndlessly shifting moods



ndowed with all those faculties that can make the world a garden of enchantment

ndowed with life and emphasis

nduring with smiling composure the near presence of people who are distasteful

n"oyed with astonishing unscrupulousness

nticed irresistibly by the freedom of an open horizon

ssay a ight of folly

vanescent shades of feeling

vents took an unexpected sinister turn

very curve of her features seemed to express a ne arrogant acrimony and harsh

truculence

verywhere the fragrance of a bountiful earth

xasperated by what seemed a wilful pretense of ignorance

xhibits itself in fastidious crotchets

xpectation darkened into anxiety



xperience and instinct warred within her

xquisite graciousness of manner

xquisitely stung by the thought

amiliar and endearing intimacy

atally and indissolubly united

athomless depths of su!ering

ear held him in a vice

eeding his scholarly curiosity

eeling humiliated by the avowal

elicitousness in the choice and exquisiteness in the collocation of words

ettered by poverty and toil

everish tide of life



ine precision of intent

itful tumults of noble passion

leeting touches of something alien and intrusive

loating in the clouds of reverie

luctuations of prosperity and adversity

lushed with a su!usion that crimsoned her whole countenance

orebodings possessed her

oreshadowing summer&s end

orever echo in the heart

orever sings itself in memory

ormless verbosity and a passionate rhetoric

ragments of most touching melody

ree from rigid or traditional fetters



reedom and integrity of soul

reighted with strange, vague longings

rosty thraldom of winter

ugitive felicities of thought and sensation

ull of dreams and renements and intense abstractions

ull of ma"estic tenderness

.

.athering all her scattered impulses into a passionate act of courage

.aze dimly through a maze of traditions

.enerosity pushed to prudence

.leams of sunlight, bewildered like ourselves, struggled, surprised, through the mist

and disappeared

.lowing with haste and happiness

.o straight, as if by magic, to the inner meaning



.oaded on by his sense of strange importance

.raceful length of limb and fall of shoulders

.reat shuddering seized on her

.reen hills pile themselves upon each other&s shoulders

.rim and sullen after the ush of the morning

.uilty of girlish sentimentality

/

/alf choked by a rising paroxysm of rage

/alf-su!ocated by his triumph

/ardened into convictions and resolves

/aughtiness and arrogance were largely attributed to him

/aunt the recesses of the memory

/aunted with a chill and unearthly foreboding



/e accosted me with trepidation

/e adroitly shifted his ground

/e airily lampooned their most cherished pre"udices

/e bowed submission

/e braced himself to the exquisite burden of life

/e condescended to intimate speech with her

/e conversed with a colorless uency

/e could detect the hollow ring of fundamental nothingness

/e could do absolutely naught

/e drank of the spirit of the universe

/e drew near to a desperate resolve

/e evinced his displeasure by a contemptuous sneer or a grim scowl

/e felt an unaccountable loathing



/e felt the ironic rebound of her words

/e ung di0dence to the winds

/e ushed crimson

/e found the silence intolerably irksome

/e frowned perplexedly

/e gave her a baed stare

/e gave himself to a sudden day-dream

/e gave his ear to this demon of false glory

/e grew wanton with success

/e had acted with chivalrous delicacy of honor

/e had the eye of an eagle in his trade

/e had the gift of deep, dark silences

/e held his breath in admiring silence



/e laughed away my protestations

/e lent no countenance to the insensate prattle

/e listened greedily and gazed intent

/e made a loathsome ob"ect

/e made the politest of monosyllabic replies

/e murmured a civil re"oinder

/e murmured a vague acceptance

/e mused a little while in grave thought

/e never wears an argument to tatters

/e only smiled with fatuous superiority

/e paused, stunned and comprehending

/e perceived the iron hand within the velvet glove

/e raised a silencing hand



/e ruled autocratically

/e sacriced the vulgar prizes of life

/e sat on thorns

/e set his imagination adrift

/e shambled away with speed

/e sighed deeply, from a kind of mental depletion

/e smote her quickening sensibilities

/e submitted in brooding silence

/e suppressed every sign of surprise

/e surrendered himself to gloomy thought

/e threaded a labyrinth of obscure streets

/e threw a ton&s weight of resolve upon his muscles

/e threw out phrases of ill-humor



/e threw round a measuring eye

/e treads the primrose path of dalliance

/e used an unguarded ad"ective

/e was a tall, dark, saturnine youth, sparing of speech

/e was aware of emotion

/e was born to a lively and intelligent patriotism

/e was dimly mistrustful of it

/e was discreetly silent

/e was empty of thought

/e was entangled in a paradox

/e was giving his youth away by handfuls

/e was haunted and begirt by presences

/e was measured and urbane



/e was most profoundly skeptical

/e was nothing if not grandiloquent

/e was quaking on the precipice of a bad bilious attack

/e was utterly detached from life

/e went hot and cold

/e would fall into the blackest melancholies

/e writhed in the grip of a denite apprehension

/e writhed with impotent humiliation

/er blank gaze chilled you

/er bright eyes were triumphant

/er eyes danced with malice

/er eyes dilated with pain and fear

/er eyes were full of wondering interest



/er eyes were limpid and her beauty was softened by an air of indolence and

languor

/er face sti!ened anew into a gray obstinacy

/er face was lit up by a glow of inspiration and resolve

/er haughty step waxed timorous and vigilant

/er head throbbed dangerously

/er heart appeared to abdicate its duties

/er heart uttered with a vague terror

/er heart pounded in her throat

/er heart was full of speechless sorrow

/er hurrying thoughts clamored for utterance

/er imagination recoiled

/er interest agged

/er life had dwarfed her ambitions



/er limbs ran to marble

/er lips hardened

/er lips parted in a keen expectancy

/er mind was a store-house of innocuous anecdote

/er mind was beaten to the ground by the catastrophe

/er mood was unaccountably chilled

/er musings took a sudden and arbitrary twist

/er scarlet lip curled cruelly

/er smile was faintly depreciatory

/er smile was linked with a sigh

/er solicitude thrilled him

/er stare dissolved

/er step seemed to pity the grass it prest



/er strength was scattered in ts of agitation

/er stumbling ignorance which sought the road of wisdom

/er thoughts outstripped her erring feet

/er tone was gathering remonstrance

/er tongue on the sub"ect was sharpness itself

/er tongue stumbled and was silent

/er voice had the coaxing inections of a child

/er voice trailed o! vaguely

/er voice was full of temper, hard-held

/er voice, with a tentative question in it, rested in air

/er wariness seemed put to rout

/is accents breathed profound relief

/is agitation increased



/is brow grew knit and gloomy

/is brow was in his hand

/is conscience leapt to the light

/is constraint was excruciating

/is curiosity is quenched

/is dignity counseled him to be silent

/is ears sang with the vibrating intensity of his secret existence

/is eyes had a twinkle of reminiscent pleasantry

/is eyes literally blazed with savage re

/is eyes shone with the pure re of a great purpose

/is eyes stared unseeingly

/is face caught the full strength of the rising wind

/is face dismissed its shadow



/is face fell abruptly into stern lines

/is face lit with a re of decision

/is face showed a pleased bewilderment

/is face torn with conict

/is face was gravely authoritative

/is gaze faltered and fell

/is gaze searched her face

/is gaze seemed full of unconquerable hopefulness

/is hand supported his chin

/is hands were small and prehensible #prehensible $ capable of being seized%

/is heart asserted itself again, thunderously beating

/is heart rebuked him

/is heart was full of enterprise



/is impatient scorn expired

/is last illusions crumbled

/is lips loosened in a furtively exultant smile

/is lips seemed to be permanently parted in a good-humored smile

/is mind echoed with words

/is mind leaped gladly to meet new issues and fresh tides of thought

/is mind was dazed and wandering in a mist of memories

/is mood yielded

/is mouth quivered with pleasure

/is passions vented themselves with sneers

/is pulses leaped anew

/is reputation had withered

/is sensibilities were o!ended



/is shrewd gaze xed appraisingly upon her

/is soul full of re and eagle-winged

/is soul was compressed into a single agony of prayer

/is soul was wrung with a sudden wild homesickness

/is speech faltered

/is swift and caustic satire

/is temper was dark and explosive

/is thoughts galloped

/is thoughts were in clamoring confusion

/is tone assumed a certain asperity

/is torpid ideas awoke again

/is troubled spirit shifted its load

/is vagrant thoughts were in full career



/is voice insensibly grew inquisitorial

/is voice was thick with resentment and futile protest

/is whole face was lighted with a erce enthusiasm

/is whole frame seemed collapsed and shrinking

/is whole tone was ippant and bumptious

/is words trailed o! brokenly

/is youthful zeal was contagious

/ope was far and dim

/ow sweet and reasonable the pale shadows of those who smile from some dim

corner of our memories

/umiliating paltriness of revenge

1

1 capitulated by inadvertence

1 cut my reections adrift



1 felt a qualm of apprehension

1 su!ered agonies of shyness

1 took the good day from the hands of .od as a perfect gift

1 was in a somber mood

1 was overshadowed by a deep boding

1 was piqued

1 yielded to the ingratiating mood of the day

1ll-bred insolence was his only weapon

1ll-dissimulated ts of ambition

1mbued with a vernal freshness

1mmense and careless prodigality

1mmense ob"ects which dwarf us

1mmersed in secret schemes



1mmured in a trivial round of duty

1mpassioned and earnest language

1mpatient and authoritative tones

1mpervious to the lessons of experience

1mplying an immense melancholy

1mprisoned within an enchanted circle

1n a deprecating tone of apology

1n a ash of revelation

1n a gale of teasing merriment

1n a misery of annoyance and mortication

1n a musing ecstasy of contemplation

1n a sky stained with purple, the moon slowly rose

1n a spirit of indulgent irony



1n a strain of exaggerated gallantry

1n a tone of after-dinner perfunctoriness

1n a tone of musing surprise

1n a tumult of self-approval and towering exultation

1n a vague and fragmentary way

1n a wise, superior, slightly scornful manner

1n accents of menace and wrath

1n its whole unwieldy compass

1n moments of swift and momentous decision

1n quest of something to amuse

1n requital for various acts of rudeness

1n the air was the tang of spring

1n the dusky path of a dream



1n the face of smarting disillusions

1n the ush and heyday of youth and gaiety and loveliness

1n the heyday of friendship

1n the mild and mellow maturity of age

1n the perpetual presence of everlasting verities

1n this breathless chase of pleasure

1n this chastened mood 1 left him

1ncapable of initiative or boldness

1nconceivable perversion of reasoning

1ndolently handsome eyes

1ndulge in pleasing discursiveness

1ne!able sensation of irritability

1nfantile insensibility to the solemnity of his bereavement



1nfantine simplicity and lavish waste

1nnumerable starlings clove the air

1nsensible to its subtle inuence

1nspired by the immortal ame of youth

1ntangible and indescribable essence

1ntense love of excitement and adventure

1ntimations of unpenetrated mysteries

1nto her eyes had come a hostile challenge

1nto the purple sea the orange hues of heaven sunk silently

1nto the very vestibule of death

1nvoluntarily she sighed

1nvoluntary awkwardness and reserve

1nvolved in a labyrinth of perplexities



1t came to him with a stab of enlightenment

1t elicited a remarkably clear and coherent statement

1t is a ight beyond the reach of human magnanimity

1t is a thing innitely subtle

1t is not every wind that can blow you from your anchorage

1t lends no dazzling tints to fancy

1t moved me to a strange exhilaration

1t parted to a liquid horizon and showed the gray rim of the sea

1t proved a bitter disillusion

1t seemed intolerably tragic

1t seemed to exhale a silent and calm authority

1t was a breathless night of suspense

1t was a desolating vision



1t was a night of little ease to his toiling mind

1t was a night of stupefying surprises

1t was all innitely soft and refreshing to the eye

1t was an evening of great silences and spaces, wholly tranquil

1t was sheer, exuberant, instinctive, unreasoning, careless "oy

1t was the ecstasy and festival of summer

1t was torture of the most exquisite kind

2

2ealousies and animosities that pricked their sluggish blood to tingling

2oy rioted in his large dark eyes

2udging without waiting to ponder over bulky tomes

3

3ind of unscrupulous contempt for gravity



3iss-provoking lips

4

4aden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle

4anguage of excessive attery and adulation

4apped in soft music of adulation

4apse into pathos and absurdity

4arge, dark, luminous eyes that behold everything about them

4atent vein of whimsical humor

4ead to the strangest aberrations

4eaping from lambent ame into eager and passionate re

4eave to the imagination the endless vista of possibilities

4ife owed in its accustomed stream

4ights and shadows of reviving memory crossed her face



4ionized by fashionable society

4ong intertangled lines of silver streamlets

4ost in a delirious wonder

4ost in irritable reection

4ove hovered in her gaze

4udicrous attempts of clumsy playfulness and tawdry eloquence

4uke-warm assurance of continued love

4ulled by dreamy musings

4uminous with great thoughts

5

5agnanimous indi!erence to meticulous niceties

5aking the ear greedy to remark o!ense

5arching down to posterity with divine honors



5arked out for some strange and preternatural doom

5awkishly e!eminate sentiment

5emories plucked from wood and eld

5emory was busy at his heart

5erged in a sentiment of unutterable sadness and compassion

5icroscopic minuteness of eye

5isgivings of grave kinds

5ockery crept into her tone

5olded by the austere hand of adversity

5oments of utter idleness and insipidity

5oods of malicious reaction and vindictive recoil

5orn, in yellow and white, came broadening out of the mountains

5umble only "argon of dotage



5y body is too frail for its moods

6

6ature seemed to revel in unwonted contrasts

6ew ambitions pressed upon his fancy

6ew dreams began to take wing in his imagination

6ight after night the skies were wine-blue and bubbling with stars

6ight passes lightly in the open world, with its stars and dews and perfumes

6ights of fathomless blackness

6o mark of trick or artice

6oble and sublime patience

6ursed by brooding thought

7

7bsessed with the modishness of the hour



7ccasional ashes of tenderness and love

7ddly disappointing and ckle

7ne gracious fact emerges here

7ne long torture of soul

7ne of the golden twilights which transgure the world

7ppressed and disheartened by an all-pervading desolation

7ppressed with a confused sense of cumbrous material

7utweighing years of sorrow and bitterness

7ver and over the paroxysms of grief and longing submerged her

7verhung and overspread with ivy

7vershadowed by a vague depression

8

8ale and vague desolation



8allor of reected glories

8alpitating with rage and wounded sensibility

8anting after distinction

8eace brooded over all

8elted with an interminable torrent of words

8enetrate beneath the surface to the core

8eopled the night with thoughts

8erpetual gloom and seclusion of life

8ertinent to the thread of the discussion

8ervasive silence which wraps us in a mantle of content

8iles of golden clouds "ust peering above the horizon

8latitudinous and pompously sentimental

8laudits of the unlettered mob



8leasant and ower-strewn vistas of airy fancy

8ledged with enthusiastic fervor

8lumbing the depth of my own fears

8oignant doubts and misgivings

8ower of intellectual metamorphosis

8ower to assuage the thirst of the soul

8recipitated into mysterious depths of nothingness

8reening its wings for a skyward ight

8ressing cares absorbed him

8ride working busily within her

8roclaimed with "oyous deance

8rodigal of discriminating epithets

8rodigious boldness and energy of intellect



8roducts of dreaming indolence

8rofound and chilling solitude of the spot

8roof of his imperturbability and indi!erence

8rovocative of bitter hostility

8ulling the strings of many enterprises

8urge the soul of nonsense

9

9uickened and enriched by new contacts with life and truth

9uivering with restrained grief

:

:adiant with the beautiful glamor of youth

:ansack the vocabulary

:ed tape of o0cialdom



:edolent of the night lamp

:eecting the solemn and unfathomable stars

:egarded with an exulting pride

:ehabilitated and restored to dignity

:emorselessly swept into oblivion

:esounding generalities and conventional rhetoric

:espect forbade downright contradiction

:estless and sore and haughty feelings were busy within

:etort leaped to his lips

:igid adherence to conventionalities

:udely disconcerting in her behavior

:udely reminded of life&s serious issues

;



;acriced to a futile sort of treadmill

;adness prevailed among her moods

;corched with the lightning of momentary indignation

;corning such paltry devices

;cotched but not slain

;crupulous morality of conduct

;eem to swim in a sort of blurred mist before the eyes

;eething with suppressed wrath

;eize on greedily

;ensuous en"oyment of the outward show of life

;erenity beamed from his look

;erenity of paralysis and death

;eriousness lurked in the depths of her eyes



;erved to recruit his own "aded ideas

;et anew in some fresh and appealing form

;etting all the sane traditions at deance

;hadowy vistas of sylvan beauty

;he a!ected disdain

;he assented in precisely the right terms

;he bandies ad"ectives with the best

;he challenged his dissent

;he cherished no petty resentments

;he curled her fastidious lip

;he curled her lip with deant scorn

;he did her best to mask her agitation

;he disarmed anger and softened asperity



;he disclaimed fatigue

;he fell into a dreamy silence

;he fell into abstracted reverie

;he felt herself carried o! her feet by the rush of incoherent impressions

;he ushed an agitated pink

;he forced a faint quivering smile

;he frowned incomprehension

;he had an air of restrained fury

;he had an undercurrent of acidity

;he hugged the thought of her own unknown and unapplauded integrity

;he lingered a few leisurely seconds

;he nodded mutely

;he nourished a dream of ambition



;he permitted herself a delicate little smile

;he poured out on him the full opulence of a proud recognition

;he questioned inimically

;he recaptured herself with di0culty

;he regarded him stonily out of int-blue eyes

;he sat eyeing him with frosty calm

;he seemed the embodiment of dauntless resolution

;he seemed wrapped in a veil of lassitude

;he shook hands grudgingly

;he softened her frown to a quivering smile

;he spoke with hurried eagerness

;he spoke with sweet severity

;he stilled and trampled on the inward protest



;he stood her ground with the most perfect dignity

;he strangled a erce tide of feeling that welled up within her

;he swept away all opposing opinion with the swift rush of her enthusiasm

;he thrived on insincerity

;he twitted him merrily

;he was both weary and placated

;he was conscious of a tumultuous rush of sensations

;he was demure and dimly appealing

;he was exquisitely simple

;he was gripped with a sense of su!ocation and panic

;he was in an anguish of sharp and penetrating remorse

;he was oppressed by a dead melancholy

;he was stricken to the soul



;he wore an air of wistful questioning

;heer superuity of happiness

;ickening contrasts and diabolic ironies of life

;ilence fell

;inging lustily as if to exorcise the demon of gloom

;kirmishes and retreats of conscience

;lender experience of the facts of life

;lope towards extinction

;low the movement was and tortuous

;lowly disengaging its signicance from the thicket of words

;o innocent in her exuberant happiness

;oar into a rosy zone of contemplation

;oftened by the solicitude of untiring and anxious love



;olitary and sorely smitten souls

;ome dim-remembered and dream-like images

;ome exquisite renement in the architecture of the brain

;ome ash of witty irrelevance

;omething curiously suggestive and engaging

;omething eminently human beaconed from his eyes

;omething full of urgent haste

;omething indescribably reckless and desperate in such a picture

;omething that seizes tyrannously upon the soul

;ore beset by the pressure of temptation

;pecious show of impeccability

;pectacular display of wrath

;pur and whip the tired mind into action



;tale and facile platitudes

;tamped with unutterable and solemn woe

;tartled into perilous activity

;tartling leaps over vast gulfs of time

;tem the tide of opinion

;tern emptying of the soul

;timulated to an ever deepening subtlety

;tirred into a true access of enthusiasm

;tony insensibility to the small pricks and frictions of daily life

;trange capacities and suggestions both of vehemence and pride

;trange laughings and glitterings of silver streamlets

;tripped to its bare skeleton

;trode forth imperiously



;truck by a sudden curiosity

;truck dumb with strange surprise

;tung by his thoughts, and impatient of rest

;tung by the splendor of the prospect

;ubdued passages of unobtrusive ma"esty

;ublime indi!erence to contemporary usage and taste

;ubmission to an implied rebuke

;ubtle indications of great mental agitation

;ubtle suggestions of remoteness

;uch things as the eye of history sees

;uch was the petty chronicle

;uddenly a thought shook him

;uddenly overawed by a strange, delicious shyness



;uddenly smitten with unreality

;uddenly snu!ed out in the middle of ambitious schemes

;u!ered to languish in obscurity

;ugared remonstrances and ca"oleries

;uggestions of veiled and vibrant feeling

;ummer clouds oating feathery overhead

;unk in a phraseological quagmire

;unk into a gloomy reverie

;unny silence broods over the realm of little cottages

;upreme arbiter of conduct

;usceptibility to eeting impressions

;weet smoke of burning twigs hovered in the autumn day

;wift summer into the autumn owed



<

<aking the larger sweeps in the march of mind

<ears of outraged vanity blurred her vision

<eased with impertinent questions

<enderness breathed from her

<ense with the anguish of spiritual struggle

<error lled the more remote chambers of his brain with riot

<ethered to earth

<hat which utters the brain for a moment

<he accelerated beat of his thoughts

<he auent splendor of the summer day

<he afternoon was lled with sound and sunshine

<he afternoon was waning



<he air and sky belonged to midsummer

<he air darkened swiftly

<he air is touched with a lazy fragrance, as of hidden owers

<he air was caressed with song

<he air was full of fugitive strains of old songs

<he air was raw and pointed

<he allurements of a coquette

<he ambition and rivalship of men

<he angry blood burned in his face

<he anguish of a spiritual conict tore his heart

<he articial smile of languor

<he awful and implacable approach of doom

<he babble of brooks grown audible



<he babbledom that dogs the heels of fame

<he bait proved incredibly successful

<he balm of solitary musing

<he beauty straightway vanished

<he beckonings of alien appeals

<he benign look of a father

<he blandishments of pleasure and pomp of power

<he blinding mist came down and hid the land

<he blue bowl of the sky, all glorious with the blaze of a million worlds

<he bound of the pulse of spring

<he buzz of idolizing admiration

<he caressing peace of bright soft sunshine

<he chaotic sound of the sea



<he chill of forlorn old age

<he chill of night crept in from the street

<he chivalric sentiment of honor

<he chivalrous homage of respect

<he clamorous agitation of rebellious passions

<he clouded, restless, "aded mood

<he constant iteration of the sea&s wail

<he contagion of extravagant luxury

<he conversation became desultory

<he crowning touch of pathos

<he current of his ideas owed full and strong

<he dance whizzed on with cumulative fury

<he dawn is singing at the door



<he day sang itself into evening

<he day was at once redolent and vociferous

<he day was blind with fog

<he day was gracious

<he days passed in a stately procession

<he days when you dared to dream

<he debilitating fears of alluring fate

<he deep and solemn purple of the summer night

<he deep ush ebbed out of his face

<he deep tranquillity of the shaded solitude

<he deepening twilight lled with shadowy visions

<he deepest wants and aspirations of his soul

<he delicatest reproof of imagined distrust



<he demerit of an unworthy alliance

<he desire of the moth for the star

<he dimness of the sealed eye and soul

<he dreamy solicitations of indescribable afterthoughts

<he dying day lies beautiful in the tender glow of the evening

<he early morning of the 1ndian summer day was tinged with blue mistiness

<he earth looked despoiled

<he east alone frowned with clouds

<he easy grace of an unpremeditated agreeable talker

<he easy-going indolence of a sedentary life

<he echo of its wrathful roar surged and boomed among the hills

<he empurpled hills standing up, solemn and sharp, out of the green-gold air

<he enchanting days of youth



<he eternal questioning of inscrutable fate

<he evening comes with slow steps

<he evening star silvery and solitary on the girdle of the early night

<he exaggerations of morbid hallucinations

<he excitement of rival issues

<he extraordinary wistful look of innocence and simplicity

<he eye of a scrutinizing observer

<he eyes burnt with an amazing re

<he eyes lled with playfulness and vivacity

<he father&s vigil of questioning sorrow

<he ne ower of culture

<he rst recoil from her disillusionment

<he awless triumph of art



<he ight of the autumnal days

<he ower of courtesy

<he uttering of untried wings

<he foreground was incredibly shabby

<he fragrance of a dear and honored name

<he freshening breeze struck his brow with a cooling hand

<he freshness of some pulse of air from an invisible sea

<he fruit of vast and heroic labors

<he general e!ect was of extraordinary lavish profusion

<he give and take was delicious

<he gloom of the afternoon deepened

<he gloom of winter dwelt on everything

<he gloomy insolence of self-conceit



<he glow of the ambitious re

<he golden gloom of the past and the bright-hued hope of the future

<he golden riot of the autumn leaves

<he golden sunlight of a great summer day

<he gray air rang and rippled with lark music

<he grimaces and caperings of bu!oonery

<he grotesque nightmare of a haunting fear

<he hand of time sweeps them into oblivion

<he haunting melody of some familiar line of verse

<he haunting phrase leaped to my brain

<he headlong vigor of sheer improvisation

<he heights of magnanimity and love

<he high-bred pride of an oriental



<he hills were clad in rose and amethyst

<he hill-tops gleam in morning&s spring

<he hinted sweetness of the challenge aroused him

<he hot humiliation of it overwhelmed her

<he hungry curiosity of the mind

<he idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought

<he idle chatter of the crowd

<he immediate tyranny of a present emotion

<he inaccessible solitude of the sky

<he incarnation of all loveliness

<he incoherent loquacity of a nervous patient

<he indenable air of good-breeding

<he indenable yearning for days that were dead



<he indenite atmosphere of an opulent nature

<he intercepted glances of wondering eyes

<he intrusive question faded

<he invidious stigma of selshness

<he iron hand of oppression

<he irresistible and ceaseless onow of time

<he irrevocable past and the uncertain future

<he landscape ran, laughing, downhill to the sea

<he leaden sky rests heavily on the earth

<he leaves of time drop stealthily

<he leaves syllabled her name in cautious whispers

<he lights winked

<he little incident seemed to throb with signicance



<he lofty grace of a prince

<he loud and urgent pageantry of the day

<he low hills on the horizon wore a haze of living blue

<he machinations of a relentless mountebank

<he machinations of an unscrupulous enemy

<he magical lights of the horizon

<he ma"estic solemnity of the moment yielded to the persuasive warmth of day

<he marvelous beauty of her womanhood

<he maximum of attainable and communicable truth

<he melancholy day weeps in monotonous despair

<he melodies of birds and bees

<he memory of the night grew fantastic and remote

<he meticulous observation of facts



<he mind freezes at the thought

<he mind was lled with a formless dread

<he mocking echoes of long-departed youth

<he moment marked an epoch

<he moon is waning below the horizon

<he more&s the pity

<he morning beckons

<he morning droned along peacefully

<he most servile acquiescence

<he multiplicity of odors competing for your attention

<he murmur of soft winds in the tree-tops

<he murmur of the surf boomed in melancholy mockery

<he murmuring of summer seas



<he music and mystery of the sea

<he music of her delicious voice

<he music of her presence was singing a swift melody in his blood

<he music of unforgotten years sounded again in his soul

<he mute melancholy landscape

<he mystery obsessed him

<he naked fact of death

<he nameless and inexpressible fascination of midnight music

<he narrow glen was full of the brooding power of one universal spirit

<he nascent spirit of chivalry

<he night was drowned in stars

<he old ruddy conviction deserted me

<he onrush and vividness of life



<he opulent sunset

<he orange pomp of the setting sun

<he oscillations of human genius

<he outpourings of a tenderness reawakened by remorse

<he pageantry of sea and sky

<he palest abstractions of thought

<he palpitating silence lengthened

<he panorama of life was unrolled before him

<he paraphernalia of power and prosperity

<he parting crimson glory of the ripening summer sun

<he past slowly drifted out of his thought

<he pendulous eyelids of old age

<he penetrating odors assailed his memory as something unforgettable



<he pent-up intolerance of years of repression

<he perfume of the mounting sea saturated the night with wild fragrance

<he piquancy of the pageant of life

<he pith and sinew of mature manhood

<he plenitude of her piquant ways

<he presage of disaster was in the air

<he pressure of accumulated misgivings

<he preternatural pomposities of the pulpit

<he pristine freshness of spring

<he pull of soul on body

<he pulse of the rebounding sea

<he purging sunlight of clear poetry

<he purple vaulted night



<he question drummed in head and heart day and night

<he question irresistibly emerged

<he quick pulse of gain

<he radiant serenity of the sky

<he radiant stars brooded over the stainless elds, white with freshly fallen snow

<he restlessness of o!ended vanity

<he retreating splendor of autumn

<he rising storm of words

<he river ran darkly, mysteriously by

<he river sang with its lips to the pebbles

<he roar of the tra0c rose to thunder

<he romantic ardor of a generous mind

<he room had caught a solemn and awful quietude



<he rosy-hued sky went widening o! into the distance

<he rosy twilight of boyhood

<he royal arrogance of youth

<he sadness in him deepened inexplicably

<he scars of rancor and remorse

<he scent of roses stole in with every breath of air

<he sea heaved silvery, far into the night

<he sea slept under a haze of golden winter sun

<he sea-sweep enfolds you, satisfying eye and mind

<he sea-wind bu!eted their faces

<he secret and subduing charm of the woods

<he see-saw of a wavering courage

<he sentimental tourist will be tempted to tarry



<he shadows of the night seemed to retreat

<he shadows rested quietly under the breezeless sky

<he shafts of ridicule

<he sheer weight of unbearable loneliness

<he shiver of the dusk passed fragrantly down the valley

<he silence grew stolid

<he silence was uncomfortable and ominous

<he silent day perfumed with the hidden owers

<he silver silence of the night

<he sinking sun made mellow gold of all the air

<he sky grew brighter with the imminent day

<he sky grew ensa!roned with the indescribable hue that heralds day

<he sky put on the panoply of evening



<he sky was a relentless, changeless blue

<he sky was dull and brooding

<he sky was heavily sprinkled with stars

<he sky was turning to the pearly gray of dawn

<he smiling incarnation of loveliness

<he song of hurrying rivers

<he sound of the sea waxed

<he spacious leisure of the forest

<he spell of a deathless dream was upon them

<he star-strewn spaces of the night

<he stars looked down in their silent splendor

<he stars seemed attentive

<he steadfast mind kept its hope



<he steady thunder of the sea accented the silence

<he still voice of the poet

<he stillness of a forced composure

<he stillness of the star-hung night

<he strangest thought shimmered through her

<he stream forgot to smile

<he streams laughed to themselves

<he strident discord seemed to mock his mood

<he stunning crash of the ocean saluted her

<he subtle emanation of other inuences seemed to arrest and chill him

<he sudden rush of the awakened mind

<he summit of human attainment

<he sun blazed torridly



<he sun goes down in ame on the far horizon

<he sun lay golden-soft over the huddled hills

<he sunlight spread at a gallop along the hillside

<he sunset was rushing to its height through every possible phase of violence and

splendor

<he suspicion of secret malevolence

<he swelling tide of memory

<he swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries

<he tempered daylight of an olive garden

<he tender grace of a day that is ed

<he tension of struggling tears which strove for an outlet

<he thought leaped

<he timely e!usion of tearful sentiment

<he tone betrayed a curious irritation



<he torture of his love and terror crushed him

<he trees rustled and whispered to the streams

<he tumult in her heart subsided

<he tumult in her mind found sudden speech

<he tumult of pride and pleasure

<he tune of moving feet in the lamplit city

<he tyranny of nipping winds and early frosts

<he unmasked batteries of her glorious gray eyes

<he vacant elds looked blankly irresponsive

<he vast and shadowy stream of time

<he vast cathedral of the world

<he vast unexplored land of dreams

<he velvet of the cloudless sky grew darker, and the stars more luminous



<he veneer of a spurious civilization

<he very pulsation and throbbing of his intellect

<he very silence of the place appeared a source of peril

<he vision ed him

<he vivifying touch of humor

<he web of lies is rent in pieces

<he wheel of her thought turned in the same desolate groove

<he whispering rumble of the ocean

<he white seething surf fell exhausted along the shore

<he whole exquisite night was his

<he whole sea of foliage is shaken and broken up with little momentary shiverings

and shadows

<he wide horizon forever ames with summer

<he wild whirl of nameless regret and passionate sorrow



<he wild winds ew round, sobbing in their dismay

<he wind charged furiously through it, panting towards the downs

<he wind piped drearily

<he wind was in high frolic with the rain

<he winnowed tastes of the ages

<he woods were silent with adoration

<he youth of the soul

<he zenith turned shell pink

<heir ephemeral but enchanting beauty had expired forever

<heir eyes met glancingly

<heir troth had been plighted

<here was a kind of exhilaration in this subtle baiting

<here was a mild triumph in her tone



<here was a mournful and dim haze around the moon

<here was a strange massing and curving of the clouds

<here was a thrill in the air

<here was a time 1 might have trod the sunlit heights

<here was no glint of hope anywhere

<here was no menace in the night&s silvern calmness

<here was something so kindly in its easy candor

<here was spendthrift grandeur

<hese qualities were raised to the white heat of enthusiasm

<hey became increasingly turbid and phantasmagorical

<hey escaped the baed eye

<hey sit heavy on the soul

<hey were vastly dissimilar



<his exquisite con"unction and balance

<his little independent thread of inquiry ran through the texture of his mind and

died away

<his shadowy and chilling sentiment unaccountably creeps over me

<hought shook through her in poignant pictures

<houghts came thronging in panic haste

<hrilled by fresh and indescribable odors

<hrilled with a sense of strange adventure

<hrough a cycle of many ages

<hrough endless and labyrinthine sentences

<hrilled to the depths of her being

<ime had passed unseen

<insel glitter of empty titles

<ired with a dull listless fatigue



<o all intents and purposes

<o speak with entire candor

<o stay his tottering constancy

<o the scourging he submitted with a good grace

<ossed disdainfully o! from young and ardent lips

<ouched every moment with shifting and enchanting beauty

<ouched with a bewildering and elusive beauty

<ranscendental contempt for money

<ransformed with an overmastering passion

<rouble gathered on his brow

<urning the world topsy-turvey

<wilight creeps upon the darkening mind

=

=napproachable grandeur and simplicity



=naware of her bitter taunt

=nder the vivifying touch of genius

=nearthly in its malignant glee

=nfathomed depths and impossibilities

=nforced and unstudied depth of feeling

=nspoiled by praise or blame

=nspoken messages from some vaster world

=nstable moral equilibrium of boyhood

=ntil sleep overtakes us at a stride

=ntouched by the ruthless spirit of improvement

=pon the mountain-tops of meditation

=rbanely plastic and versatile

=ttering grandiose puerilities



>

>ain allurements of folly and fashion

>ariously ramied and delicately minute channels of expression

>arnished over with a cold repellent cynicism

>ast sweep of mellow distances

>eiled by some equivocation

>ibrant with the surge of human passions

>icissitudes of wind and weather

>igor and richness of resource

>isible and palpable pains and penalties

>oices that charm the ear and echo with a subtle resonance in the soul

>olcanic upheavings of imprisoned passions

?



?antonly and detestably unkind

?aylay *estiny and bid him stand and deliver

?ayward and strangely playful responses

?earing the white ower of a blameless life

?hat sorry and pitiful quibbling

?hen a pleasant countryside tunes the spirit to a serene harmony of mood

?hen music is allied to words

?hen the frame and the mind alike seem unstrung and listless

?hen the profane voices are hushed

?hen the waves show their teeth in the ying breeze

?hilst the morn kissed the sleep from her eyes

?histled life away in perfect contentment

?holly alien to his spirit



?ith a vanquished and weary sigh

?omanly ckleness and caprice

?ords and acts easily wrenched from their true signicance

?orn to shreds by anxiety

?rapped in a sudden intensity of reection

?rapped in an inaccessible mood

?rapped in scudding rain

?rapt in his odorous and many-colored robe

?rapt in inward contemplation

?rought of an emotion infectious and splendidly dangerous

?rought out of intense and tragic experience

@

@ielding to a wave of pity



@our mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content

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