Language
Lenny Bruce
The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.
Robert Browning
Gr-r-r—there go, my heart’s abhorrence!
Grow old along with me!
I was ever a fighter, so—one fight more,
That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good.
Never the time and the place
We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,
Never glad confident morning again!
‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay,’ the soldier’s pride
Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Open my heart and you will see
How sad and bad and mad it was—
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and if God choose,
Gwendolyn Brooks
Abortions will not let you forget.
Rupert Brooke
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,
Charlotte Brontë
Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!