Society and the World

What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire. What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.

Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin’d, Lawless, wing’d, and unconfin’d, And breaks all chains from every mind.

I ask’d a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I ask’d a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He wink’d at the thief And smil’d at the dame— And without one word said Had a peach from the tree, And still as a maid Enjoy’d the lady.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression.

One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression.

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, And not seek for kind relief?

And all must love the human form, In heathen, turk, or jew; Where Mercy, Love, & Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

Through all the drama—whether damned or not— Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

In limitations he first shows himself the master, And the law can only bring us freedom.

In limitations he first shows himself the master, And the law can only bring us freedom.

Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew. 13

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

A true German can’t stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, “The same as everywhere!”

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, “The same as everywhere!”

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.