"Yes. I remember Adlestrop – The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It wa…"

"The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with …"

"I built myself a house of glass: It took me years to make it: And I was proud. But now, alas! Would God someone would…"

"I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the wi…"

"To envy a man is to misunderstand him or yourself."

"If I should ever by chance grow rich I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater, And l…"

"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

"Far more I feared all company: too sharp, too rude, Had been the wisest or the dearest human voice. What I desired I …"

"As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower."

"I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds, Sniff them and think and sniff again and try Once more to think what it is I a…"