Some Trees, by John Ashbery
> These are amazing: each Joining a neighbor, as though speech Were a still performance. Arranging by chance > To meet as far this morning From »
Dives and Lazarus, Child Ballad #56
> As it fell out upon a day, Rich Dives he made a feast, And he invited all his friends, And gentry of the best. > »
Two Cheers for Democracy, by E.M. Forster
> I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in self-defense, one has »
His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman
> At the foot of the mile-long slope, there was a stand of the great trees, and nearby a river meandered on the level grassy ground. »
IX. If Poisonous Minerals, and If That Tree
> If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on (else immortal) us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damn’d, »