“[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
Anna Sewell book Black Beauty
Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. III, p. 20
W*O*L*D
Song lyrics, Short Stories (1974)
“[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
Anna Sewell book Black Beauty
Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. III, p. 20
“Dream within a dream,
Our dream deferred.
Good morning, daddy!
Ain’t you heard?”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Island"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variant: What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain’t you heard?
Gerry Rafferty (1947–2011) Scottish singer and songwriter
Baker Street.
Song lyrics, City to City (1978)
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
The 59th Street Bridge Song
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)
Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
"Casimir Pulaski Day"
Lyrics, Illinois (2005)
James Taylor (1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
"Fire and Rain" · Live performance (1970) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOIo4lEpsPY <br class="br">Song lyrics, Sweet Baby James (1970)
“I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning.”
Michael Joyce (1945) American academic and writer
"afternoon, a story" (1990)