“And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.”

“I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself”

“Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.”

“Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine -
'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine.”

“He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

“As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.”

“What are the wild waves saying,
Sister, the whole day long,
That ever amid our playing
I hear but their low, lone song?”

“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

“She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.”

“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.”