
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: Here and there, betwixt the cradle and the coffin, I meet your silent brothers,
The free men, unshackled,
Sons of your mother earth and space.
They are like the birds of the sky,
And like the lilies of the field.
They live your life and think your thoughts,
And they echo your song.
But they are empty-handed,
And they are not crucified with the great crucifixion,
And therein is their pain.
The world crucifies them every day,
But only in little ways.
The sky is not shaken,
And the earth travails not with her dead.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
If Tomorrow Never Comes, written by G. Brooks and Kent Blazy.
Song lyrics, Garth Brooks (1989)
“In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 12
“The dead are free from Fortune; Mother Earth has room for all her children, and he who lacks an urn has the sky to cover him.”
Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellus
quae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.
Book VII, line 818 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Vol. III, John XIV: 4–11, p. 60
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. John (1865–1873)
No. 37 ("Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries").
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn, st. 14.
“The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us.”
Source: Reflected in You