Beloved (1987)
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
Context: We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war.
It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.
“Raise your words, not voice.
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
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“A slow autumn rain:
The sad eyes of my mother
Fill a lonely night.”
Haiku: This Other World (1998)
“The clouds, never expect it,
When it rains
But the sea changes color,
But the sea does not change”
Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)
“What passion cannot Music raise and quell?”
St. 2.
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687)
Variant: What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 72
