“I My Wife. Strange : I sit here, and write my painful prose, And my sweet love is in the Land of Dreams, Where bloom weird flowers and murmur mystic streams, And with wild wilful curve life’s current flows, So what will happen next no creature knows In that far region : some mad Demon... Read more »”

“We are a hundred and thirty days out from Melbourne, and for three weeks we have lain in this sweltering calm. // It is midnight, and our watch on deck until four a.m. I go out and sit on the hatch. A minute later, Joky, our youngest ‘prentice, joins me for a chatter. Many are the hours we have sat thus and talked in the night watches; though, to be sure, it is Joky who does the talking. I am content to smoke and listen, giving an occasional grunt at seasons to show that I am attentive.”

“She has no discrimination. / She takes to all the animals—all of them! / She thinks they are all treasures, / every new one is welcome. // When the brontosaurus came striding into camp, / she regarded it as an acquisition, / I considered it a calamity; ”

“Twenty-seven years ago, as Emperor of Ethiopia, I mounted the rostrum in Geneva, Switzerland, to address the League of Nations and to appeal for relief from the destruction which had been unleashed against my defenseless nation, by the Fascist invader. I spoke then both to and for the conscience of the world. My words went... Read more »”