Silver-plated water
I have seen beaten-bronze and copper-coloured water, but never silver-plated.
'The cool, placid, silver-plated water at even coolly awaits the...
Five for the price of one
Thoreau packs in a rich deck of similes and metaphors in this short description of the shrub oak. For the...
Benign in his bowels
Don't worry, this is just a metaphor for people who are cloyingly, invasively kind and try to absorb you into...
As dumb as putty
Good we now have another way to tell someone they're dumb - please feel free to revive this fine phrasing...
That grand old poem called Winter
To celebrate the winter solstice, a few crisp quotations. I loved Thoreau's description of winter as an epic in blank...
Ebbs and flows of the soul
A journal as a beach gathering shells, seaweed and pearls washed up by the soul in the course of a...
Joining thought to thought
Thoreau is a vigorous soul and I found it refreshing that he associates vigour with connected thought. As you see...
A perfectly healthy sentence
What a lovely thing, a perfectly healthy sentence summing up what it feels like when you read one. The poetry...
Writing time and speeding clocks
Any absorbing activity has this magical effect of taking you almost outside of time, until you look at the clock...
Wrong by a jugful
A charming way to say that someone is seriously wrong - not right by a jugful. I will try to...
Waking like a bullet
While I don't relish bullets striking things, I like the occasional quickness of a sleep-satiated body waking up, alert to...
Glaucous-green field
I found myself wondering just what shade of green is glaucous, and learning that it is either 'a dull greyish-green...
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