item: #1 of 4 id: 15396 author: Stein, Gertrude title: Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms date: None words: 14994 flesch: 84 summary: There are more places not empty. No cup is broken in more places and mended, that is to say a plate is broken and mending does do that it shows that culture is Japanese. keywords: centre; change; color; cut; green; kind; light; piece; place; question; red; rest; shows; supposing; thing; time; use; water; way; white cache: 15396.txt plain text: 15396.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 22692 author: Mason, Walt title: Rippling Rhymes date: None words: 24543 flesch: 82 summary: This is the day of smiling, and faces stern and drear, on which few smiles beguiling are seen throughout the year, are lighted up with pleasure and eyes are soft today, and old men trip a measure with children in their play. Now, as in the days of Noah, man must take a massive pail, loaded up with milk denatured, with a dash of Adam's ale, and go down among the calfkins as the lion tamer goes 'mong the monarchs of the jungle, at the famous three-ring shows; and the calves are fierce and hungry, and they haven't sense to wait, till he gets a good position and has got his bucket straight; and they act as though they hadn't e'en a glimmering of sense, for they climb upon his shoulders ere he is inside the fence, and they butt him in the stomach, and they kick him everywhere, till he thinks he'd give a nickel for a decent chance to swear; then they all get underneath him and capsize him in the mud, and the milk runs down his whiskers and his garments in a flood, and you really ought to see him when he goes back to his home quoting divers pagan authors and the bards of ancient Rome. keywords: books; day; days; eyes; face; father; game; hand; head; heart; home; life; magazine; man; men; merchant; need; o'er; people; play; poor; set; shoes; smile; songs; store; talk; things; time; trade; use; vain; watch; way; white; work; world; years cache: 22692.txt plain text: 22692.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 33403 author: Stein, Gertrude title: Geography and Plays date: None words: 99802 flesch: 94 summary: Some are smaller than others, some are darker than others, some are harsher than others, some are sweeter than others, some are queerer than other, some are older than others, some have more hair on them than others, some are softer than others, some are quicker than others, some have longer nails than others, some have one longer nail than others, some look longer at some than others, some wear more things on them than others, some wear more kinds of colors than others, some are stronger than others, some are noisier than others, some are more respectful than others, some are braver than others, some are quieter than others, some are not lovelier than others. They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that are things in being gay, they were gay every day, they were regular, they were gay, they were gay the same length of time every day, they were gay, they were quite regularly gay. keywords: act; ask; believe; black; blue; care; change; color; come; coming; country; course; day; dear; evening; feeling; furr; gay; good; house; iii; kind; leave; left; let; light; listening; living; mean; meaning; mention; miss; money; mother; mrs; need; ones; page; people; piece; place; question; reason; rest; scene; shows; sir; sister; stay; tell; thing; thinking; time; today; use; water; way; white; wish; yes; young cache: 33403.txt plain text: 33403.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 35654 author: Wallace, Edna Kingsley title: The Stars in the Pool: A Prose Poem for Lovers date: None words: 11745 flesch: 85 summary: Flame Speaketh Modestly_] Then was there feasting and laughter, and Flame, son of Lokus, told many tales of far countries--of strange customs, and cunning of husbandry and handicraft; of wars and the courts of Kings; of mightily mountains, of great seas and the storms thereof, wherein he himself had laboured mightily with the men of the ship that they should not perish all. [Sidenote: _Cometh Flame_] Now when Flame, yet some way off, saw that the woman in shining raiment was the beloved of his soul, Roseheart, his heart leapt within him, and there was upon his limbs the speed of light. keywords: eyes; flame; love; maid; roseheart; sidenote; telwyn; thee; thou; woman cache: 35654.txt plain text: 35654.txt