Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet,
Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,
And golden locks in breezy play,
Half teasing and half tender, to repeat
Her song of "May."
Susan Coolidge (pseudonym of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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"So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house?
And a next is under way for little Mr. ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Every tear is answered by a blossom,
Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,
April-blooms up... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Every Fern is tucked and set,
'Neath coverlet,
Downy and soft and warm. SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) The punctual tide draws up the bay,
With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) All night the thirsty beach has listening lain
With patience dumb,
Counting the slow, said mom... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) They know the time to go!
The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour
In field and woodland, ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is k... SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them. SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY ... And God, who studies each separate soul,
out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whol... SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY The tasks are done and the tears are shed.
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterd... SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it gro... SUSAN COOLIDGE We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are. JAMES WOOLSEY Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn'... JAMES WOOLSEY It was like going from the penthouse to the outhouse of the NFL. ROLLY WOOLSEY American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spea... JAMES WOOLSEY We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrori... JAMES WOOLSEY France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of ... JAMES WOOLSEY Be cautious about avalanches. Just when you think you really know them you get caught in one. LARRY WOOLSEY [The CIA has a] unique responsibility to steal secrets, ... That is absolutely timeless. JAMES WOOLSEY had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States. JAMES WOOLSEY a real success for her. JAMES WOOLSEY It has to be looked at in the context of whether this interim agreement is a valuable agreement and ... JAMES WOOLSEY It's as if we were fighting with dragon for some 45 years and slew the dragon and then found ourselv... JAMES WOOLSEY They are looking hard for technology to get leverage with their conventional forces and to move more... JAMES WOOLSEY Our response should be, 'good!' JAMES WOOLSEY One of the generals, I think, said yesterday that over 90 percent of the attacks that occurred in th... JAMES WOOLSEY You cannot save every bird, even the handsome ones. WOOLSEY SCOTT As we move toward a new Middle East, ... over the years and, I think, over the decades to come ... w... JAMES WOOLSEY A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we o... 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It looks like they put an explosive in the ani... LARRY WOOLSEY It's a different kind of beauty. It's nice to go after it snows and you can see the snow on the tree... LARRY WOOLSEY An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will t... CHAUNCEY DEPEW The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. CHAUNCEY DEPEW I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. CHAUNCEY DEPEW A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. CHAUNCEY DEPEW Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.... CHAUNCEY DEPEW Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. I had some times where I played well, ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - ta... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT That's what a great team is all about. When somebody is struggling, somebody else is picking up the ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think it's a little mental fatigue. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Rip was aggressive early. And once he got it cooking, we kept going to him and we fed off him. When ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much. He tore the kid's confidence apart too much, and it was tough for him to... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think he feels like he has a weight lifted off his shoulders. He's playing freely. He's playing a ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Eclectic means you can put anything together as long as it's expensive. CHAUNCEY HOWE My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banque... CHAUNCEY DEPEW It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not lan... CHAUNCEY DEPEW We felt we had a chance to win this series, but nobody else felt that. We knew we were the only ones... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.... CHAUNCEY DEPEW The biggest thing I'm going to remember is walking out on the floor in this final game and looking u... CHAUNCEY STACY I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that aga... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We enjoy the challenge of beating teams on their home turf. The fans will be going crazy and screami... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When he's aggressive and he's playing like that, it takes the pressure off everybody. Rip (Richard H... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I am definitely going to miss him. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS What he meant to his game, not just to this city but to the entire league, with his sportsmanship an... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When he gets a tech, he always seems to be a little more in tune with what's going on. We ran his pl... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government. CHAUNCEY DEPEW Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [Billups seemed confident Friday that he and his teammates would rise to the challenge, and that Wal... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS He's 18, but he looks, the way he's built, like he's 27 or 28. And he doesn't act like a kid. He's v... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I remember before I left we had the program really rocking. It was loud when there was a lot of kids... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro. 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It's a process. It... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played i... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that ti... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS There is a good and a bad way to handle everything. 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