...WITH QUAINT COUNTENANCES THEY REGARDED HIM. THEY WERE VERY CURIOUS, THOSE THREE LITTLE BIRDS IN A ROW. IN THE DESERT I SAW A CREATURE, NAKED, BESTIAL, WHO,...BECAUSE IT IS BITTER, "AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART." YES, I HAVE A THOUSAND TONGUES, AND NINE AND NINETY-NINE LIE. THOUGH I STRIVE TO USE THE ONE, IT WILL...

...Crane's Lines, which might serve Tut some purpose if pinned to the title-page of Jude t/ie Obscure : " In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial. Who,...friend ? ' ' It is bitter — bitter,' he answered . 1 But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.' " • Mrs. Oliphant's scathing...

...quintessence of pessimism in this cynical appreciation of morbidness, by another latter-day poet: " In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,...ate of it. I said, ' Is it good, friend ?' ' It is bitter—bitter,' he answered; ' But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.'"...

...God, in all his splendor, Arose from his throne. "Oh, best little blade of grass!" he said. THE HEART In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,..."Because it is bitter, "And because it is my heart." Edwin Ford Piper Edwin Ford Piper was born at Auburn, Nebraska, February 8, 1871, and literally grew...

...God, in all his splendor, Arose from his throne. "Oh, best little blade of grass!" he said. THE HEART In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,..."Because it is bitter, "And because it is my heart." Edwin Ford Piper Edwin Ford Piper was born at Auburn, Nebraska, February 8, 1871, and literally grew...

...showed sharp vision. His method was an irregular blank verse, primarily iambic. His art is not kindly. In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,...he answered; "But I like it, Because it is bitter, i And because it is my heart." He understood the source of the poet's lines, which is not a patent...

...vision. His method was an irregular blank verse, primarily iambic. His art is not kindly. In the desert I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter, bitter,"...Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart." He understood the source of the poet's lines, which is not a patent sonnet-machine : Many red devils...

...quaint countenances They regarded him. They were very curious, Those three little birds in a row. III In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,...heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it goodjriend?" "It is bitter — bitter" he answered; "But I like it Because it is bitter, And because...

...His Heart. In some magazine she had seen a poem of Stephen Crane's that furnished her inspiration. In the desert, I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who,...ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. To look at this figure and then at the young woman who had created it, was to understand the astonishment...

...Dame Envy does here. One recalls, with a difference, the stark poem of Stephen Crane, "The Heart": In the desert I saw a creature, naked bestial, Who,...like it "Because it is bitter "And because it is my heat1." The Flemish verse below the picture, freely rendered, declares: Envy, endless death and sickness...