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Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake;
Or, Lord, if too obdurate I,
Choose thou, before that spirit die,
A piercing pain, a killing sin,
And to m...
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author. The Celestial Surgeon (l. 9-14). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. e...
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It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, wit...
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author. "The Character of Dogs," Memories and Portraits, Scribner (1916).
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