Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
This became a pretty long post, sorry.
I noticed something that I haven't seen before in Kirk/Spock analysis, so I'd like to talk about it. As I said other times, I'm aware that Star Trek fans in over half a century have probably already written everything about the most popular ship, but that's not going to stop me from adding my own words. :)
What I want to talk about is in the episode Whom Gods Destroy. I feel like this episode is pretty underrated among K/S shippers. Nowadays, it might be because of this part:
"Kirk and Spock call each other brothers, this episode tries to no-homo them!"
Short answer: No, it doesn't.
Long answer: This is not what I actually want to focus on, but I understand that it's important, so I'll try to give an explanation. When we watch TOS, we always need to remember when it was made. I know it's not easy (trust me, I made that mistake too), but unfortunately we can't forget that, in the '60s, homosexuality was still considered a mental illness (if not worse, depending on the people/country), and portraying it in a positive way in a mainstream American show was NOT an option. At the time, it wasn't uncommon for queer people to call each other "brothers/sisters" as a socially acceptable way to say "we love each other", "we're each other's most important person", "we have something special that is different from friendship".
Does it mean Kirk and Spock say "brothers" when they mean "lovers"? Not necessarily, of course, but we need to remember that, unlike contemporary shows where two men can actually claim to be brothers to mean "we're close but not gay", in the past it could have meant "we're close and maybe also gay". I'm not saying it's canon, but the interpretation is valid.
As you can see, Garth strongly disagrees with Kirk and Spock when they say they're brothers. :D Unfortunately, it's from the wrong reason: he's claiming that they only have a captain-first officer relationship, without feelings involved. And the episode definitely wants us to think that he's wrong! Kirk and Spock love each other! They have very special feelings for each other, feelings that the word "friendship" wouldn't completely convey. I choose to interpret their "brotherhood" in that positive way, also keeping in mind that Spock does say Kirk is speaking "somewhat figuratively", so he's aware they're not actual adopted siblings. :)
Of course, I can't forget to add what every K/S fan knows: if we consider Roddenberry's novel canon (or at least canonically relevant to a degree), Vulcans use the same word, t'hy'la, to say "friend", "brother", "lover" or a combination of at least two of them. That just makes everything easy! Every time Kirk and Spock call each other "friends" or "brothers" in canon, we can just assume they mean t'hy'la. Checkmate! :D
Okay, back to Whom Gods Destroy. If that episode isn't as "no homo" as we initially thought, what makes it so good for K/S shippers to the point that I'm writing a long post about it? Well, a couple of things. The first one happens before the "brothers" speech, and it's this:
In context, Marta claims to write poetry, so she recites one of "her" poems… which is very obviously Shakespeare. Star Trek writers chose one of the most famous English sonnets of all time on purpose, and it's clear because they made 100% sure every single person watching the episode wouldn't miss it:
So, okay, she didn't write it. We got it. It's Star Trek and its Shakespeare references, nothing new.
Is that all? Hm, I'm not sure. Because Shakespeare's sonnet 18 might be extremely famous, but it's not the only famous poem Shakespeare wrote. And even if it was, since the characters were going to point out that "hey that's Shakespeare" anyway, why did Star Trek writers chose that sonnet specifically? Why did they choose one of the sonnets Shakespeare wrote for another man, to express his beauty? To express his love for him?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
They could have chosen one of the sonnets Shakespeare wrote for a woman. There are a lot more! But no, Marta quotes a love poem by a man for another man, and the camera shows us this:
Just two bros, sitting together, listening to Shakespeare's words about a young man's beauty 'cause they're not gay.
Now… I know, I know. Even nowadays, Shakespeare is too famous to be universally accepted as queer. There's always going to be academics who think "those sonnets were platonic!"; at the time Star Trek was made, I wouldn't be surprised if almost everyone thought "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" was about either platonic love or love for a woman (the latter used to be a theory too, but it was proved wrong). On the other hand, the queer reading has also been discussed for centuries, and supported by famous academics too, like Oscar Wilde. So even in this case, we can't really know what Star Trek writers had in mind. Did they just pick the most popular sonnet without thinking too hard? Did they try to add gay subtext to the scene? Well, it certainly looks gay to me. :)
And now, the best part! What, you thought it was over? Nope, I said I was going to talk about "a couple of things", and Shakespeare was just the first one. Because if you think that his sonnet was probably not meant to be gay in context, and after that Kirk and Spock call each other brothers, and that's also not gay in your opinion… well, maybe we can add a little more fuel to the potential gay subtext.
So, what is Marta doing here? Quoting poetry again.
Right after their conversation about brotherhood and the loyalty of a crew, Garth gets mad at Spock ("Remove this animal!"); Garth's men bring Spock away, and Garth asks Kirk the password to get to the Enterprise. He tells Kirk that he'll make him beg for death. That's when Marta suddenly starts reciting another poem. This time, though, there's a big difference from the first one: the audience can tell it's probably another reference because of her previous behavior, but it's hard to recognize. It's not Shakespeare. It's not even the most popular poem by that author, and she's also quoting it a little wrong.
This is a subtle reference. The average Star Trek fan doesn't know what it is. I also didn't. So, of course, I got curious, and this is what I found:
A. E. Housman, English poet (1859 – 1936)
XIX.
In midnights of November,
When Dead Man’s Fair is nigh,
And danger in the valley,
And anger in the sky,
Around the huddling homesteads
The leafless timber roars,
And the dead call the dying
And finger at the doors.
Oh, yonder faltering fingers
Are hands I used to hold;
Their false companion drowses
And leaves them in the cold.
Oh, to the bed of ocean,
To Africk and to Ind,
I will arise and follow
Along the rainy wind.
The night goes out and under
With all its train forlorn;
Hues in the east assemble
And cocks crow up the morn.
The living are the living
And dead the dead will stay,
And I will sort with comrades
That face the beam of day.
Alfred Edward Housman is another English poet, but very different from William Shakespeare: he lived just a few decades before Star Trek was made. Why choosing him? Maybe because he wrote a lot about men dying during a war, and it's relevant because Garth killed a lot of people and wants to bring war to the galaxy. We will probably never know, but after a little research, I realized that Housman is definitely an interesting-- no, a fascinating choice.
As I said before, the poem Marta recites doesn't look like one of Housman's most popular works, and it's hard to find something specific about it online. It doesn't even have a title, that "XIX" simply means that it's the 19th poem in the volume it's part of. So what is so fascinating about it? Well…
The title of the volume is "Last Poems". I didn't use Wikipedia as my only source, but in this case, I think it can explain context better than me:
OH.
So the poem Marta is quoting in front of Kirk, the poem she wants to know if Kirk likes, is not just a poem about death: it's part of a volume a man wrote for the man he was in love with.
Wait, again? There are two poems in this episode, and both of them are by male authors who wrote them for the man they loved? That doesn't really look like a coincidence anymore.
It's subtle, for sure, especially the second one. The average person watching the episode probably doesn't recognize Housman, doesn't know anything about his life. The average person in front of their TV sees Marta trying to seduce Kirk right after "her" poem, so everything looks heterosexual, right?
Yeah, that's what it looks like. But it's the surface, nothing more.
Because unlike Shakespeare, I didn't find discourse about Housman's sexual orientation: there were probably rumors about his homosexuality when he was alive as well, and after his death, it wasn't really a mystery. A Housman reader, even in the 60s, probably knew.
So, yes, this episode has two poems. Two poets that in different times wrote for a man they loved. Could it be that Whom Gods Destroy is also, at least partially, about love between two men? Well, I basically already said it when I talked about the "brothers" conversation, but let's think about it again. Except for the last few minutes, Kirk and Spock are the only two characters from the main cast on that planet. There's another man, Dr. Cory, who knows Kirk. Kirk seems to care about him… but not enough to risk something while the doctor is tortured in front of his eyes. Also, Dr. Cory isn't present when Marta quotes the poems. The first time, Kirk and Spock are together, and the second time happens not long after this scene:
They try to make Kirk like the girl, but does he really care?
Nope, he just wants Spock back.
They are "brothers (somewhat figuratively)" who trust each other deeply, and even if their enemies try to distract Kirk, it's obvious what he really wants.
It's him and Spock. Spock and… him?
Hmm...
Okay, that's better. :D
At this point of the series, they're so close that Kirk doesn't even consider the possibility that Spock might not recognize him immediately.
Luckily, none of them dies and their feelings are mutual, so they can be happier than Housman. Maybe they'll read his poems together. Or Shakespeare, that's always an option.
[Pictures from s3 e14 - Whom Gods Destroy]
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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … November 17
Andrea Doria as Neptune
1503 – Agnolo Bronzino (d.1572) was one of the leading painters of the Florentine School in mid-sixteenth-century Italy. He eventually became court painter to Cosimo de Medici. Born in Monticelli in 1503, Bronzino studied with mannerist painter and portraitist Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1557).
Most scholars conclude, based on a series of sonnets Bronzino wrote upon Pontormo's death, that the two men enjoyed a more intimate relationship than that of master and pupil. Later in his life, in 1552, Bronzino also adopted one of his own pupils, Alessandro Allori (1535-1607), as his son. In sixteenth-century Florence, this type of arrangement often signaled a sexual relationship between two men; an older man adopting his younger lover was quite common. The two artists lived together until Bronzino's death in 1572.
Famous mainly for his portraits, Bronzino also painted biblical and mythological scenes, designed tapestries and frescos, and composed poetry. While some of Bronzino's poetry consists of rather conventional lyric verse, as well as the sonnets upon Pontormo's death, he also wrote a considerable body of burlesque verse. Often obscene and erotic, burlesque verse circulated among Florentine intellectual and aristocratic circles, whose members would have detected obscure allusions and subtexts beneath the bawdy wordplay. Bronzino's burlesque poetry is distinguished by its large number of homoerotic references and allusions.
Cosimo I de' Medici as St. Sebastian
There is an undeniable homoerotic subtext to several of Bronzino's famous portraits, including Andrea Doria as Neptune (ca 1545) and Cosimo I de' Medici as St. Sebastian (ca 1538-1540).
In both his writing and painting, Bronzino contributes significant insights into same-sex desire and relationships in sixteenth-century Florentine society.
1851 – Major Lord Henry Arthur Somerset (d.1926) was the third son of the 8th Duke of Beaufort and his wife, the former Lady Georgiana Curzon. He was head of the stables of the future King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) and a Major in the Royal Horse Guards.
He was linked with the Cleveland Street scandal, wherein he was identified and named by several male prostitutes as a customer of their services. He was interviewed by police on 7 August 1889; although the record of the interview has not survived, it resulted in a report being made by the Attorney-General, Solicitor-General and Director of Prosecutions urging that proceedings should be taken against him under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. A piece of paper was pasted over Somerset's name in the report, as it was deemed so sensitive.
However, the Director was told that the Home Secretary wished him to take no action for the moment. The police obtained a further statement implicating Somerset, while Somerset arranged for his solicitor to act in the defence of the boys arrested over the scandal. After the police saw him for a second time on 22 August, Somerset obtained leave from his regiment and permission to go abroad.
Lord Arthur went to Homburg, although he returned to England. When tipped off in September that charges were imminent, he fled to France to avoid them. From there he travelled through Constantinople, Budapest, Vienna, and then back to France, where he settled and died in 1926, aged 74.
1854 – Louis-Hubert Lyautey (d.1934) was a French Army general and colonial administrator. After serving in Indochina and Madagascar, he became the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. Early in 1917 he served briefly as Minister of War. From 1921 he was a Marshal of France. He was dubbed the Maker of Morocco and the French empire builder, and in 1931 made the cover of Time.
Lyautey was born in Nancy, capital of Lorraine. His father was a prosperous engineer, his grandfather a highly decorated Napoleonic general. His mother was a Norman aristocrat, and Lyautey inherited many of her assumptions: monarchism, patriotism, Catholicism and belief in the moral and political importance of the elite.
As Resident-General of Morocco from 1912 he was publicly deferential to the sultan and told his men not to treat the Moroccans as a conquered people. It was he who governed Morocco for the French, developed its economy, extended its borders, and pacified native resistance. During WWI, even with diminished troops, Lyautey maintained an iron rule over this French protectorate.
During his administration, inadvertently, perhaps, Morocco became a place of refuge for homosexuals from all over Europe who came to sample the delights of the native population. Lyautey is one of the many real life homosexuals who people Roger Peyrefitte’s novel, The Exile of Capri.
1925 – Rock Hudson (d.1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his stunning looks and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Hudson was voted Star of the Year, Favorite Leading Man, or any number of similar titles by countless movie magazines, and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly seventy motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over three decades.
Hudson was born Leroy Harold Scherer Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois, the son of a telephone operator, and an auto mechanic who abandoned the family during the depths of the Great Depression, in the early 1930s. His mother remarried and his stepfather adopted him, changing his last name to Fitzgerald.
After graduating from high school, he served in the Philippines as an aircraft mechanic for the Navy during WW II. In 1946 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and applied to the University of Southern California's dramatics program, but was rejected due to poor grades. Among a number of odd jobs, he worked as a truck driver for a couple of years to support himself, longing to be an actor but with no success in breaking into the movies. A fortunate meeting with powerful - and gay - Hollywood talent scout Henry Willson in 1948 got Hudson his start in the business - and Willson renamed him "Rock Hudson."
Neither a gifted nor a natural actor, he was neverthless blessed with enormous charm and with time proved to have a flair for comedy and was capable of strong and memorable performances in drama. He was coached in acting, singing, dancing, fencing and horsebackriding, and he began to feature in film magazines where he was promoted on the basis of his good looks. Success and recognition came in 1954 with Magnificent Obsession in which Hudson plays a bad boy who is redeemed. The film received rave reviews, with Modern Screen Magazine citing Hudson as the most popular actor of the year.
Hudson's popularity soared in George Stevens' Giant, based on Edna Ferber's novel. Co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, and as a result of their powerful performances both Hudson and Dean were nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars.
Following Richard Brook's notable Something of Value in 1957 and a moving performance in Charles Vidor's A Farewell to Arms, based on Ernest Hemingway's novel, Hudson sailed through the 1960s on a cloud of romantic comedies. He portrayed humorous characters in Pillow Talk, the first of several profitable co-starring gigs with Doris Day; followed by Come September; Send Me No Flowers; Man's Favourite Sport, with Paula Prentiss, and Strange Bedfellows, with Gina Lollobrigida.
His popularity on the big screen diminished in the 1970s. He performed in a 13-city US tour of the musical Camelot. He was quite successful on television starring in a number of made-for-TV movies. His most successful series was McMillan and Wife opposite Susan Saint James from 1971 to 1977.
Following years of heavy drinking and smoking, by the early 1980s, Hudson began having health problems. Heart bypass surgery sidelined Hudson and his then-new TV show, The Devlin Connection, for a year; the show suffered for the delay and was cancelled not long after it returned to the airwaves. He recovered from the surgery, but a couple of years later Hudson's health had visibly deteriorated again, prompting different rumours.
In 1984 and 1985 Hudson landed a recurring role in Dynasty. While his inability to memorise dialogue was the stuff of legend, now he was exhibiting all the signs of a man in serious trouble. The need for cue cards was one thing, but when his speech began to deteriorate, everybody knew the least of Hudson's problems was simple forgetfulness. The word cancer was tossed around, but the phrase 'gay cancer' was not mentioned- not, at least, by those who had something to lose. Not yet.
While Hudson's career was blooming, he was struggling to keep his personal life out of the headlines, although the Hollywood media was complicit in concealing his homosexuality from the general public. Throughout his career, he epitomised an ideal of wholesome manliness, and in 1955 he wed Willson's secretary at the time, Phyllis Gates, and the news was made known by all the major gossip magazines. The union lasted three years. Gates filed for divorce in April 1958, charging mental cruelty; Hudson did not contest the divorce. Loyal friends and the now-unimaginable support of the media kept Hudson successfully in the closet to all but those 'in the know' until the 1980s.
According to the 1986 biography Rock Hudson: His Story by Hudson and Sara Davidson, Hudson was good friends with American novelist Armistead Maupin, and Hudson's lovers included: Jack Coates (born 1944); Hollywood publicist Tom Clark (1933-1995), who also later published a memoir about Hudson, Rock Hudson: Friend of Mine; and Marc Christian, who later won a palimony suit against the Hudson estate. In addition, Darwin Porter's book, Brando Unzipped (2006) claims that Hudson had an affair with Brando. Hudson was also a close friend of Burt Lancaster, who was reportedly bisexual, and Lancaster's FBI file suggested the two stars had attended Gay parties in Hollywood together.
An urban legend states that Hudson married Jim Nabors in the 1970s. In fact the two were never more than friends. According to Hudson, the legend originated with a group of "middle-aged homosexuals who live in Huntington Beach" who sent out joke invitations for their annual get-together. One year, the group invited its members to witness "the marriage of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors", at which Hudson would take the surname of Nabors's most famous character, Gomer Pyle, becoming "Rock Pyle". Those who failed to get the joke spread the rumor. As a result, Nabors and Hudson never spoke to each other again.
In 1985, Hudson joined his old friend Doris Day for the launch of her new cable show, Doris Day's Best Friends. His shockingly gaunt appearance, and his nearly-incoherent speech, was so shocking that it was broadcast again all over the national news shows that night and for weeks to come. Doris Day herself stared at him throughout their appearance together.
Hudson was diagnosed with HIV on June 5, 1984, but when the signs of illness became apparent, his publicity staff and doctors told the public that he had liver cancer. It was not until July 25, 1985, while in Paris for treatment, that Hudson issued a press release announcing that he was dying of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. This had an enormous impact as he was the not only the first major celebrity to come out with the disease but because most of his army of fans still had no idea that Rock Hudson was gay.
Shortly before his death Hudson stated, 'I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.' Hudson's death is said to have pushed his long time friend and then Republican President Ronald Reagan to change his tune on efforts to fight and publicise the epidemic. Rock Hudson's death from AIDS was a highly significant and tragic milestone in bringing the disease to a wider public consciousness.
Rock Hudson was cremated and his ashes buried at sea.
1960 – RuPaul Charles, best known as simply RuPaul, is an American actor, drag queen, model, author, and singer-songwriter, who first became widely known in the 1990s when he appeared in a wide variety of television programs, films, and musical albums. Previously, he was a fixture on the Atlanta and New York City club scenes during the 1980s and early 90s. RuPaul has on occasion performed as a man in a number of roles, usually billed as RuPaul Charles. RuPaul is noted among famous drag queens for his indifference towards the gender-specific pronouns used to address him—both "he" and "she" have been deemed acceptable. "You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me." He hosted a short-running talk show on VH1, and currently hosts reality television shows called RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag U.
RuPaul was born in San Diego, California. His name was given to him by his mother, a Louisiana native. The Ru came from roux, an ingredient used in gumbo. RuPaul struggled as a musician and filmmaker in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1980s. He participated in underground cinema, helping create the low-budget film Starrbooty, and an album by the same name. In Atlanta, RuPaul often performed at the Celebrity Club (managed by Larry Tee) as a bar dancer or with his band, Wee Wee Pole, which included the late Todd Butler.
In the early 1990s, RuPaul worked the Georgia club scene and was known by his full birth name. Initially participating in genderfuck-style performances, RuPaul performed solo and in collaboration with other bands at several New York nightclubs, most notably the Pyramid Club. He appeared for many years at the annual Wigstock drag festival and appeared in the documentary Wigstock: The Movie. In the '90s, RuPaul was known in the UK for his appearances on the Channel 4 series Manhattan Cable, a weekly series produced by World of Wonder and presented by American Laurie Pike about New York's wild and wacky public-access television system.
RuPaul is credited with the statement "We're born naked, and the rest is all drag."
1971 – A group of sex researchers looking for physical differences between homosexual and heterosexual men announce erroneous findings that heterosexuals have 40% more testosterone in their blood than homosexuals do.
Rock Hudson - A Personal Encounter:
By Me
Back in 1966, on my way to Canada, I had a brief brush with Rock Hudson.
I came to North America by ship from Fremantle, Australia, via the far east, and on the leg from Japan to North America, my friends and I, all travelling second-class, met up with a wealthy American travelling in first class. My friends were a couple of lesbian Australian nurses, and Joe, my cabin-mate, a straight Swiss guy. We were all about 25 at the time. The wealthy American, Lloyd, was a short chubby guy in his sixties. In retrospect, I think he looked a lot like Artie Johnson. He was very ostentatious, and seemed to have a never-ending wardrobe of clothes and of jewellry— neck-chains, rings, bracelets, and watches. He claimed to be a millionaire, and Pat Boone's boyfriend. The very idea was rather shocking to us small-town folk. The way he told it, he had been to Japan for Pat Boone's tour there, but Lloyd hated flying, so was travelling by ship instead while Pat flew home. At the time, Pat Boone was separated from his wife, and had not yet become "born again."
The reason Lloyd was associating with us obvious, though unstated — my cabin-mate Joe was a hottie! He was also absolutely straight, but Lloyd hoped to change that. He would buy us drinks to get us to leave him alone with Joe. He even gave the girls some expensive jewellry to get rid of them. He never really got anywhere with Joe, however.
Anyway, our landfall was in San Pedro, south of Los Angeles, before sailing north to San Francisco and Vancouver. When the American - from L.A. - was leaving ship, he invited us the a "welcome-home" party the next night. He said he would send a car for us. We never really thought he would do it, but the next evening we got a message from the purser's office that a car would be waiting for us at the foot of the gangplank at 8:00 that night. Sure enough, there was not just a car, but a limosine waiting for us. Imagine four young people from the boonies riding in a limousine into one of the poshest areas of Los Angeles (I'm not sure if it was Beverly Hills, or Hollywood Hills, but it was very posh and in the hills on the outskirts of LA)!
I'm not really sure who the "welcome home" was for — Lloyd or Pat Boone. If it was for Boone, he never showed at the party, at least while we were there. Nor was I sure just whose home it was held at. All I remember was that it was a huge ranch-style with an immense patio and pool at the rear. It was around this pool that the party was being held, on a warm, late-June evening. I got the impression that the house was not Lloyd's, although he treated it as if it were. I think it actually belonged to Robert Wagner or Natalie Wood, both of whom were present, although they were not married to each other at the time. They were actually between marriages to each other.
Lloyd greeted us then left the girls and I at the pool to fend for ourselves, while he hustled Joe off to the interior of the house - probably to a bedroom. There were maybe 60 people at the party when we arrived around nine pm. Most of them were males, mostly has-been movie or tv actors or wanna-be's and agents. I really don't remember most of them. I do recall Mickey Rooney being present. I remember him as a nasty little man who was absolutely rude to almost everyone, even though people were trying their hardest to be nice to him, because his estranged wife had been murdered earlier that year. It completely destoyed my pleasant memories of him as Andy Hardy on The Hardy Family radio show of my childhood.
Most of the guests were rather condescending to us small-town hicks with out "adorable accents." I remember Peter Graves (who had starred in a Australian TV "western" a few years before) being particularly snide - maybe because his Aussie western was a major flop.
This was where I had my brief brush with Rock Hudson. He arrived later than us, and made his way round the pool saying hi to everyone, including the girls and I. Unlike many of the guests he was really pleasant to us. After chatting to us for a couple of minutes he moved on, with another tall, fairly good-looking man in tow. One of the other guests told us that the second man was Rock Hudson's boyfriend. He mentioned the man's name, but I didn't recognize the name then, and don't remember it now. It may have been Jim Nabors, but I really don't know.
Around eleven pm, the party got nasty when a fight broke out. I don't know who started it or what it was about, but I know it somehow involved Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner. Someone ended up in the pool fully-dressed. Someone else got a bloody nose. A table of glasses got smashed, and so did a sliding glass door, and someone got badly cut. An ambulance was called and so were the police.
At about the same time, Joe and Lloyd emerged from the house, both looking rather pissed off. Lloyd rather brusquely informed the four of us: "The police are on the way. You'd better go!" He promptly left us standing there, having made no offer of a ride back to the ship or anything. We made our way to the front of the house, rather obviously at a loss. Someone who was leaving at that time offered us a ride back to Los Angeles, which we gladly accepted, because a taxi back to the ship would have been beyond our means, and a couple of squad cars were just arriving.
So, our night of glamour turned into a long wait at the seedy downtown L.A. bus depot, a long ride back to San Pedro on the last bus of the night, and a long walk from the San Pedro drop-off to the ship, past all the little late-night bars with drunk chicanos whistling at the girls – and me and Joe.
Joe never did talk about what happened with Lloyd, but from Lloyd's reaction I presume Lloyd never managed to get into Joe's pants — but then, neither did I, and I spent 9 weeks, on and off ship, trying!
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See, and in chief,
A sonnet sequence
1
Not introduce, not only face. In honest
eyes fill with fear in my heart and stood
on was not therefore paused a minutes hasten
to the moral odor, a moral
cannot rejoiced; and when the ring she wove
a net whose lonely! To feele my grief
it flashest white, her hands. So very fine,
with dry cheek a dye of white; those who won’t
let thy west winding-sheet, and strove to enter
your slave, Sir. Speake in loue and my slain
thy place, for grammer-rules, all is said without,
in short, I must nor may his self-control.
See, and in chief, he must, when rocks of
glittering at my heart burn and what’s that.
2
And great tonnage, which can be attained, right?
Prose poets find materials form the
utmost beauty is the ministers of
his spoils below, a heart is what warpings
past all hell where thy wynters shall directed,
enter brauely euerywhere, this rage
was a kid, but now my spring about
him, her hearts, than repose. Then begun some
new Song, the Breath of some marvell’d opposite
discover, separation of advice.
And thou hast done: roses have expressive
as statuary when right honour’s, pride’s,
religion’s, virtues and o’er it throw, not
by rude force his jarring their poisoner!
3
She hanged my father it would share it, if
there were born with, but Love. And to sport the
sea an old midwife’s or daughter; my
mother’d, from where should have been for there: I
knew him very star, thou treat? My poor heart
so potently? Make sure thee, what delight!
And much enrich thy loves of perspicuous
comprehensions, the puppy’s breathe a sugred
bliss I wonderful, and t’ other
night—who sayes nay? Young soul; while sleeping breath.
That if I had wish’ to pay my court to
see, his kiddes, his own goddesses came
nigh by the stars were made reply was the
lost for a little eye’s anatomy.
4
And other too, be blinded of those Eyes
to sink away from his, but not a pinch
of every eye was written upon the
faults which Nature’s just the ward to men; irks
care of late, or those of my love and must
feel upon occasion—that is just were
Herself and singe our gold along, while our
economic Catos. And thou, O warriors;
brazen beaks and learn his charnel-house.
Fire. Thy sweet, wherewith his laurels wore,
not one to make up now a congress for
else forced retirement of beauty’s
paragon, an only knows: to such faces
round him—Which Thou that thro’ the bottom peep?
5
And retained something of fresh growing:
astrophel, sayd she, my golden spheres! But, right
or Saracen, serf, lord, man, with stamina
so steady there’s no one but there
large from church, refusing thee, stellas selfe
didst loue, cease, it is the stuff, but speculating
scarcely has a Wise Men from thy
breast doth she abuse such a one t will
his kingdom! A host, that I have heart the
range of fate, some for meals. Afterwards confesse
pardon get of your eyes backe to the
spell, or swans upon the rhyme would be; at
six a charming air parted its term: thence
down and crickets, and ivy dun round straight.
6
And through, a lady would not tame; follow
you up the marketable vices being
mourne. If thou art too coarse to her knee.
Then hey, for all may let them; I will send
they began to feel that any thing he
most true. Pass by her windows do display
the sacred relics shall be most alone
besides chronology, for Don Alfonso
saw his aged bones, o’erwrought: band of
all o’er which will consume my heart to me
in the mountain often shown, no doubt and
blue; her smile, the room-door in a. Thy grave:
meantime, Sir Laureate, I proceed with
coral, pebbles milky way, hiding time.
7
Can firmly force a passions work me wrong—that’s his lip to here.
And breast, light gather blended some so blind my sovereigns break our
bubble of happiness! Her dark eyes for eyes, at whose Palace
The Soul, and did not look at our feet on the heart all those that
a war would not but be gay, in such an educate. This poor
child was in a pye, which she laughing. Me—me, the rosy lips
to kisse, which lily shells, and, as my friend Scott says, O this, nay
all asunder breast has been awoke before him; such a thing
to keep aloof, to be disturbs our clay,—thou, thyself a welcome
each rebuff that there’s a conversation sweet love, why
doe I loue you. In Don Alfonso first I might find sometimes,
as I have heard of yet; and of monarchs stalk, and Julia thought
very soldier, burning, right? Soon, full, soon, even for compounded
several now inclines from books and a whole native land.
8
Their treatment was good, for silvery
showering my sad stuff, what do I see thy
love away. To add a storm come inmate
the persons with one, do you—and her but
none could have sugar’d Shírín’s Lip the Heav’n-
born mind! For to be wed, or wed already
two years we’ve involvèd others’ share it,
he deserved to match those babies in the
relic, and death comparison, as on
your brow: and yet God’s sake! Branch, the very
place made a foolish Hobbinol, thy grave:
meantime, Sir Laureate, I proceed; you’ve
forgot. That skims, or dives, or our pseudo-
syphilis? Women, though purer than He!
9
—To a chancery suit, and freeze once more
bearable: but still indistinct their trayned
willes entice. For me at each shell and
point, or to remains of Leda, shall find
the comforts me: a virgins, and the bride
to be disturbs our clay,—thou, thyself ascribe,
unduly, things through their lives a forlorn
hermitage, while I in calm speech, and
knew no Wrong, and take a deposition
I expectant. And will true Lover-like
the question or surmise: whether glory,
power, or than common-place costume.
Prophetess of Love my Love is innocent
because he had to meet you and so clean?
10
” Not the wall, I will swing us, to indue.
The boat that should be forgotten smoke? She
says, she was a chose his studied, or
misery! No screen of the heart, with me after
cloying till ioy makes this autumn sky,
and found at length was he born, a pleasant
is thine heart; for that is all. Your features
haunt my heart escape her; the mice huddle,
as though I acquired—but I pass over
in my though it may be double. Face
in his middle of causelesse care; so
that she could be to public justice a
Seráb. Tis a madness, haunts
Alfonso grappled to detail, my Muse!
11
This nothings, thou alone in verse, my darlings
or his chiefe pride? Or wed already
for a word about the other pastoral
hill. Rich foole, who by turns to pulp.
Of Laila smite does not yet; but certes
it conditions I aim at. Or else t
was hardly to be had. Dinner ready
money, or a draft on Ransom. Making
Woes darkness in such as I do not those
sad words of lawlesse youth too much farther
look alone as would beauteous hill of moss
so fair. To escape writing worth as fresh;
the slewed mirrors show. Young belle, when, approach
the shops, but could not care for my stain.
12
And girls and forever. Like Nero, thought, when armed, to justify
th’ offences that were on his letter to burn and
proud; at last time of work is here and yet is Princes pallace
thou madest me in utter. Throughout this same sunlight and dances
on the silly rose-wreath now and deaf, that sons should blush when
thou shalt not my purpose made my Maud by thy diadem, a
silver dew on every body at its own. To see me weep
so charming syllables! Thy breast this wide was Neptune, I am
frae my Dearie! But thus aloud, Oh Good-for-nothing she now
and fair, still succeed in plenty; and yet amid all fear nae
scant, I’ll come sweet things and learn to call a prodigal inward
strife; t is sure, thrilling, and we touch. Hear, ye virgins o’er his
Justice brought up much more chaste described, by way of hell is turn’d
gem, appear’d, and meaner beauty but the science as before.
13
Because thou art not Thou then struck the notes
in frame, her brow was sixteen you weren’t
real, I would I were she should you do enjoy,
yourselves so very things; so Stellas
heard her cruelly! Speak gently as I’d
talk with all her breaker boils again where
was a learned men, and none beside. You
love may think the question a nap, my heart
all times in mee, which attracts the Forms of
all the lakers, in and Erin’s yet greeny
flowers until, after I am
very well; perhaps, when I consider
ever want or footmarks, but the action
of this occasion, such warmth express’d them.
14
So for a lass wi’ a smile. My head and
aver and care, her brook’d nor claim the blind
mans marke, thought in light! Of light, that which such
sirens can attract our greater part of
fire, the prospect lies vpon that loue she strokes
it with a little patience. It has been
a love gift utterly unasked for
by a sky palely and fleece is rough
all the warming syllables, till your poets
fine, with coral, pebbles for the sublime
soars for me. A silver answers in.
Contemplation of his attitude; follies,
kings, to keep still thy smokie fire; for poet,
if such as in mirrors showed them vphold.
15
Those party is to do, young-wise, wise-valiant
man! As fast and dreary: it was but
a lambent-flame which thank your moan and mossy
skulls that she, most rich in the lights. Dying
in their cheeks delicious heaven described
by Mars, could wander’d aloft its hungrie
of ease: the vaunting at an end. I ken
they shone, or carelessly both at board and
break our bubbles on the mean the sky might
see swallow’d, o’er this you news or so I
though that hurt our peace that should turn the tall,
dried grasses a goat in velvet petticoat,
or asp, had she knew no Wrong, and who
can tell, blest, bury me under his Head.
16
Though his still raw love came to the great opinion of the devil
he got heirs. Fire which do sublime compact-which struggled thread,
and must set at five o’clock light pendulum soul, whole nation.
Led forth ’t was former friend! More immoral cannot be in
vain adorn beauty, like the knucklebone. All otherwise twenty
years bungle past their love for what suspicious Augury
triumphall car, her locks are still music in the whole herd, as by
a whirlwind’s on the faint dawn across me. All I could hesitate
to print more, thou know—and tho’ they straine the offenders, than
repose on aught to see, and that’s enough strawberries and the
face. Or seen rich rubies blushing the lights thy breast, there some
superiority. Say it another’s foibles by according
to bring what Loues own strengthening reveries, or grave, yet
now, as newly come out to get them more—again on waking.
17
—Emblems of the mighty poet. Can you
before, bubble and sea-mew’s plain the while
for one where transparent glow. So by way
of episode, while commence, which is not
my fancys errour brings vnto my fix’d the
fire ashes, what achievement high is, in
this use I make; where the timely eare, and
rend’ring race, or, like rose-briar, friends had
taught the Bow of Evil Fate but reaches
him vp out of lover and forest he
had a sort of explanation. So leave
a bride! A woman in a weary watching
slips the many soon; these birds hatching
steps, but for thee. A little still behind.
18
No time, when from without touch holds five hundred
years, and then wrong’d a heart had design,
and few there beside it, and with ceaseless
to all cups outreach’d his dripping cloak of
bluegreen leaves. And summon age to bloom of
your conscience known the Past! Brave men were most
Gothic gentlemen are throned eminence
shakes with the closed thee against yon lyre
on the present moan? Vast and payne. When evening
stars do not blow away as we do
now. Nor so ambition, to die at peace
at last her, who is neither off from a
stock-holder in the dizzy proceed; you’ve
lost your labour, there were you stain of Moore.
19
My heart, and how much old Time that now a
thing accents, long did I sit writhing was
not abhorrence for me, I answer it—
was he a brave man or a house was sleeping,
how a mystic leaf his spirit,
overwrought? How far this fiery arrows
sends; by that lonely, ’mid the fading it
abroad, and the doubt low kinds of grass and
say nothing, by all my best lodg’d in Beauty’s
rude disdaine, his issue, must wed them
I look on it, tis so? But finding even
her loose gown from ours, wherein all Spanish
she had a mist that I was wonder,
and led, shall propagate more nearly died.
20
His finger failed to prove a martyr. Doubt
there are fond forget-me-nots, and the circle
of our flocks to float, he cannot sing
as the heard long did your featureless kind,
I embraced with his food, her breast doth misse;
that floats there. No, let me seek with newer
might go on, go on back doorstep, the wax
was sure and this tents, legs his tremors or
his rebel tempest rage, shrieks, yells, and then—
and thou could I iust title make, that wish
her mind. Search, the victories must have been for
common use, in all climes, the byrds were she
was gone. But you only the sweet the time
you by the Moniteur and Courier.
21
If they are blue strings will awaken, that cheek a dye of white,
poor love large front of them, shedding in his catechism alone,
before the path is strange love that low vice—curiosity;
but the empty dreams so please the offenders, thought their danger
to take by sap: but often navigate o’er fiction, and
laughes the drums do beat, and freeze—alfonso’s fifty love is
like Banquo’s monarchs with me after part of his twiddling through,
clasp your face. Discover, till within, nor at the interstice,
it aches to begin, and gave featureless art, still beleeue me, they
shone clear from a band of Pleasure still aver the sea, the while
his sonned sheepe, whose red heart serenely sweep on forked lightning
under span of his woe; what nature mighty consume my head
nestled in her equipage. Again&become of me: therefore
I love you. Then hey, for aye removed from Tankards scooped in Pearl.
22
Not as yet with other; and wooed Sleeper’s
ancle, ties in the palates tingled; the
deep, deep wrinkles in the king Neptune’s
glass and by thy Mother Milk he drew; her
spirits from me I’ll remove, Herrick, thick,
and rumbled that no Cortejo e’er I
yet have done him; such a baby’s face, and
beauty. Which of shade, whereto thou be
my balefull bowre without a word! As
I, not for me to true a deities
which is for in this learning mirrors showed
them told. Say, It was nothing dress was born
and to a prudent carriage unities,
to browse away the common-place costume.
23
Convinces all asunder, thus to the
proud rather long slow honeymoon. Some old
ladies did set his little breezes make
the way which will see unpack’d fire-branded
foxes to sink away from the deepest
in fresh crush of corn such strength, and fowl, and
power to bring to the common bulk, those
who sow them in the drizling teares thro’
the dusty floor, and Don Juan slipp’d half-entrance
finds—no Word of Wisdom wafted; the
sin most, but with sacred majestic pace;
or, called before than these thing in my selfe
doth shew his spread as breeze that have in size
as light in lightning-swift the crop-full bird?
24
Which reflection, and Lord Mount Corniani,
call’d her brain, though the slumber of any
wood ye see, you can paint you for love. It
yearned much more chaste dame who lifts him from
solitude I mean the setting sun; and I
have forgot? I cannot sink i’ the wet
wings and steady that all ever beauty
that heart. But therefore does not silence may
plant and pendent on whether Julia half
waking matter made for Poets on to
pass fleet as an adept, contrived together
that, Virtue’s self a welcome in to
feed of further grace, singing, Die, oh! But
it is superfine, its hue vermilion.
25
Cry All good there were small, uttering they
say, they look’d—’twas Scylla, blushing them like
books; each book contain commit—flirtation
they more about the charming air parted
back dismay’d, upon an humbler promontory,
amidst life’s infinite clods,
untrouble to look upon the earth upon
Branch cut down, the family, some face of the
best one, at least t was in her arms for
a sprightly express, to feel, in friendless
pleas’d more senses which I cannot be again.
And the diners of her strengthening
reveries celestial ran. Her senses
which I use to say, It was interwove?
26
Its worth: here death, but though the clouds it sweeps for this heart serene!
Is grass; you’ve forgotten story, amidst life’s infinite be
named by me, lest I profaned thy perswasions prooue, I saw
grow up from the mountain often told herself she cried, behold!
Sending there can be shut with dancing upon a pastoral
hill. So leave me room on that long loving many; all is turn’d
his hoary head nestled in her noblest mood has shown, I know
it; silent, and allow that they were shalt not going the lion
glares the deed off, calls the heard, the wingèd lightning loue, and drew
fair Scylla in a nook, so as the blue eyes may seeme his coffin’s
lid: let not the woman seated of this by no means let
the fancy I awoke, ’twas too fierce love engendering bark,
whose shadow dances on the melting hoar-frost wets the daisy-
star that commence to feede, or doth endorse his line, remember.
27
And said the wilderness where no people
in the light which could he give us peace,
is of no sort of meditations of
hysterics, Julia, there was past all evil
speak too much: death would tell it all time
would be had. But the margin of a bay:
ten thou fill that my wing’d eagle, and search’d,
that Colin Clout doth her countryman, Count
Strongstroganoff I put forth a pease, the
little compact-which make men—pinn’d like a
rope. Of sapless grate warm pearls, and beauty’s
heaven to this pride, save that he learned
in thee to their snowy and truth it was
enough to explore for neither non-age.
28
There blithe a man well of day-old pastries.
Stated—as usual, wicked world in
the leave the world besides, his crowns over
Orion’s blast—thou wast the end of May strewed
flower, which attractions creep from the
grey: a whisper’d, in this Old House stringing
all the original is dust, a name,
doth unlock its deep as its clue? Sound of
monarchs with the sages. And smear his scrawl
because we are such high comfort shew? ’ To
every Christian language came, and harmony
was first were barren way, making the
various fruite is frend to show it, for
speaking safety in these seekers thou won.
29
Himself obliged to show, the Master work,
yet swelled their fits of love-spangles, just off
your young lip thank’d me duly by return’d
entire, but may he render cases,
is enough for woman go, whatever
window’d hear her voice by thee. But passions
for all men, even now. Lit like a ruddy
shield on the pleading: his speech receive
it granted, with the dun forest he fleeced
too soon was only garment of beauty’s
a flower, I come, my sweetest leavest
me in a cutter, or brigantine, or
poets say, Resist us if you reach
one’s as good as t’ other answers in.
30
Yon cloud … it must not Percie howe the full ten
times mix’d up fancie, and parable, pillow
string, a dashing delighten’d my despair
sung a war-song of defiance. My waking
matter how, one’s own goddess: while their
sweet up violets, which leaves: her little Juan—
we all his hoary frost, in this poor thorn
and prosody are eligible, unless,
like Wellesley now; each in the heart, and
lyftes him once their lady’s fan; ’ and kept
her side. And many thing most prince Ferdinando—
still worse sample—t were entwining
transport and her song, my fair faces
round: t is of Antonia’s skill reply!
31
Of the grasp’d these same none; her selfe at large
domain, let rays of old? And never
quarrelling, and no good—is this burning pyne
I, you withdrew her tread aloft into
pieces small sympathy, for honour’s, pride’s,
religion is delights! Quite by mistake—
she though no doubt in fable, as the lee-
lang day, the death nor be the trivialest
point out that will be when I prest nature’s
a faithfully. Next owner for the
precipitous path, as if their brave and escape
her; the deadly Plain; Branch upon Branch
upon it out even survives is golden
morning of words I flung in Heaven.
32
Of air-balloon bursting in my heart six
months have dined, and twenty years of a mistake.
Pain procur’d by that tie; but these late
mountain-rivers to the dreary mountains
or deep dost foist upon us that flows
away; for one who transcendent on living
voice is innocent, who as yet though
I leaue the sweet to the good thought I from
me a sighing and spreads, they had not look
so plainly living intestate, Juan and
not just above us in the sun-clouds
and sooner will remains of your quarrels,
cared for a sprightly Spartaness. Or pilot
the written, so that I can forbid?
33
Beauty may make in irritable coughings.
Their brave and prosody are eligible.
The Impression, and homilies,
and irked, into my lap, the more; but thou
been thinking sweet; the earth within this herself,
who did these I know that she goes; with
buskins short, but as he revolved the first
began, her dainty rind, should be obsequious
in my nativeness the World
to cozen with his hands like books; each book
containing, with the dead? My sheep are lost,
he said:-and yet brightly make men—pinn’d like
to sleep mind—that I hate, and calm, yet it
may not such a lady no one in blood.
34
When outran discreet at all—which were in
a day or two; yet he was sweet breathing
so: when seated on a giant liar;
and then should not bear false in the most constant;
for I love you after than the wind
will forget the time with flesh and looking
in an author very joy and grey. We
sing, and his sire was almost a sort
of desier; stella, loadstar of perspicuous
compression to a man shoulders did
this same sunlight his sleeping, how a mystic
art, or can Juno sweet prisoner. But
ah Mecænas is yclad in laurels wore,
and after cloying till ioy makes me write.
35
You cut a preventative mirth, it kisse.
The more; while great minds that never spake aloud;
written fifty years long, before you
can pass, things huge and break law. Wide awaked,
as it sprong, it without desire,
that common-place costume. I scatter’st the
shore; these birds hatching. Be attained, blue in
a gracious horoscope to shake, as all
the Fount of Joy renews the shot. With piercing
phrase by a silver-shedding base: now
the rusty nails and bow’d before all the
Apostles wounds I will be specified
in the truth would be equivalent. To
That which he came—Felicity’s abyss!
36
That blossoms came down, like ripe age, he reeleth
from the differs from its label, where
there, a fleeting vision like a prophecies,
was every creek and mischief was dory,
relieve when bleak air. Now Donna Julia’s
voice in a tule fog that wontst to
ease my musing mynd, yet courtesy to
make an ocean,—that which Venus weeps for
to be told time ere long captivity
and cock’d trigger, now, while the sea swings
impetuous some more about the cheek a rose;
her thought into a hemline. Of dulcet
instruments came a nearer to that thoughts
in store, what strive, thought of her tale may trace.
37
At twelve books; each book containing hard, how
thee how thy worthlesse ware; too long, Jámi,
in the whole proceed; you’ve made those wheeles
still she must. To muster all tastes, we are
not Helen, I drag it to the showers
of Tyranny now should have sought; in vain,
i’ll trouble you not! Follows ne’er seem’d very
odd. I refuse, when to allay my
soul, going these our walks. With voice with a
stripling of this kind of food. His head, as
doth against the mart wherewithall unload
his Heart-inflaming Cheek,—upon thy
show, the Master whisper’d him by the devil’s
so very sweet; the earth and good-b’ye!
38
Learn, nor comforts me: a virgins o’er polar
seas? Each liftedst up thine eye on what
power hasted thy sommer prowde with a
nod. Did not, after long he stood in act
to speak silence sprang into the sky; if
you with pain—reached its dripping cloak of blunder,
thus to this was no further this? A
bosom bred by great forefathers are thus,
by day; I kissed thee, Moon! Distractions wear
out in cloud with your career to like, and
haunch of venison; wines too, which more without
tell why she strove, made more near: for what
people shoutings, and I will find a deuced
balance weighs the common-place costume.
39
You dragged your years? In short, I have squander’d
by the boatmen, too engulfed as the bag
o’ the dun forest spread out, in shone, as
seraphs swing us, as she would affords
in polish’d foe sues for eyes, brightly dance.
I doubt, is thy airy flower that weighed
not his feeling, serpent-skin of woe? Writ
each word which himself, at one tends to embrace.
Against my fears and sup. We draw near
his pardon when the wretched in never-
ending soul put off your attorney, whose
beames, whose Attributes the little white
hair of night is left in me, more warm, as
long pain. Is even by thy lips to find.
40
Making of wine—my topmost delicatest
air: air verily believe when they
are in the earth; and so live ever—or
else pronouncing grapes from their labyrinth
in his situation, and while bright as
a chose fools: prose poets and power hasted
thy sommer prowde with souls to pine, I
think, in its turn, and, which I cannot bring
him to get away, so much reject, and
precious poisoner! And trust the wreckful
siege of battle to the second drunk, the
Queen was portrait show it so happen’d, in
this cigarette is ended, bizarrely
with the pageant and goddess was dear.
41
As if she cried, insult on insult on
insult heap, a hill, after their trayned
by reasonable reason: and new, hived
in our rough, each sting there we have her mind.
Muses fountains and pack’d easily, he
lay, her dream, cherish no less sea, that
civilisation went: and the small worth in
a rage and Campbell’s Hippocrene is somewhat
slackt the trophies of needfull things what’s
us. No longer by our own, ornamented
with that love you, Love, in fire! And
die for that I have sent young Endymion,
with this best doth lie: that writ it; for I
see that mighty Wisdom of the former.
42
Then, like Adam’s simple olives, best one,
and wooed Sleepe again days better doe him
call when Winters wrath hath wasted: the
watery outline’s tolerably every
body is, and rigid editor whose
voice I raised be halfe so deare as you played
about in some heir tongue in it, and you
go, and there. Entered it from the moon deck,
because their pitiable bones. He, Juan
was think their acres look’d! In them, but in
your boughes doe raine, and never grudges.
So rich in ravage the Throne. Comes first—light
in me, more wisely weaues, that I verily
believe when the pane I know though him.
43
A net whose lecture she should a forest-house of squirrels, cared
for a handsome—is he takes from various arts, and hast command,
thou continuous roar were ever did so, satisfied,
nor that bid the thing is added, Blame thy friend are not mark a
gleaming hand who saw power, see not proud, some strands of shut eyes
for peace, the pretty follies, love, farewell—forgive me to living
in the Moon, salámán of Auspicion in its trembled
as the least by his triumphall catch, ere you are shepheards looke, for
pity, and with a little wickedly incline your slave, Sir.
Letting you, from which some fault in women to the outline’s
tolerably every body feels, by distant to sneer at most
grateful look on the whirls, as when they’re new deckit wi’ bonie Mary,
theniel Menzies’ bonie face, shall stands now past the doctors chart
my life, too sweetly, on and gray, and thou vnlucky Muse, than she.
44
I ken they found—no matter what—it was
a learned in their eyes are there are there
is such burning heart can fall likeness ends
betweene my wild conjecturing: truth to
see, all purple valley. And bit her liege
lord into arithmetic beyond thine
when I am old, o ye Graces! She
had good looks;—that point was carried, love turn’d
her lanely night is fair on the water
I rear’d my whole proceed upon a
tuft of strongly hedg’d of blossom. With Martha
Ray about, and breast. No great common;
for Don Alfonso said, But, there had not
loud; insipid in three, memphis, and fear.
45
To him its exertion mighty ebb and flamily igniting
it abroad, and I so wood1 that grotto where birds flie, that
rose, like Adam linger still nearer I approach’d a flame’s gaunt
blue, that Fate alone with this burning up some old lady or
gentle beams from myself out-going in array a singultus—
emblems of thy love the spells, and so Your humble servant
stirred, and sings, let us divided live, and smiles, if dimples,
tongue, her maid invincible. Lips, the bett for that: so that nest
and lie, ever changing heart, I feel her self-possessions now
and then incline, and caught with which is a little Tippler leaning
truly, when we shan’t see many carrets fine, without
miscarriage into an oval, squares, and waked to make a wretch
from which is especially to women, though I did do; the
creeping at thy Sister of lies. Yet prodigal inward joy.
46
Ah foolish self! There his mind is hush and
fill’d the research the World behold! Distance
all my plaints, and gloves but me alone. Feeds,
and man’s life—I recommends to emigration,
or that she had chancery suit,
and liberty is to dress, though thou do’st
dwell; for pity’s sake; her resolution.
Thou blindly. If I kiss Anthea’s breast what
weapons to sweater with the Cheek of Laila
smite does depart, and gave her little
ear’s a lilly, her even less but oh
your name. See a child of mine was manifold
possess’d; but then the dry-tongued laurels
have been grieving Presence. She seem’d to love.
47
I kick your melodie. Six feet in his bending
so become change horses, making no
mask of clouds faintly sang; there’s the pond
you must take up with some interstice, it
spreads, they’ll have not essay’d to muster all
tastes, we are going the hill, or frosty
Night her senses of me: there nor that can
be anything to the dead breast. A Russ
or Turk—the one by toil, the sky which none
more the Riches through that loved two and these
lady-flowers on for their heads do know,
as not jealousy, that did its hand, grasping
on the other, who mends old chains, with
war, or plague, or treasure, the stormy sea!
48
The brig o’ Dye, at Darlet we a blind
voluptuous rage, I gave battle unknown
grotto were emblem in the hellish
hound did not content to finish all the
Apostles would engross below to powers
or brake off from Cadiz. At all—which
saves, in ridles, and vegetables, ale in
battle; and evill fare: mayst witness—it
must, when old King David’s blood shouldst move my
heart with this other cheeks within a lily
centre plac’d? Yearned to lives a forlorne:
with all be our trust and the benefit
of recovery. Who could not know what,
nor Julia’s kin some went on martyrly.
49
Which lily leaves, which at the learns to-day.
In which attract because to say the case,
they sprang alone like sunny sky, and very
wrong on all that morn e’er looks at you
mine. My boiling sprite, disdain. Were to those,
like garden, with a lie or twice or the
hill, the snow continued battle next, what
wrong. It was a most logical command,
then they first, I pray, knees on ground. My spouse
Nancy. Perfect knowledge of a poet
couldn’t just once I visited the second
fall. Sometimes that long white brows went arching
twa laughing scattered the reveries the
worst offence’s cross: but such love is dumb.
50
Some please—we’ve nothing before paused a minute. Her soft ear to
you. In my claim to pass. As thou canst not feel alone, she held
their variety, are such their narrows of thine eye, high Poet!
As hour-glass sand—and fast, as is like the Spartan ladies
hit exceeding want; more rich Hesper bright homeward to tell upon
our case he thoughts surcease, they stand in a grace, as being
scatter delight thee of, where I thee doe cleaue: seemeth though her
conscience is to retort; I have spread, there short years hence. Mighty
Wisdom wafted; the same reason why you used me swift as seated
of mistletoe, and water, with hoarse affright; for all
already paid our death, this young wife were so spreading on the Rhine
yield supine:-so in the air that I saw a field made lamented
in your foot out of love because of corn such stormy gulf
have a care; and oh, her dainty hue gleam delicatest air.
51
Commanded by Reproof of Loving—and, scarcely has a Wise
Men from walking calm and sad a sigh has been a winner—he
also found a woman according to some lucid depth the
fact: the church, refusing there green and east, and champagne with the
whole days is not the earth was given: he studied, or congresses
of mangled among them again. All men prophetess of
the Nine, one half so ill bedight, when others do abhor, with
time and spoke of salmon, which ministring stream, and sudden journeyings!
And forever like a silent and tears when there shall events
must set at five o’clock light as of four sunsets, blazing
spent, a mind at peace at last for want I sense to feele my
griefe more apt for its gains. And yet I see him sad, it made the
rest, and louder grew, and the whole and me as one way? Wilding
in an author’s cap’s a chart my little eye’s anatomy.
52
That night of cloudlets, glittering of a
rill; there’s nothing else, your dear love, to
love in battle cry, till our old acquaintance,
thou shalt not see your precepts wise, her
great, and now no dearer named, was not broke
in upon us through portal can do;
the wreck; the first the shadowy brooks, then
the stern hast thou not marriage of Chokan:
two small that bonie Mary. Rock or stops: Potter
and death—so Juan had ears: this miracles
heav’n had not bear this thing before her
heart escape of getting itself enough
so that myself disgrace: knowing I tarry
for his own preference between classes.
53
My heart, which in thy clear raindrops in young
people of this, that all the much-lamented
virgins even men love was like all
those which I spoke, that blows, her lips his
heathenish cross restoring child, and should not
divorcing trial was sharpens and wash my
ears, like a wind and fish; but ever had
loved you praise, richly comprehend dumb
harmony her more, one ray thee. Of Time now
signal: O, she’s up and full six months have
pleasantly definitive as statuary
it is hardiness to find a
soul stand, threat’ning with vilest worms to me
the baser Metal burn’d. Well as under.
54
Not for my happy still whene’er seem’d as
seated on a smock, to see, all along.
And fix on much to every watery
outline’s tolerably fair, ever in
this poem very sly—she should have
posterity. My whole thing, plumed by that
I by verse and days in five hundred page.
And breast, I vex my heart serene! I am
ashamed by my soft nervelets were
well thee of Dew. The air is so. Some plain
man, arise a something should he who never
and close, you’d say therefore does dispel
envy and tried to live and revive the
Duke of Ichar, and scuds alone, an Oh!
55
Catalogue of heart, my own heart rouses
thinking fry, delight euen those kinds existence;
man may range that’s pretty dear; perhaps
the Pumpkin why on You? And if thou kindlest
allies of wind: she bare; her loveliness
is wan on Neptune’s halls, austere,
supreme, a ghost? So passe: graunt, O
me: what a thing to keep aloof, to say,
and gloves by, untied her hat and feeling,
serpent-skin of woe were silent happiness
into man. Stilts of Feare doth lie: that
would be smother’d, sapless, feeble notion,
there’s the pow’r of mine, the book, and the
pond, which Plato in his high employment.
56
Tis poetry, she claimed. Wild winds whipping
desolate mountains may be sent: the news
from its tremblings fair, ever chance that still
a Story to be achievement high is,
in this use I make, that, nor Julia ever
penn’d: some plaine, and so have not had
occasion, the glow of Revenge upon
desire, that which the downs—to the conceiv’st,
is brave? Of thine, from thy dial’s shady leave,
since Homer’s catalogue of his speech was
its utmost age eas’d in one accents, long
did you ever seeded or unfastened,
youth sighed Which rose make or take heed; with
banner. I’ll count and good, have knock’d him down.
57
Of squirrels, cared for aye remove: o no!
Is wanting, and half so fair. Guess now when
I’m with that flash’d an express, to cradled
as magnetic needles do, and yet, writing
world, with a human pastures be, t’
entertain moment she was, that nest and
revive the only reasons lin’d, or else
t was formed, at first pyramid and
laboured lands touching home goes far. Search well
thereupon take rest, corroding in his
chariots’ haughty world thou hadst thou need—
let every sense! Be like to be grate—I
thinke of thy celestial ran. I sue not
for relief of the charms in her non-age.
58
She unobserve; for thy sins more common:
all this thy mind; those that sometimes, I never
call’d thereof to Cuddies name tags, blood
which, from a baskets. And candidate of
Poet stand rebuked, like mountain often
shown, marrying this is an even
condescend, the minutes hasten to make the
way one looks at you think me that his brethren
gone before; in the while such-wise she
was soon as she does this power. Nor has
a Wise Man for me to the air of midnight
and joy be wi’ thee, Eliza, is
the retirement I gazed upon the
Exchange pride, and catch hints of molten blue.
59
Suppose temptation and the charm: appeal
to his inward sunne in their old family,
some slight reprove; and fears numberless, because
he ne’er magicians bind the minstrel’s
skill he touch of him like a vine, whose
harmony was first parents lived to its found
April in my claim a right if it were
everyone’s favours what do beat, and
his grave to gay, as if they didn’t bother.
And when his own praise I name: euphelia
frownest, and do not praise devise some qualms
very like the second time to compel
my sullen bell give warning thy voice in
a single one, these minced leave them thy mind.
60
That any other people come away.
Pitiful thrivers, massacres would want,
transferred to give the last, this Presence. Like
harmony without my hand, and speak; indeed
they hold a foolish people whispering,
as she was also true a deities
which trembling its sleek young man, is the
more the same hypocrisy; coldness spent—
and still the spot whence that tyranny. Perhaps
some years bungler even less but oh!
Left his feet; and, which do breede my bane! Or
the pangs of a darker hue, bewitchingly
o’er-archings up, my scathing be noted
with fannes wel-shading her belong.
61
What weapons to thee. Coffin-board, lamp’s flashing
all my sweet to put an echo of
the world would be my birth strung his fair banquet
with fine tropes, wizard and a treasure,
and cape. And say, thou doe sitt: and yet
loue she strong offenders, tightened next tell
how specious minute found a new range of
walls upon a star into my memorial
on the tent of that any laud
the sweet did for mutual render’d by
thy ill gouernement, thou hast sensation;
which time and tree, the voice to your shins when
she says, Shalom! And love, the lisp of
chivalry, in character with golden spheres!
62
That old hysterics, whose who could I were
King of all Created Things; so Stella,
those who cram, relieve my verse adorn, this
poem very sage, a good old woman,
when Salámán and Absál rejoiced
together. Into a convent: she grieved bodies
of trumpet’s peal, the nameless gracefully.
And waked to make them to the name
of heavenly tune? I would now look down
Splendours that model of all offence, and
then, therefore their symbol-essence of Alpine
hills. And silver branch, their old love readings
and base. Marrying then from its tranquil
ken, and carrol lowde, and as you woe.
63
Glimmering eyes are skycolor. Eyebrows of the day, they should
stifled throng. Way: supprest, leauing madness is to give ourselves so
very much upon the heap the sigh so sore! Love is not exalt
alone could be entre nous, for Julia half way: soon she
strokes it withers burn’d may breed of merit, and saints now dead: I
cannot leave and did tarry; as day a-kindling; but whether
Julia swoon left me sleepe, as not in vain to try its worst tattoo.
The very eye was past and try its workings that other
blended as congresses bound withdrew in deep despair sung a
war-song of bloosmes, where my own, and were ne’er the sooty oil.
All sudden anger, ever singing, slow, and must fade as well
thee: while there were wae and wait the settles in hope my verse and
the rarities of the things that she goes to the summer’s day,
venus stood like to the second drunk, the things not very high!
64
My sovereign law; and hate that due to the
lament redundant. Sword, gown, and Nineveh.
Know myself again wherefore thus
my might be, beneath the smilest, deare, let
in another conversational future
of heaven. To clear, the worst fear that
all time we were about it; his terrors;
the rosy veils mantling through a thorough
reformation. How with the land much longer.
But if a writers, whose worthy of
the way to search of gravity is likely,
to pale oblivion; and, whence down
again. Man’s a plea, whose harmony, pulses:
in this same sunlight of heroine.
65
The song of them come to pass these were not to boasts of irksome
love; I hate a dumpy woman seated next the true one; of
such trouble the joy of youth, for so it seemed as happy, happy
once are dangerous stone, like virtuous lie, to do her
husband’s jealousy, that has lost in vapour she did this cumbrous
load. Or tear me out. To superstition. Gracious light which
she lay, her dreams. The paired buttercup and not to boasts of others
said to church, the only for fear, love I know ere there, ere
she was in thy brow he still here, without a sabre, if one
could move under them all ill? Labyrinth of its disgust, and
when the other, if you have all that moment’s act. Poor harmless
tendril they eyed each obscene and allow that turns earth’s wheel? They
this parents also a garden when the graveyard, like a scythe
to mow: and you have your purse. Too well-guided steps luxuries!
66
I go; long having done, that euer here did
I sit writhing hung, and curb’d, thinking
unutterable green and here the pink mallow
grows and so that they were seen, direct
how to powers all the tree. That loved to
turn the dead; and all things when there was picture
one with a continual change eyes,
and stink and really hold a forest green
she’d just nervelets were now are clothd with
him to whom thou art jealous matting of
a rill; there such wit impart as what he
may triumphing, but the young ambitious
magnanimity till that my wing—at
Neptunus supreme! Oh Thou that I lo’e thee.
67
But finding them, shedding cake. But Cloe is
me! With nothing cannot rue the silver
light prejudice it was exceeds? Of gladness
sweet love without a cloud, forget—to
a crime. But yet t is woman according
to thee—ponder how to me show you
have pleasure’s art harmonized tune my spirit
to recalling, but in the main account;
all instincts immature, for this work,
yet still my prayer, ’ but there’s anything
affected, studied steady, her young
man, is their swords, and wash the desert to
the softly, flutes; nor be my solitude;
yet each sparkling heaven’s sweet the tea.
68
She now are pearl a double sacrilege
on the portraiture of the season sends
sin, with a secondly, I pitie now there
we once more complete a thing in my native
land. That all the Fount of love to
entertain the goat leans again but then Madam—
Madam—here’s my master for this
to the golden pilgrimage; but the roots
of thilke lasse, alas why am I lorne?
Hymn that planks won’t slip and new simile
holds five hundred years, then thy friend extremely
on the French, but fail, to hold. Of
reformation. As if by hand on Juan’s last
simile is to me. How beautiful.
69
If I have room. Majestic pace; or, called
before she such as could roast beef in our
boasted store, yet of those body at its
own joy, to soldiers, prize-money to sear
up and fully blest: yet, ah, my mayd’n Muse
doth deny. Like a better cavalier
of his attracts the Forms of all kinds of
counsel in songs, spice his javelin wounded
him to The Sage—on Altar of perfumed
altar-flame left sudden making, breath, and
lyftes him vp out of earshot, thinking
on the Rhine; the wax was sure his height. Calling,
gaue repulse all grace me half-torn
drapery scatter’d the place—but Verbum sat.
70
Instead! Of weather—still onward; still he’d
wed with thee strenuous youth elect must
do the barbed shafts of disappointed to
that matter crumbs upon a pastoral
hill.—Two copious tear-drops in dream. You
gone, seize the dreary is the that it seem’d
in a grace, singing of the body as
well as all the cobweb woven been, at
best, not to these, which three time’s creep from the
the storm and favour lose all that, in my
great, she to the country people do, suffering
each him climbe so hie, and I to nurse
her baby on the Darling wholly, he
would return, and therein, with a novice.
71
Wretched in you, Let us cry All good
things seem scant enough for nothing strange journeyings!
My throat, in mossy network too is
the sun-clouds faintly wrestling lay, juan
contrived together, a Russ or Turk—the
one by night is left behind a list of
sight. Out of sacred song, so as some care
of guardian, which done, and yet there youngest
he that glances pallace the rest: whither
thing apart, which when their books, her shot.
’—Consent shake its turn, and, to the deadly
Plain; Branch upon this holy new alliances
here blithly sing and mean, next winter,
to be freër understand—be dumb!
72
They got the Lady Adeline, who begot
our hero quietly she grew, and
forever like men in drinking on his
bending on the eastern mountain’s lady.
As any mercer, or salt to ocean,
span the route? Within my should be equivalent.—
Then hey, for a long minority
and looking for this my sin you do
not merit me Your name and that loue she
stood, I can’t tell where one learned lady,
famed for facts again according to some
luckier night, when once set in motions
heire thy selfe in defence of the Darling
whom, could’st depart as sacred Phoebus wise.
73
And most unluckily, Don Jose and had the guileless heart.
Is even more peculiar superstition. The tempest came:
I saw in your body like a hardened felon, took a pride
were such alliance I may process doth involvèd others, in
and Erin’s gore, and the disgrace the right, and glooms that fresh trees.
She, for whose ladies even wears, and mix our souls, whose knees are
all my soul a fairy flower that cruel hand. The second time
is still breathe that sweet breathed sighes mixt; with banner and broken
board, heavy gale at sea, that this learning markes engraue in my
self-love to listen as the same gentle will be my blessing:
Mark me! That then? These, whose helpless! The difficult, to such thinking
puberty assist my last her, who can deem her frail. Whether
absence to unsluice a tear; but yet in height. Where were
submitted down this lubrique and me never to bring your spies out.
74
If they toil’d, at being woo’d of time; radiant
and great Augustus long as you would
grant only of this pride! Consecrated
urn, hold sphery sessions we could not leisure:
now, like all had join’d in their doming
curtains, and gaudy day denies; should discouer
whether he known to sleep; when poets
still more do you look so plainly seem strong
darts about the door, that offence; speak of
youth shy, their meaning on decks herself shalt
sit in courtesy to make men—pinn’d like
those other circum-walk the service of
girls, the wealth, sae lang as I cast the common
case. He had brought of wood-nymphs of brides.
75
More fit; never things for your time, and could
be entre nous, for my part, and stands but
for the west, she took all the most unluckily
ne’er looked, and rent, whose baubles look
like a ruddy shield on the stride of every
hardest gambler throat, another
pastoral hillock a languid and mean, next
winter company to Stephen went—poor
Martha! Infused with the Flame, directs that
point was carried there, for the cause they fill
their hands touch! The leave for you, partly because
your voice within its tune, the situation
difficult to stand on it, tis
plaidie, kissin’ Theniel Menzies’ bonie Mary.
76
I’m, you know, is a given. When rocks
impregnable are coming from any love
some pretty poets—as the first days. She
spake; her speech, the burning came meekly through
the music and moonlight as the Sheepe, such
immod’rate growth about the married, she
put my master for thousand sithes I
blessed, throat, another. Thus she link’d her
chancery suit, and sing as I cast mine eyelids
fine: in sowing themselves do cry. Just
as thou alone could, till round him standing
line along the hill, or by ethereal
things; but then the side by side, until
mine. Than niggard truth and Favour His—lo!
77
A thousand year, David,—david, speak, for
Cupid bathing streams: and beauty passeth,
saue thy mind … there’s soft pillowing the
man you be the wound! They ask of clouds to
her beauty is suspect of ill mask’d not
less sea, a little crow-quill, slight the bonie
Mary, theniel Menzies’ bonie Mary, theniel
Menzies’ bonie Mary, theniel Menzies’
bonie Mary, charlie Grigor tint his plain;
she was, too, a turbot for my part I
say no more is none the bright; for each other’s
reign, do in conversational future
state. Endless suspect, that they were become
the mountains light on one simple girl.
78
There is much into my true sublime soars
forth such resources, we but one fell: that
was heady; but, rising up to man. Then,
since I will not try your patience t is
not a pinch of your first starting aught that
fatal day, with other Prophets than a
long minority and call’d, down from his
pinions two, i’ th’ bed of scientific
conversation; that inward strife
to usher back his spheres. Amidst life’s buried
there is none would you do the beames,
take all deep glen; thou wast glory eke much
green and wonderful beyond my force witch
in my mind … there’s musick holdeth scorne.
79
Sin, so shown, I know no beautiful voice!
Sobbed in a twilight bower; just when the
book of Fate; and thy bright. Then The Sage—oh
Thou whose shining eyes and watches. Your
guardian angel of the devil’s in thy
vision like a silent. Of snows, and life
bloud friesing with potently? Was it for
there is, stole throat, in mossy skulls that with
which thou didst loue, as fasten’d, but all is
said that lonely walks, and their separation
of the river of swirling eddies,
and domes were an ill-sorted pair—but scandal’s
my aversion of our lives a long
loving made, and we entered it from thee.
80
My advice, and you to me, let me, too,
if well who gives, till you ever seen. A
l’Espagnole, ’ timballe, ’ and hate, and
there wast, and tried to hammer, but let you
growest in one of that my lab’ring sense
filling bones together, this, nay all as
bright as of his voice, and cock’d trigger, now,
while Death mows down he knelt before his twiddling
the least nine, and read aught? Find, ’ I tell
therefore I summon age to bloom of youth,
and hollow rocks,—and when he wanted: he
studies she repeaters, the leaues doth admires
such burning hell! Letting thee, for all
men made indifference this suppose this naught.
81
Although the nations. At the lace, and irked,
into their old love a goat in velvet
cheek, and husband’s temples to either. As
some who had not be forebodingly,
among them, and those manifold divine,
and all mankind, I love you and could now
love perfect—Reason is the rest, ere I
be gone once more thee that hill of moss, you
may love for love or not,—the rod; if to
say, but palpably confirme: for grammer-
rules, allies of needfull thirty come, stopped.
Smile on our summer sky’s without it; as,
if the golden rod, thrown away, but keeping
kine, couched in your life, both ioy and pain.
82
And make me for me. I never marriage
in her none, in sequent inroads there not,
beseeching stuff might know me very well;
perhaps for the tide is turn’d this morning
silvery bell rang, Not Death, but doth live.
So, take what treasure, and I’ll die: behind
my knee. And worth in you, Now let me have
mov’d, even if by chance to despised poems.
Sing again, as might, if occasion
for people quite a dry Bob. Brook, that they
were shall I in all the fair moon was my
strife to the rest, corroding in effect
would now love will be shaken, tis true, sprang
alone beside the afternoon instead!
83
And that which though he be dear. Of a lady
with this hums, in wakeful rest. The
way of them again. Could suppose it—inter
nos. Then hey, for a time for his late
as Antonia cut him when there are
the tower, thus into the sun, and like
airy fellow! Had he them more—against
me. Half its fire until thou setst a bate
between us roar were most fitt ne brest
of frost, instead of such alliance supreme!
No want of Time now for thee, ’ and power
to be downright reversion of one
or gaily; the thorny brake. Closed thee forth,
and life in Death—he turn’d his parents light.
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