Date: 1900
"When by the wind of Thought is stirred / Obscure Religion, throned in mist, / 'She has not said her final word' / Declares the staunch apologist."
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900
"But thought that strives to reunite / In polished facets of the mind / The broken colours of the light / Baffled in mists of human kind."
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1998
"His nakedness against the sheet, the wanton tangle of bedclothes by his ankle, and the sight of his own genitalia, at his age not yet fully obscured by the swell and spread of his gut, sent vague sexual thoughts floating across his mind like remote summer clouds."
preview | full record— McEwan, Ian (b. 1948)