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;void(0)) . . . PLANTS see: "GARDENS" see "NATURE" for other related links see "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flow'ring in a wilderness. --Thomas Moore (17791852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. _Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance_ [1817] ----- bamboo (noun) [bam-bu'] Any of a number of semitropical or tropical grasses often resembling trees, with perennial, jointed stems that are woody, hard, springy, and often hollow and sometimes grow to a height of c. 36 m (c. 120 feet): the stems are used in light construction and for furniture, canes, etc., and the young shoots of some species are eaten. deciduous (di-SIJ-oo-uhs) adj. 1. falling off at a certain season or stage of growth. 2. shedding or losing foliage annually. 3. short-lived; not lasting; ephemeral. haulm (noun) [halm or hawlm] The stalks or bushy parts of vegetables, grains, grasses, and flowering plants especially if used for animal litter or thatching on your roof. herbivore (noun) ['hκr-bκ-vor] Any creature that eats only plants and vegetables. hydrophyte (noun) A plant adapted to grow in water. Synonyms: aquatic plant, hydrophytic plant, water plant jardiniere (noun) [zhar-dn-'eer or jar-dn-'eer] 1/ A decorative container for plants or flowers; 2/ a stand or box for plants or flowers, such as a window box; 3/ diced fresh vegetables served as an accompaniment to meat, as a jardiniere soup. verdant [VUR-dnt], adjective: 1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green with vegetation. 2. Green. 3. Unripe in knowledge, judgment, or experience; unsophisticated; green. Ex.: Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring. --Patricia Albers, "Shadows, Fire, Snow"  . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links see "HAPPINESS" for related links see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links It is a happy talent to know how to play. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Journals [1834] In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.18 A.D.) Roman poet. _The Art of Love_ You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. --Plato (427?347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. - The day we stop playing is the day we start growing old. --"Mr. Bloom" (Scatman Crothers) [In the "Kick The Can" segment of the film, _The Twilight Zone: The Movie_ [1983]; screenplay by George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson and Melissa Mathison.] ----- gambol (intransitive verb) To leap or skip around playfully or as noun: An instance of leaping around playfully jocular [JOK-yuh-luhr], adjective: 1. Given to joking or jesting. 2. Characterized by joking; playful. ludic [LOO-dik], adjective: Of or relating to play; characterized by play; playful. Ex.: But within this ludic tale there lurks a tragedy of love and loss that does not lose its tenderness even when embedded in [the author's] perpetually farcical frame of mind. --Richard Bernstein, "Lalita, Post-Modern Object of Desire," _New York Times_ [8 September 1999] . . see: "CHARM" see: "GRACE" see "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for other related links He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) American novelist. _Notebooks_ [1978] If thou wouldst please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. - It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_ Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it cannot be so to yourself. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. - I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is; try to please everybody. --Herbert Swope (1928 ) American biochemist. ----- complaisant [kuhm-PLAY-suhnt; -zuhnt], adjective: Exhibiting a desire to please; obliging; compliant. Ex.: "But the relationship between the two countries, which was based on cold geopolitical realities, had no chance of transforming Beijing into a complaisant ally." --Jacob Heilbrunn, "The next cold war," _New Republic_, [20 November 1995] Note: Complacent means "self-satisfied, contented," but it can also mean "eager to please." fastidious [fa-STID-ee-uhs], adjective: hard to please; extremely refined or critical obsequious (adj.) Dutifully compliant, servile, fawningly sycophantic, overly zealous to please or worm one's way into the affection of others. . . see "HAPPINESS" for related links No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare. --Sir Kingsley Amis (19221995) English novelist, poet, critic, and father of Martin Amis. "The Times" [21 June 1994], attributed One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. --Jane Austen (17751817) English writer. _Emma_, ch. 9 [1816] The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. --Walter Bagehot (18261877) British economist and essayist. _Prospective Review_ [1853] "Shakespeare" Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_ [18191824] Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. In William M White (comp.) _Great Truths by Great Authors_, p. 408 [1856]. Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. --Chinese Proverb They that seldom take pleasure seldom give pleasure. --Fulke Greville (15541628) English philosophical poet. Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise. --Thomas Hardy (18401928) English novelist and poet. _A Pair of Blue Eyes_, ch. 9 [1873] One cannot have pleasure without giving it. --Hermann Hesse (18771962) German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. The first thing men do when they have renounced pleasure, through decency, lassitude, or for the sake of health, is to condemn it in others. Such conduct denotes a kind of latent affection for the very things they left off; they would like no one to enjoy a pleasure they can no longer indulge in; and thus they show their feelings of jealousy. --Jean de La Bruyθre (16451696) French essayist and moralist. "Of Mankind" A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives. --Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (17411803) French soldier and writer. Les Liaisons dangereuses [1782] - The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. "Table Talk by the late Elia" in _The Athenaeum_ [4 January 1834] There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. - The Puritans tried to choke the craving for pleasure in early New England. They had no theater, no dances, no festivals. They burned witches instead. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. _A Preface to Politics_ [1914] Ch. 2 Who loves not wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long. --attributed to Martin Luther (14831546) German Protestant theologian. The sweetest pleasure comes from difficulties overcome. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. --John Selden (15841654) English historian. _Table Talk_ [1689] "Pleasure" That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Journal_ [11 March 1856] What a fearful thing it is that any language should have a word expressive of the pleasure which men feel at the calamities of others, for the existence of the word bears testimony to the existence of the thing. And yet in more than one is such a word to be found ... In Greek epichairekakia, in the German, 'Schadenfreude'. --R. C. Trench (18071886) Irish Archbishop of Dublin, theologian, poet, and amateur philologist. _On the Study of Words_, (ed. 3) II. 29. [1852] I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. Letter to Madame du Deffand. Studies in which men and women were asked to rank their pleasures in order of enjoyment show repeatedly that whereas sex is the favorite for most men, many women prefer knitting. --Dr. Glenn Wilson All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening. --Alexander Woollcott (18871943) American dramatic and literary critic. In R.E. Drennan _Wit's End_ [1973]. ----- anhedonia (noun) [ζn-hee-don-i-yκ] The lack of a capacity to enjoy pleasure. bonhomie (noun): Good nature; pleasant and easy manner. Ex.: And what of the salesman's fabled bonhomie, the Willy Lomanesque emphasis on the importance of being liked? --"How to Manage Salespeople", _Fortune_ [14 March 1988] delectation [dee-lek-TAY-shun], noun: Great pleasure; delight, enjoyment. ecstatic (adj.) Showing or feeling great pleasure or delight fetching (adj.) ['fe-ching] Alluring, fascinating, pleasant. fruition (noun) 1/ A pleasure obtained from using or possessing something; enjoyment; 2/ A coming to fulfillment; realization a book that is the fruition of years of research. gregarious [grih-GAIR-ee-us], adjective: 1. Tending to form a group with others of the same kind. 2. Seeking and enjoying the company of others. hedonist (noun) ['heed-n-ist] One who lives for pleasure, one who is self gratifying. jocund (adj.) ['jah-kκnd or 'jo-kκnd] Happy, light-hearted, pleasant, carefree, cheerful. sensuous (adj.) ['sen-shu-wκs] Gratifying the senses, aesthetically enjoying the pleasures of the senses. sybarite [SIB-uh-ryt], noun: A person devoted to luxury and pleasure. voluptuary [vuh-LUHP-choo-er-ee], noun: A person devoted to luxury and the gratification of sensual appetites; a sensualist. adjective: Voluptuous; luxurious. Ex.: Though depicted as a decadent voluptuary, she remained celibate for more than half of her adult life. --Michiko Kakutani, "Cleopatra Behind Her Magic Mirror" _New York Times_ [5 June 1990] . . I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government . . .passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country . . .where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation . . . from a government authority. --Jimmy Carter (1924 ) American Democratic statesman, President [19771981]. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. "Declaration of Independence" [4 July 1776] I wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation. --Carl Sagan (19341996) American astronomer and author.  PLUMBERS . . see "WORK" for related links The plumber should be put down with the tax-gatherer as a being as certain as fate and as inexorable [..] You will come to have an un-natural hatred for the man and his myrmidons. He leaves nothing behind you to eat as does the butcher, nothing to wear as does the tailor, nothing to delight you nothing finally, in which you may exult among your acquaintance. Whoever spoke among his friends of his plumber, or boasted of his intimacy with that dark, silent and seemingly sullen man who comes so frequently and on his coming has nothing to say for himself? The plumber is doubtless aware that he is odious. He feels himself like Dickens' turnpike man, to be the enemy of mankind. --Anthony Trollope (18151882) English novelist [son of Frances Trollope.] "The Plumber" [1880] ;void(0)) POE, EDGAR ALLAN . . Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) American poet and short-story writer. see also: "WRITING" see "PEOPLE" for other related links - To purchase cigars, a guest at the Astor House had only to step into the tobacconist's on the ground floor. Frequent and unnecessary trips were made in the hopes of becoming more closely acquainted with the shop's special attraction, a ravishing salesgirl named Mary Cecilia Rogers. Mary wisely let it be known that she dwelt under the eagle eye of her old mother at the latter's boardinghouse on Nassau Street. Consequently, her clientele was surprised to read in the papers that Miss Rogers had mysteriously disappeared. A week later, just as the police were about to begin an intensive investigation, she rematerialized, reciting a vague story of having taken the airs for a spell at the home of relatives in the country. There was gossip, all the same, and she was embarrassed into giving up her lucrative post at the hotel. This transpired in February of 1842. Five months later, the press had much more sensational and tragic news to report. Again Mary had disappeared, but this time her battered body had been found floating in the Hudson in the vicinity of Weehawken. Amazingly, the only valid solution to her murder was suggested by a struggling young Southern journalist recently arrived in New York. Too poor to frequent the Astor House, his involvement with the incident came no closer than reading the daily reports in the papers. Changing only the names of the principals and places connected with the case, Edgar Allan Poe was able to reconstruct the crime and deduce the identity of Mary's actual murderer in his chilling "Mystery of Marie Roget." --Michael & Ariane Batterberry _On The Town In New York_ [1999] - He was an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul. He sounded the horror and the warning of his own doom. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. _Studies In Classic American Literature_ [1924] Poe . . . was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and De Quincey seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry. --James Thurber (18941961) American humorist and cartoonist. _Alarms and Diversions_ [1957] . . see "CHILDREN'S RHYME" see "LITERATURE" - It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. _The Dyer's Hand_ [1962] A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (19071973) English-born poet and man of letters. _Shorts II_ [1976] - All poets are mad. --Robert Burton (15771640) English scholar, cleric, and author. _The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [16211651] I've half a mind to tumble down to prose, But verse is more in fashion so here goes. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Beppo_ [1818] I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention and labor, make himself whatever he pleases, except a great poet. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter to His Son [9 October 1746]. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (18741936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. - No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Biographia Literaria_, ch. 22 [1817] Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Table Talk_ "23 July 1827" [1835] - We campaign in poetry, but when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose. --Mario Cuomo (1932 ) American lawyer and politician. Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. [15 February 1985]. The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. --Salvadore Dali (19041989) Spanish painter. Preface to Pierre Cabanne _Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp_ [1968]. If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. --Charles Darwin (18091882) English naturalist. _Autobiography_ (ed. Francis Darwin) [1887] Dear Blanchard, too much string - Yours, CD. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. Letter to Laman Blanchard, who had sent him a copy of some verses entitled "Orient Pearls at Random Strung". Quoted in Frederick Locker Lampson _My Confidences_ [1896]. Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say...something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand. --Paul Dirac (19021984) British theoretical physicist. To Robert Oppenheimer at Gφttingen, quoted in I.A. Richards, "The Writer and Semantics" in _Arena_ [24 October 1965]. All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. --Lord Alfred Douglas (18701945) English poet. _Collected Poems_ [1919] - Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. _The Sacred Wood_ [1920] "Philip Massinger" How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim And his conversation, so nicely Restricted to What Precisely And If and Perhaps and But. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. "Five-Finger Exercises" [1936] - As a poet [Ogden] Nash works under two disadvantages: he is a humorist, and he is easy to understand. --Clifton Fadiman (19041999) American critic and author. _Party for One_ [1955] - A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness.... It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. In a talk at the Milton [Massachsetts] Academy [17 May 1935]. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. - His gentle spirit rolls In the melody of souls Which is pretty, but I don't know what it means. --W. S. Gilbert (18361911) English writer of comic and satirical verse. "The Story of Prince Agib" A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. Quoted in James M. Trotter _Music and Some Highly Musical People_ [1880]. [Remark to William Butler Yeats:] Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you. --Maud Gonne (18671953) English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress. I saw a Melancholy Wasp Upon a Purple Clover Knosp, Who wept, 'The Poets do me Wrong, Excluding me from Noble Song Though Pure am I and Wholly Crimeless Because, they say, my Name is Rhymeless! Oh, had I but been born a Bee, With Heaps of Words to Rhyme with me, I should not want for Panegyrics In Sonnets, Epics, Odes and Lyrics! Will no one free me from the Curse That bars my Race from Lofty Verse?' 'My Friend, that Little Thing I'll care for At once,' said I and that is wherefore So tenderly I set that Wasp Upon a Purple Clover Knosp. --Arthur Guiterman (18711943) American poet. "Kindness to Insects" [Ezra] Pound's crazy. All poets are . . . They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there. --Ernest Hemingway (18891961) American novelist. Commenting on Pound's incarceration in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Quoted by Leonard Lyons in the "New York Post" [24 January 1957]. No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_, Book I [C. 20 BC], Epistle XIX, Line 2 A poet should not walk across a space which he can clear at a bound. --Joseph Joubert (17541824) French philosopher. If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all. --John Keats (17951821) English poet. Letter to John Taylor [27 February 1818]. The notion of expressing sentiments in short lines having similar sounds at their ends seems as remote as mangoes on the moon. --Philip Larkin (19221985) English poet. Letter to Barbara Pym [22 January 1975]. - Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Hyperion_ [1839] The barbs sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "The Day is Done" st. 5 [1844] - My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. --Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American film comedian. In Ned Sherrin's _Cutting Edge_ [1984]. Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. --Adrian Mitchell (1932 ) English poet, novelist, and dramatist. _Poems_ [1964] Byron and Shelley and Keats Were a trio of lyrical treats. The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls, And Keats never was a descendant of earls, And Byron walked out with a number of girls, But it didn't impair the poetical feats Of Byron and Shelley, Of Byron and Shelley, Of Byron and Shelley and Keats. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. "A Pig's Eye View Of Literature" Sir, I admit your gen'ral rule That every poet is a fool: But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. "Epigram from the French", l. I [1732] I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. --Carl Sandburg (18781967) American poet. Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. --Edmund Clarence Stedman (18331908) American poet and anthologist. _Victorian Poets_ [1887] So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. "Poetry--A Rhapsody" [1733] Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. "The Poet's Mind" The people of New England are by nature patient and forebearing but there are some things which they will not stand. Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about 'Beautiful Spring.' These are generally casual visitors who bring their notions of spring from somewhere else. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. In a speech to the New England Society [December 1876]. Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. --John Wain (19251994) English poet, novelist, and critic. The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to make sure of her meaning before she spoke, said, 'How can I know what I think till I see what I say?' --Graham Wallas (18581932) English political scientist. _The Art of Thought_, ch. 4 [1926] I think there is no such thing as a long poem. If it is long it isn't a poem; it is something else. A book like 'John Brown's Body', for instance, is not a poem it is a series of poems tied together with cord. Poetry is intensity, and nothing is intense for long. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. "Poetry" _One Man's Meat_ [1944] We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. --William Butler Yeats (18651939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. _Essays_ [1924] - There was a young man from Japan Whose poetry no one could scan When asked about it, He said, yes I admit That I always try to work as many words as possible into the last lines of my poems as I possibly can. --anon. Poetry is proof that rhyme doesn't pay. --anon. - In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku has strict construction rules. Each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. They are used to communicate timeless messages,often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Instead of making you want to throw your computer out the window, they have a calming effect. For example: The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Your file was so big. It must have been quite useful. But now it is gone. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. All is blank. First snow, then silence This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. --author unknown - ----- aubade [oh-BAHD] noun: A song or poem greeting the dawn; also, a composition suggestive of morning. epigram (noun) ['e-pκ-grζm] A short poem or poetic line ending on a witty thought. idyll [EYE-dl], noun: 1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like. 2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme. paean (noun) ['pee-κn] A song, poem, or other profession of profound joy, gratitude, or triumph. (The original paean was a hymn of praise sung to Apollo or other gods for safety before going into battle or on other occasions. 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