What is fiddler jones about

I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret. Psychologist Dr. During the last recession, my family sat with several years of cash. We were scared and so we played it safe.

We bought nothing. We drifted. Other folks captured half price condos and houses. There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life. What do you see, a harvest of clover?

Or a meadow to walk through to the river? The wind's in the corn; you rub your hands For beeves hereafter ready for market; Or else you hear the rustle of skirts Like the girls when dancing at Little Grove. And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic.

I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle- And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret. Edgar Lee Masters Anne Rutledge Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; "With malice toward none, with charity for all. I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds, Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln, Wedded to him, not through union, But through separation.

Bloom forever, O Republic, From the dust of my bosom! Fletcher McGee She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That saps the spinning world. The days went by like shadows, The minutes wheeled like stars.

She took the pity from my heart, And made it into smiles. She was a hunk of sculptor's clay, My secret thoughts were fingers: They flew behind her pensive brow And lined it deep with pain.

They set the lips, and sagged the cheeks, And drooped the eyes with sorrow. My soul had entered in the clay, Fighting like seven devils. It was not mine, it was not hers; She held it, but its struggles Modeled a face she hated, And a face I feared to see. I beat the windows, shook the bolts. Electrical Engineering. Computer Science. Medical Science. Writing Tutorials. Performing Arts. Visual Arts. Student Life. Vocational Training. Standardized Tests. Online Learning.

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