whaaaat did you play in marching band now you've got me eyes emoji curious for no reason
i played clarinet bc that’s what my grandpa bought me and i hated it but i was good at it and was first chair my senior year. i really liked and preferred the sound of alto sax but i didn’t get one until after i graduated and couldn’t afford lessons and then i had to sell it to help my mom pay rent so rip that potential sexciness
can you do a millie bright x reader where it’s their wedding day and the whole team are there and it’s just really fluffy and cute:). love your writing so much
Tears of Joy
Millie Bright x reader request
-> Marrying the Love of your Life
-> sorry for the delay - I hope you like it!
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After waiting and planning for months on end – maybe even your entire childhood, the day was finally here. You were getting married!
Sure many dreams from your childhood wedding plans came true, but you didn’t quite find a prince charming, more of a princess charming – your very own knight in shining armor, the one and only Millie Bright.
As soon as you hat met Millie all those years ago in a Social Media meeting for Chelsea, you knew that she was the one. But the gentle giant had been quite scared to come up and talk to you – so you had to take the first step.
While the blonde looked intimidating it only took speaking to her once to see that she really wasn’t – maybe more so on the pitch, but luckily you didn’t have to face her there.
Millie had blushed a deep red when you caught her arms as she frantically tried to leave the meeting room, something you had not expected.
“Hi Millie, would you like to go on a date with me?”
Of course, she knew who you were, the new head of media for the women’s branch of Chelsea and she had spent the last four meetings just staring at you.
While you had felt confident walking up to her, seeing her face contort into a frown and lines appear on her forehead changed your mind quickly and you removed your hand.
“Or not – sorry that was a stupid idea.”
She couldn’t pull you in a hug fast enough. Dear god. If she hugged you like this, you never want to hug another person.
“I wanted to act cool and act like I wasn’t sure… But I would love to!”
To this day Millie and you could laugh about how much more stressful it had been than it needed if she had just said yes immediately.
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While you had taken the first step to dating, Millie had been the one to ask the big question. She had just come home, even though she had been at home the entire time, from winning the Euros – and emotions were at an all-time high. Your girlfriend was now officially the champion of Europe.
You had been the first person she had seen out of the stands, her parents pushing you forward when you wanted to let them go first, after all, she was their daughter. “Don’t be silly love!” Had been what her mother said once she saw the blonde making her way towards the barriers.
“I did it, Baby! I fucking did it!” She was in tears, face still hot from running on the pitch for such a long time as she pulled you into a passionate kiss, not caring the slightest about all the cameras.
“You did so well my love! I am so proud of you!”
She would never forget the look on your face – she had never seen you look so proud of anybody, and now you looked at her like this. Her heart? Melted into a puddle.
Your girlfriend didn’t wait for long, lifting you over the barrier and pulling you as close to her as she could.
“My god Mills, leave some for me!” It was Rachel who finally pulled her sweaty best friend off you, just to replace her, giving you a bone-crushing hug.
“Off Rach! That’s my girl! Get ya own!”
The ‘DalyBrightness’ duo had always playful banter between them, and you were no stranger to it either, often getting roped into it somehow by Rachel, determined to get Millie angry – but the taller one of the two could only laugh about it every time.
The whole evening and night was spent partying, first in the dressing rooms, then in a chosen location with friends and family. Trafalgar Square was the next destination, where the girls would meet the nation they had made so incredibly proud, just the evening before.
After all the meetings and interviews had finally calmed down, you got your girlfriend back. Millie had finally arrived at home, in your shared south London house and the first thing she saw was your dogs Hera and Zeus. But upon lifting her head, the defender saw that they flanked both of your sides, while you held a beautiful ‘Welcome Home’ cake in your hands.
She couldn’t kiss you fast enough after seeing your nice gesture and cute smile.
“I love you much my love, and I don’t think I tell you enough. But I really do.”
The first thing you did after not seeing each other for such a long time, was napping. In the big bed, ready to sleep the day away. What you didn’t know, was that Millie woke up way before you and found herself staring at a beautiful ring in a little box.
Today was the day.
After making dinner she had asked you. She didn’t go down on her knees, so she pulled out a box, opened it, and just sat there for a second until you finally turned and noticed the ring.
“Mills?”
“Marry me?”
Choked up on tears you couldn’t do anything but nod. “Yeah, baby. I’ll marry you.” The kiss that followed tasted like tears, tears of utter joy as Zeus and Hers ran through the room yapping as if they knew what had just happened.
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The day was finally here. Yours and Millie's wedding day. In retrospect you could not have chosen a better day, even if you obviously had not known how the weather would be – it was perfect.
Getting ready was a long process, not even physically, but rather mentally. But there was not a single doubt in your mind, that you would marry the love of your life.
You were ready when a knock sounded at the door and your sister who at the same time was your maid of honor opened it. The door was only open a smidge so you couldn’t really see who was behind it, while you talked to your bridesmaids.
“It’s go-time people!”
Your heart fluttered. But you were not nervous or anxious, no. You were excited and nearly ran out of the room with the bridesmaids to get to the altar, but your sister stopped you in your tracks, insisting that you had to wait somewhere else until the rest of the wedding party walked down the aisle.
Now stood in a room you waited for your sign. Fuck. Now the nerves were coming up. In your head, you went through the plan again, when you heard someone clear their throat.
It was Millie. There she was, dressed in a gorgeous white jumpsuit – looking at you like you hung the moon. “Baby! “You cannot see me in my dress before the wedding!”
Tears brimmed in both your eyes as you stared at your fiancé who couldn’t keep standing there any longer, so with brisk steps the blonde rushed forward and engulfed you in one of your favorite hugs. Your hearts find each other and beat in unison.
“How are ya feelin?” She rested her forehead on yours while staring at you as long as she could. “Nervous. Excited. Incredibly happy.“
The music inside was slowly getting quieter and you knew that you didn’t have that much time left. “I thought we could change the plan a little.”
Turns out Millie's idea was brilliant. Instead of just you walking in, both of you walked in together, no one would give anyone away. This would be a union of love between you and her, but that didn’t mean that either of you had to say goodbye to your family.
You could hear the gasps as you walked down the aisle, arms hooked together, each of you a flower bouquet in hand, the biggest smiles anyone had ever seen on your faces. You looked magical.
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In the end, you don’t even know how you got through the vows, all you remember were a lot of tears, and an incredibly passionate kiss that was met with screams of joy from the audience.
After all of your families had congratulated the both of you, your Club mates made their way towards you each of them with big smiles on their faces.
Niamh was the first at your side and was the first to pull you into a warm hug. “You look like a princess. But one of those badass ones, that doesn’t need a white knight to save them.”
“I will need a cheaper ring for daily use, this one belongs in a bank in a safe deposit box.” Millie's joke was met with a lot of laughter as Sam came over and after hugging you as well, took a closer look at your ring. “Maybe! That is a fucking rock Mills!”
„You’re one to talk.“ Hempo received a slight nudge from her captain while everyone else laughed along.
One after the other Chelsea and Lioness teammates alike made their way through the masses, hugging you with congratulatory tones and singing praises. Most of them even brought presents which they gave your sister for safekeeping.
“I can finally call you my wife.” Millie had stolen you away from the open space for a second and pulled you close for a deep kiss.
“My wife, huh? That has a nice ring to it.”
Not only were you her wife now, but she was also yours. Married. Oh dear god, you were finally married to the girl of your dreams. “Best day of my life.”
“Then I am excited to give you better ones.”
“God. you disgust me.” Neither of you had seen Rachel invade the nice little space Millie and you had created for the two of you
Time to clear up some misconceptions! And confirm some truths. So pull up your seat, grab a snack & prepare for TOTAL fucking honesty. 💯 While this post is primarily about Aries Suns, much of it can also be applied to other Aries placements in general. So take whatever resonates.
♈️ Aries Women are usually into more dominant, masculine types. They adore men who are stronger & smarter than them whom they can learn from. 👍While Aries Women are indeed fully capable of taking care of themselves, they love knowing that they can lean on and trust the man that they love if needed. They prefer reliable partners with backbone. They have NO respect for passive males, as they will DESTROY a weaker man's soul. 🔥 Eat him alive just like the large plant in the 'Little Shop of Horrors' movie. 🤣 It truly ain't pretty!
♈️ Contrary to popular LIES... many Aries Women are VERY feminine. They aren't doormats though! Nor the girl-next-door type. Ram Women typically embody the "Hot Girl" or the "Femme Fatale" brand of Femininity. ❤️🔥 She's often the Leader of the pack whom other women model themselves after & want to be like. Jayne Mansfield, Diana Ross & Mariah Carey - Aries Sun 🌞; Sade, Janet Jackson, Pam Anderson - Aries Moon 🌙; Marilyn Monroe & Liz Taylor - Aries Venus ⚘️. Are any of these women Tomboys?? FUCK NO! They are womanly, spicy & passionate beings. Learn the damn difference.
I sometimes find that Taurus, Cancer & Virgo Women can push the "masculine" stereotype onto Aries Women the most because they wish to be more like them in certain ways. 💯 For instance, most Aries Women aren't taking care of ANY man. But I've seen Taurus paying for men, Cancer mothering men & Virgo trying to train men into being obedient dogs! Add to that, Scorpio Women are often control freaks who insist on leading. Sag & Aquarius Women are rebels who often try to compete with & emasculate any man that they encounter. So who's actually lacking in Femininity here?? Not Aries, from what I see. 🤷🏾♀️ Lots of projection going on.
♈️ Aries Women are indeed outspoken. They are typically confident & in possession of strong boundaries. They are open & honest communicators who aren't afraid to ask for what they want. Most Men LOVE this about them and wish more women were like this! 🩷 Alternatively, deep inside of every Ram Woman is a sweet, adventurous little girl with a heart of GOLD who yearns to feel safe. ❤️🔥 A maiden wanting her protector! They're an astonishing blend of pure innocence like the Spring Goddess Persephone + the wit & warrior spirit of Goddess Athena. 🙌 There are sooo many interesting layers to the Aries Woman!! It's insanely fascinating. They are deeply selective with who they disclose all of this to, though. So they can be misunderstood at times.
♈️ Aries Women are Masters of keeping men ON THEIR TOES in a healthy way. They like men and men adore them. 👌 They highly value autonomy, so they extend that to their partners and give them breathing room. They inspire men to be better, more powerful versions of themselves. They do have tempers!! But they don't hold grudges and their sex more than makes up for the trouble. 😺 They are playful and NEVER boring! How TF do you think we keep attracting the best of the best?? Not by being a Basic Bitch, my friends. 🤣
♈️ According to Marriage Statistics: Aries Women have the longest-lasting marriages with Leo Men, Sagittarius Men, Aquarius Men & Aries Men. ⚘️⚘️ After that, we also have solid odds with Capricorn & Taurus Men. We most often divorce Virgo, Gemini & Libra Men which makes TOTAL sense to me. Not surprised! Aries Women do not enjoy flaky and/or nitpicky partners.
♈️ Aries Women are just as sensitive & intuitive as Cancers in certain ways - we just follow our GUT instincts more than the emotions of our heart. 🔥 We're rarely wrong about someone's character. We bully the bullies! And *if* we care about you, we have your back until the very end. But if you betray us?? You will go from feeling like the most special person in the world... to the most worthless piece of gum scraping off the bottom of our shoe as we walk away from you FOREVER. 🙌 Do not play with us!! Don't play yourself by losing the best prize you'll ever have.
That's all for now, darlings. Happy Aries Season!! ♈️ And thanks so very much for all of the new follows, shares & support!
Plz do more of angela IL DO ANYTHING PLZ AND ILL TAKE ANYTHING
angela giarratana x reader headcanons
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a/n: ask and you shall receive, here are full length angela headcanons!! I’ve included the original headcanons from the ‘smosh women headcanons’ in this post as well and I put them at the beginning in italics!! also amanda x reader is coming soon!! tysm for the request 🩰🍒
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dating angela would include…
you guys take turns picking movies and shows to watch and get really into them
she loves your sense of humor so much
and you guys definitely make each other laugh at inappropriate times
she lets you borrow anything of hers you want
so much teasing
you guys do karaoke together
she sits in your lap all the time
you guys go to the theater together and she whispers to you throughout the whole thing
you guys get a dog
she thinks you’re crazy talented and loves listening to you talk about what you’re passionate about
ok so backstory when you became a cast member at smosh
you and her became friends really quickly
she found herself falling for you
she definitely confided in amanda and chanse for advice on what to do
and she finally decided to ask you out
and you two started dating
she gets really close with all of your friends and they love her so much
makes you gifts
always playing with your hair
game nights with her are so fun
she gets super into it and you two as a team always win
she loves your smile so much
kisses your nose
she definitely tried to cook for you one time
and almost burned the place down
but you guys laughed as you ate the burnt meal
and she pretended like it was totally supposed to be like that all along
‘see, it’s hot like you!’
little spoon
she calls you babe
she mentions you in smosh videos whenever she possibly can
she definitely danced in the rain with you once
‘wait how much money would you pay me to stand up on this table and scream that at the top of my lungs right now?’
texts you voice messages more than actual text messages
when she has something to say to you or just to tell you she loves you
she just cares about you so much and you couldn’t be happier together <3
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ˋ°•*⁀➷ hope you enjoyed this!! like i said amanda headcanons coming soon and let me know if you want any other smosh content! have a lovely day/night !! 💋💌
I feel like when I’m reading or watching something, for me to like a hero, they have to
1) have ambition about anything
2) not be annoying
3) not excuse their shitty behaviour with their shitty childhood
4) not be so self-righteous they don’t see their own flaws
For these reasons I hate with a burning passion Jace Herondale, Clary Fairchild, Eli Ever, Tiberius “Cal” Calore VIII, Dean Winchester, and Legend/Dante Santos
Jace is constantly doing something shitty in every book and people don’t care and they just put up with it for some reason. In CoG he belittles Clary because he wants to push her away but keeps coming back to her. He also keeps coming onto Clary when he thought she was his sister and said that cursed sentence in CoG that I need to bleach from my brain. I know if he said that shit to me I would’ve punched him in his stupid face cuz who does he think he is? He mocks the werewolves after they lost a child in their pack, he’s just awful to Alec at times, he doesn’t seem to understand there are consequences to his actions and just does shit because he wants to. He had the emotional maturity of a dried up pinecone.
Clary also does so much shit and people don’t call her out because she’s the protagonist and she just lets Jace do whatever to her because he’s hot. Girl please get a grip. She slut shames Izzy because apparently women aren’t allowed to have a sex life or wear revealing clothing 😒 girl you kissed someone you thought was YOUR BROTHER!! She dated Simon to get over Jace and then kissed Jace in the Seelie Court, and repeatedly thought about Jace in a romantic sense WHILE she thought they were SIBLINGS! I can’t.
Eli is so self-righteous, annoying and hypocritical. He uses God and religion as an excuse to kill innocent people which is just disgusting. Like I get that he thinks being an EO changed a person because Victor became different but he is an EO himself and he just takes it on himself to murder innocent people for simply existing.
Cal has no desire to do anything, at least up to the beginning of King’s Cage he doesn’t (where I currently am). He knows how poorly the Reds are being treated and he doesn’t want to change anything because (and I’m paraphrasing) there would be outrage among the Silvers and a war would break out. Bitch you are already at war! He’s the reason why so many innocent young Reds have lost their lives fighting in a war they have no say in. He sees the Scarlet Guard killing Silvers and he doesn’t try to stop them. He sulks and whines but doesn’t take any real action, which he could if he actually wanted to. He stalks around the camp like Mare’s dog and thinks he’s better than everyone.
Dean Winchester is an abusive asshole. He locked Sam in the cellar when he was addicted to demon blood when he knew the withdrawal could kill him. He shit on Sam for being manipulated. He’s made horrible perverted jokes about women, might I remind y’all of the high school episode (he was at least 26 at the time). He guilted Sam for leaving him in Hell and Purgatory when he did THE EXACT SAME THING when Same went to the cage. He threatened Kaia, a teenager at gun point for his own selfish purposes. He abused Jack til the very end, yelling that he wasn’t family when Jack had sacrificed his soul and life for the Winchesters, and made Jack hate himself for being born. He was shitty to Cas in so many seasons and didn’t care that Cas just went through seeing his son die and wasn’t able to save him. He violated Sam’s body by tricking him into letting Gadreel in which led to the death of Kevin and had the audacity to think he was wronged.
Dante is shit. Julian, his brother, lived with him for centuries, followed him wherever he went and loved him unconditionally. All Julian asked was for Dante to love him back, which he never did. When Julian finally found someone who loved him, Dante made fun of him. And then in the next book he gives up his immortality for Tella, a girl he has known for literal months at most. He didn’t love his brother, who has been with him since the beginning, enough to give up his immortality but he loved this random girl he has known for a couple months at most to give it all up?? Tella should’ve left him in the dust just like she did Jacks and went off on adventures by herself and met someone that wasn’t a twat.
author portrayed a trans woman reaaaally badly i heard she understood more later on but i have yet to read the manga sorry. but truly in the anime Grelle is NOT portrayed good PLEASE hear me
so grelle is canonically transfem, right? shes a very powerful character, being on-par with who i would consider the strongest character in kuro, yet her power and potential wasnt acted upon, and instead she was shown to be incompotent and only after attractive men such as sebastian.
yana toboso, the creator of black butler, originally wrote her character with a lot of harmful queer stereotypes. one of those is the fact that she killed women out of jealousy because she couldnt give birth, yet these sex workers were throwing away what she saw as a gift through getting abortions.
now, her characfter in the manga improved drastically since then, and yana has improved on her representation(although not fully, ill admit). this would be fine in my book, if she wasnt COMPLETELY SCREWED OVER IN THE ANIME. THE ANIME ONLY FOCUSED ON HER STEREOTYPES IN THAT FIRST ARC, AND KEPT ON BUILDING ON THEM. SHE WAS ASSIGNED A MALE VA AND HE WAS LITERALLY TOLD TO PLAY THE VOICE OF A STEREOTYPICAL GAY MAN. YOU SEE THE PROBLEM? THEN SHES CHARACTERIZED AS SOMEONE WHOS JUST CONSTANTLY HORNY AND ONLY WANTS TO SEE HOT MEN AND JUST HGKRGJRKGRH.
SEASON ONE. EPISODE 11. THERES A NEW CHARACTER, A DEMON HOUND. THIS DEMON HOUND IS A GUY WHO CAN CHANGE FROM A HUGE DOG TO A NORMAL HUMAN MAN, YET HE COMPLETELY HAS THE MIND OF A DOG. HOW DOES GRELLE REACT? SHES COMPLETELY FUCKING ENTHRALLED BY THIS GUY. SHE FINDS HIM ATTRACTIVE, AND. UGHRGIH. I DONT KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN IT ITS JUST WEIRD AND NOT. HOW. SHE WOULD REACT.
STILL EPISODE 11. THE MAIN CHARACTER, CIEL PHANTOMHIVE, WAS GIVEN AN ASSIGNMENT FROM QUEEN VICTORIA, WHICH REQUIRES HIM TO INVESTIGATE THIS PLACE WITH A BUNCH OF SENTIANT, LIFE-SIZED DOLLS AND ITS ALL WEIRD. CIEL NEEDS GRELLES HELP, SO HE ASKS HER TO GO TO THE BIG TOWER W THE DOLLS. GRELLE IS UNINTERESTED. CIEL COMPROMISES BY OFFERING HER A DEAL, WHERE IF SHE HELPS, SHE CAN HAVE SEBASTIAN FOR A WHOLE DAY, AND HE'LL DO WHATEVER SHE ASKS. AND SHE FUCKING AGREES. IM SHITTING MY PANTS OVER THIS. ALMOST THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE ARC, IF SHE AND SEBASTIAN ARE IN THE SAME ROOM, SHE'LL ONLY CARE ABOUT SEBASTIAN.
lets go to season 2! episode 3, the first episode she appears in for s2! she does not do her job correctly. this funny camera makes souls disappear if theyre killed by the flames it makes. does she care? not really! she just takes a picture with sebastian at the end of the episode and leaves. MANGA GRELLE WOULD NOT DO THAT. THE GRELLE I KNOW. WOULDNT DO THAT.
this is very not sorted <3 i feel very passionately about this though <3
The tale of a young girl and her little dog who winds up in a fantasy land, meeting all sorts of wild and unlikely friends along the way to getting back home. This film is a classic for a reason. The music, the characters, the production, everything is so spot-on perfect and has become such an engrained part of cinema that I almost think people can take it for granted sometimes. I love this film and the fact that it is 100% sincere in it's passion for creating a fantasy world. Not a single ironic or mean bone in this whole film, it's committed to embracing the joy that can come from cinema.
It's famous for its segueing from black and white to colour when Dorothy enters Oz, but honestly? I think it deserves a place in the tournament based solely on the fantastic look of the flying monkeys. Absolutely iconic, so much more terrifying than anything they could do with CGI today.
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These two musicians accidentally get involved with the mafia, I think they witness a murder but my memory is foggy, they then need to escape but the only way they can do so is by joining a women's orchestra. So they dress up like women. One forms a relationship with a girl played by Marilyn Monroe whilst technically still in disguise as a girl and the other forms a relationship with a man who is intent on marrying him. The film ends with the latter man taking off his disguise in a bid to convince the man that fell in love with him that their relationship won't work (despite having feelings for him), it essentially goes "you can't marry me because I'm a man!" To which the other responded "nobody's perfect'. Its just a really sweet movie especially for the subject matter and time period, it makes me very happy.
Now a quick heads up, this isn’t just going to be a retread of my 5-star list. That’s more of a list of what I think is the best matches in the world, while this is more matches that I in particular like and/or hold sentiment for me. Though there will inevitably be overlap
Honorable mentions:
Hangman Adam Page vs Bryan Danielson 12/15- This match is basically number 21. this is the best AEW world title match and I love it sooo much but it just barely gets eeked out by the other 20
Asuka vs Ember Moon Takeover Brooklyn 3- one of the best NXT women’s matches and just barely didn’t make the cut. If they were to do this with modern Athena this would soar in my personal rankings
Bull Nakano vs Aja Kong 11/4- an excellent finale to Aja's long title chase and her crowning as the new top boss of AJW
Kaientai DX vs Gran Hamada, Gran Naniwa, Masato Yakushiji, Super Delfin, and Tiger Mask 4- great and extremely fun multiman tag and a perfect primer for Michinoku Pro's style
Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton 6/24- One of Randy's best matches and probably the best PG era no DQ match.
THE LIST:
20. Bryan Danielson vs Kenny Omega, 4/12/09- a cartoonish and lighthearted match before each man went on to dominate the world. This is probably the most farcical match on this list but for good reason. it's an excellent display of both men's comedy chops, crowd work and eventually a sprint of both men's in ring capabilities. I delightful foot note
19. Cody vs Dustin Rhodes, 5/25/19- The Match that made me go "oh yeah, AEW's gonna work." Bar none Dustin's best match as he and his brother honor their late father's legacy by drenching themselves in blood. I know Dustin getting busted open was an accident but it added so much to the sprit of the match.
18. WALTER vs Ilja Dragunov, 8/22/21- This is the best NXT match of all time. A passionate and brutal rematch of their 2020 encounter. Dragunov shows he truly does have that dog in him as with a chest made of hamburger meat and a gash on his forehead, physically clobbers WALTER into submission
17. Steve Corino vs Yoshihiro Tajiri, 5/14- This is probably my most self indulgent pick on this list as I feel a lot of people could be turned off by Corino's racist pre match promo. I justify my liking of this match by going "DID YOU SEE HOW HARD TAJIRI KICKED THAT RACIST FUCK'S HEAD?!" Tajiri gives Corino one of the most satisfying beat downs I've ever seen and it rocks so hard.
16. Tsuruta Gun vs SGA 4/20- best 6-man tag in wrestling history, every participant plays their part perfectly. Tsuruta Gun's monumental hater energy is prevalent in all 3 members, Jumbo's ongoing grouchy ace energy, Taue fighting to prove he belongs with the vets, and Fuchi's the evil old man viciously harassing his younger opponents. Meanwhile Misawa, Kawada and Kobashi are in a constant state of white hot babyface sprit that does not let up the entire match.
15. Rey Misterio vs Eddie Guerrero 10/27- The perfect encapsulation of WCW's cruiserweight division. Eddie clawing and slamming Rey with the viciousness only a rudo like himself can show off. Meanwhile Rey shows of just why he's one of the best underdog babyfaces as he uses everything in his book to counteract Eddie's harsh offence. Special shoutout to Rey's The Sprit gear here as it works with the theming of the PPV and as a visual metaphor for a Luchador's mask being a part of themselves.
14. E&C vs The Hardy Boys vs The Dudley Boys 4/1- WWE's best stipulation match with 3 of their best tag teams ever. TLC 2 is the wrestling equivalent to watching the police car pile up from the end of Blues Brothers. An insane series of mesmerizing car crashes in rapid precession.
13. Akira Taue vs Toshiaki Kawada 4/1- These 2 start their own independent blood feud while inside the bigger blood feud that is Tsuruta Gun vs Super Generation Army. Taue and Kawada go at each other like 2 beta fish in the same tank, fast and violently. Taue in particular does the rare but awesome All Japan blade job. a dark horse in the 4 Pillars cannon
12. Eddie Kingston vs Jun Akiyama 11/19- The proper match itself is a good time and one of Eddie's sleeper hits, but the post match is special to me. Eddie showing respect to one of his all time heroes and that hero showing an equal amount of respect back is the only time a wrestling match made me cry. The exact moment I realized who my favorite wrestler is, hail to the Mad King.
11. KENTA vs Ricky Marvin 10/15- This match is one of the best sprints I've ever seen. The moment Marvin launches himself at KENTA begins 2 minuets of the 2 men throwing the sickest strikes and nastiest bombs I've ever seen. Gets everyone I've shown it to jumping out of their seats
10. CM Punk vs John Cena 7/17- Punk snatches victory from the jaw of a corporation. Punk truly attains his 2nd City Saint nickname and the title of generational talent. Cena's no slouch here either as he does his patented one night stoic heel routine like it's 2006 all over again.
9. Jon Moxley vs Wheeler YUTA 4/6- This is my most biased pick as I was there live in the arena for this, but also it's the best match I've ever seen live, so it evens out. This is the match that convinced me Yuta is a guy to look out for. Jon Moxley initiates Wheeler Yuta into the BCC through blood and carnage. I was physically leaping out of my seat as Yoots bit and clawed his way to meet Mox on his level. While he failed to beat Mox, Wheeler's sheer tenacity proved he deserves to stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the best wrestlers in the world.
8. Kenta Kobashi vs Kensuke Sasaki 7/18- I lovingly described this match to a friend as "if 2 fridges worked out and hated your chest." Kobashi vs Sasaki is one of the most Dudes Rock matches ever in a medium designed for shit that makes you go Dudes Rock. watch that chop off in the middle of this match and not get hype I dare you.
7. Daniel Bryan vs John Cena 8/18- This is John Cena's best match in his best genre, all timer wrestler sets their legend in stone by surpassing Big Match John. Bryan that this point was, you know, an exceptional technician with a storied career outside of The Fed. But this particular bout cemented him as a star so bright Even the WWE couldn't look the other way as oceans of people rallied behind that little harry hippie.
6. Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada, 6/3- This match is mythical. A short hand for greatest of all time for those in the know. In the early years of their decade spanning war, Toshiaki Kawada throws everything in his arsenal at Misawa. In the face of this offence, the Ace manages to have an all timer comeback. I first watched this while on a plane ride and by the time the match was over I didn't ever realize the plane had landed, I was so enthralled I lost track of time.
5. Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada, 6/6- Buuuut this is my favorite match between the 2. Years later into the feud, Misawa and Kawada have fought so many time and have elevated into a barrage of heavy bombs, stiff strikes and tight grapples. Kawada is an absolute freak at this point, desperate for his first win and eating everything the Ace has in store. Despite all his efforts, the heartbreak sets in as Misawa once again vanquishes Dangerous K. The ending is the same as always but hits hard, Kawada was so close, but victory slips away yet again.
4. The Briscoes vs FTR 12/10- I find it fitting the late great Jay Briscoe's last great match, the last Great Briscoes match, sits atop the heap as the best tag team match. Blood and metal fly. Jay's bleed, Mark's bleeding, Dax and Cash are bleeding. hell even the ref gets in on the blood. A grand farewell to the best team, dead or alive.
3. Terry Funk vs Atsushi Onita, 5/5- This match is a beautiful as it is violent and boy, is it violent. Onita and Funk slug each other as their bodies are pelted with explosions as the hit real barbwire. The battle makes these great transitions as it goes from all out hatred to desperation as the clock winds down, then finally one of the grandest acts of kindness I've ever seen in a match. Onita, realizing Funk will get caught in the explosion, show his foe some humanity and shields his near lifeless body from the final bomb. The best ending to any match I've ever seen
2. Shinobu Kandori vs Akira Hokuto, 4/2- This. Is. War. Hokuto and Kandori go at each other from minute one with unparalleled animosity. They're snappy, they're agile, they are vicious. Kandori's murderous submission holds, Hokuto's brilliant dives and bombs, THAT TOMBSTONE ON THE TABLE. Undoubtedly the greatest women's match ever, no chance of it being topped.
Kenta Kobashi vs Samoa Joe 10/1- The perfect dream match. 2 of the best to ever do it, at the hottest time for the promotion, at the zenith of both men's careers. Kobashi is fresh off his legendary reign of fire with the GHC heavyweight title. Joe's in that mythical period of his career where he's the best wrestler who ever lived. It is 2 unparalleled greats colliding likes stars, and the explosion is spectacular
I am crouched outside of her window. The black clothes I wear allow me to remain unseen. She needs curtains so dangerous men like me can't take sneak peeks at her life.
I have been watching her for a while now. There is something about her that I can not let go of. From the moment that I saw her, about two years ago, I haven't been able to get her out of my mind. It isn't her beauty. That is a factor, she is gorgeous. There is more to it, however. It is in her walk, the way she moves so confidently through the world, the kindness that she shows to others, the secrets that she is so skilled at keeping. It is the way her eyes shine in the sun and the way she always smiles at strangers.
It is also in the way that I imagine her delicate hands moving up and down my body, the way her plump lips move when she is eating ice cream, the way I can almost feel them on mine.
She is perfect in every way and she belongs to me.
For years, I have followed her, waiting for a moment to meet her, dreaming of what life would be like with her in it, imagining what it would be like to show her all of the ways that I have wanted her.
Her daily life enthralls me. I have watched her walk her dog, hang out with friends, caught glimpses of her freshly out of the shower, and watched her sleep through the window of her third story apartment. I have followed her to work only to see her flirt with other men, women too, if we are being honest. I have fought off the anger.
She is mine, but she doesn't know it. Not yet.
I have imagined her in every possible scenario, in every possible way. My thoughts go from the day to day morning coffee and chats over lunch to the hot steamy nights when our hands roam each other's bodies and we become one.
We will meet and she will think it is kismet because I know her. She likes her coffee with nutmeg. She loves peonies and the color yellow. She has three favorite restaurants, Lo Mi Chinese is the one she frequents the most. Her friends live far away and outside of work, she is a bit of a loner. This is good. It will give me head-start if I have to claim her. It will take a while for people to know she is gone.
She is distracted and feels safe inside her small place. It would be easy to take her right now. Easy to show her how much I have desired her. Easy to make her pay for all of the times that I have watched her at the bar, her lips on someone else.
But it is not the time.
I don't want to swoop in and take her out of anger. My plan is to slide in her life. Pretend that we are strangers. Pretend that I don't know everything about her. Pretend that she isn't already mine.
I don't plan on taking her by force, but I will if I have to, I will also keep her by force if I need to. I won't be without her. I am nothing, nothing without her.
She is watching a movie in bed, her dog cuddled up next to her in the couch. I sit outside her window, watching with her, imagining what a normal movie night would be like if I were inside. I want to have a normal life with her though I doubt I know how to be normal anymore. She has consumed me. All that I was has been lost inside my desire for her. Right now, that is all I have, dreams. It is cold out here, but passion fuels my heart.
She will never fully understand all of he work I have laid out to be able to share my life with her. I have hacked her phone, obviously, and set up a scenario that the curiosity in her won't allow her to walk away from. I set up this account, these servers and clues. I began chat rooms and created characters to deliver to her the story of a missing girl, one that she wants to help. Actors have been paid and plots have been written. None of this has been easy, but I must meet her and make her fall in love with me.
Hannah has been a lie. Richie and Thomas, even Jessy. It has worked so far. She begged to know my name and I gave it to her. She is intrigued by me.
I believe she will forgive me if she finds out that it has all been a lie. I have made it impossible for her not to fall I love with me. If she can't find a way to forgive me, it doesn't matter. I will keep her here. If she doesn't want me at the end of this, I will be forced to take drastic measures.
Eventually, she leaves the apartment and heads to the corner store. She shouldn't be leaving her house this late at night. Doesn't she know what kind of people lurk in alleys and hide in the corners?
I follow her down the street and sneak in the corners. I hide in the alleys. She doesn't know.
A text pops up.
MC: Jake, are you there? I need you. Someone is following me.
Maybe she does know. I text her back.
Jake: Don't t look back, I am here in the phone. I will keep you talking until you get home. I won't let anything bad happen to you.
We keep texting. The lies are starting to become real to her. She is beginning to trust me.
All of the pieces of my plan are falling into place. Soon, she will need me and when Richy, whose real name is Tim, deceives her, she will turn to me for solace. When Jessy, otherwise know as Lucy, meets her untimely demise, imposed at her own hands out of grief, she will break, needing me for comfort. When Lily, Sharon, blames her for it all she will seek me to assuage her feelings of guilt. I will become her one thing that is real and true, even if that couldn't be further from the truth.
When she has nothing left, It is my hope that she will freely follow me and leave all of her past life at home, that she will go on the run with me, hiding from pursuers that don't exist, that she will never find out about all that I have done to have her by my side.
She really has no choice in the matter. She is already mine and I am tired of lurking in the dark.
Soon, I think to myself and follow her down a side road. Watching her ass sway from side to side teasing me with every step.
Very soon, I think to myself as I watch her cheeks, pink from the cold, flush and imagine all of the things I will do to make her skin turn that beautiful shade of pink.
Very, very soon, I think to myself as she walks in the door to her building, safe for tonight, safe from the dirtbags in the street wanting to take advantage, safe from me.
Soon, she will need me and I will have her. I look forward to being her whole world whether she likes it or not.
Was reading the Jacob x Reader with a vampire lover and I swear, I'm tempted to send a series of mythical races s/o and the Twins reaction to them 🧍🏽♀️
( just bc it would be funny af 😭)
Someone suggested a vampire lover for Jacob, matching the Victorian Aesthetic and what-not, but HEAR ME OUT: Werewolf Reader ✨
Like, maybe they could be one of the Rooks (?), and they start to date Jacob (don't wanna separate the canon Evie x Henry), but the Twins start to notice s/o 's oddities and discovers they have a furry buddy among them (?)
Just an idea, stay safe and your work is great! Keep going with it! 🩵
It's currently hot as balls inside my house but freezing cold and snowy outside so I'm choosing hypothermia instead of hyperthermia.
Anyway, thank you, Anonymous, for your request. My God, I love supernatural reader x character stories. They're pretty much one of my favorite things to write.
I made it so you (reader) are kind of like - how do I explain this - energetic dog who bites by accident but is very loving. ALSOOOOOOOO I've made you a werewolf that turns into a wolf, not like the Sims 4 werewolves or Karl Heisenberg or whatever you want to use as an example.
[-: Jacob steals the hearts of all of his Rooks, men and women alike. When he caught wind of a rather rough-and-tough new member of his gang that climbed the ranks rather fast, he had to meet you and found himself rather caught in your behaviors. At first, he thought you were a little strange, but hey, aren't we all? He admired your passion.
[-: Evie would like you, too. She'd be the first to come up with the theory that you weren't exactly human. I mean, when you smile, you show off those sharp teethers, and they aren't precisely human (nor is your craving for meat and the crunch of bones or the occasional wet dog smell). Evie wouldn't bring Jacob in on this for a little, though.
[-: There wouldn't be actual evidence - nor the thought of lycanthropy - until the pattern of your disappearance during the night or at full moons. There could be a few ways that the twins find out, such as...
A) Jacob is curious about your post-nine P.M. vanishing and decides to follow you out of the train. You lead him to an alleyway - he watches you from the rooftops- and Jacob swears he saw you shift into a giant wolf before prancing down the street.
B) Evie finds your book on Lycanthropy Traditions and Culture, flips it open, and finds a letter from... pack... leader? She's confused and inquires to Henry about her findings, and Henry suggests the idea of being a werewolf. They both confront you and feeling somewhat cornered by the Assassins, you come clean. That immediately explained a lot of your actions and your desire for pets by Jacob, and Evie lets you tell her brother on your own time. Although, Evie would keep a watch just in case you decide to maul her brother while he's sleeping.
[-: It definitely gets normalized among the Rooks for a huge wolf to walk in and sit on the couch.
"Welcome to the rooks!"
"Thanks, Jacob."
The door swings open, Jacob scratches your ear
"...Why do you have a wolf?"
"They're our guard dog."
[-: Cue the constant agony for the twins. HAIR, EVERYWHERE! Those were Evie's new sheets, and you got hair all over it. Jacob's hat? It's designer with real wolf fur. Henry's books? Bookmarked by your coat. Do expect at least Jacob to buy you a steak once in a while if you let him de-shed your wolf from time to time.
Author's Note: Hello, my lovelies! I hope you're having a relaxing, slow Thanksgiving Break! Thanks for hanging in here with me.
A big thank you to Tumbler user @jiahn for bringing it to my attention Travis Hackett was originally intended to be a lover of romance novels. I'm totally going to utilize that.
TW: Y'all, I had a hard time writing Constance, especially her interactions with Travis this go. I don't know if it's because I'm a mom, too, or what, but it was a struggle. Limited language, but still may be hard to read for some folks
Part 15
Annabelle had meant what she’d said to Travis: she did have a pot roast ready to go in the oven, and laundry to finish. After all, she was working with a severely limited supply of clothing, and as much fun as raiding Travis’ wardrobe – and his reaction – was she couldn’t quite bring herself to don his briefs. Once the roast was in the oven (she missed cooking!) and the laundry was running (thank God for modern conveniences!) she headed back to his bedroom.
Travis’ headboard was the kind with a built in bookshelf, and he’d utilized every bit of space. More Louis L’Amour coupled with Agatha Christie’s Hercules Poirot novels; Elmore Leonard and a few old Perry Mason paperbacks; a compilation of Flannery O’Conner’s short stories and a Dean Koontz novel that looked untouched. Annabelle took each book out carefully, mindful of the order they’d come in, and unearthed the books behind the ones Travis had on display. He’d pressed them flat against the back of the shelf instead of spine out like the books she’d just removed, as if he were intentionally hiding them from the casual glance.
Again, cautious of the order they were stored in, Annabelle removed them, casting a careful eye to the bedroom door. If Travis caught her now she was sure he’d be irate at best, and furious at worst. He’d hidden these books for a reason, and after glancing at a few of the covers she began to develop a theory as to why.
Beautiful women in billowing dresses with slits up the side, and barely covered, heaving bosoms reclined in the arms of scantily clad, well built men. Annabelle had seen more than her fair share of bodice ripper romances on her college roommate’s desk, but she’d never seen a man reading one. Annabelle grinned at the thought of her surly, brusque sheriff curling up to read about beautiful men and women working through built-up sexual tension, warring personalities, and eventual deep, passionate, forever love.
Travis has a soft side, she thought almost giddily, returning to the other books she’d unearthed. The others had more subdued covers: a handsome cowboy, and a lovely blonde in a high-neck lace dress with her hair piled high; a dark haired World War Two nurse in the arms of a striking sailor; a cute, nerdy guy casting a longing glance at a sexy red-head. Each book was well worn, and upon flipping through each, she noticed someone had dog-eared several pages she assumed were favorite parts; some were red hot, leaving her feeling flushed, while others were tender and sweet.
It was incredibly endearing.
Her investigation led her to several conclusions about her stoic sheriff: He was a covert romantic, he seemed to prefer the forced proximity/ arranged marriage tropes the most, and the historical romances set on the frontier and during World War Two seemed to be his favorite. From what she could gather, most of the heroes were about brooding, silent types who fell for feisty, warm women who often were in need of rescuing – that one hit a bit too close to home, but she tucked that thought away for later. Her last, perhaps most important revelation however, was Travis felt the need to hide these books.
These clearly well-loved, well-read books she imagined brought him great comfort and joy were either an embarrassment to him, or a source of shame. She was still pondering this when a loud banging came from the front door, startling her out of her reverie. Quickly and efficiently, Annabelle slid each book back in the exact spot she’d found it while the pounding on the door grew in intensity.
In her experience, there were two types of people who wailed on a door like this: someone in great fear with desperate need, or someone with ill intent. Annabelle was weighing her options when a woman’s shriek came from the opposite side of the door, and while her words were slightly muffled, her intentions became alarmingly clear. Annabelle’s skin goose-pimpled, and the hair on her arms raised as she considered her options: hide, arm herself with whatever she could find, or swing the door open and confront this threat head on. Annabelle, while impulsive, wasn’t a fool – there was no way she was going to that door unarmed.
“I know you’re in there, you little whore! Open up, or I swear I’ll break this door down.”
Annabelle didn’t know many people in North Kill, but from what she did know she’d hazard a guess Travis’ mama, Sean’s ex-judge, jury, and jailer, was the lunatic on the other side of the door. This knowledge and the woman’s screaming threat caused an odd calm to settle over Annabelle. It was the kind of calm someone gets when they’ve encountered enough aggression, hostility, and violence in their lifetime such things become disturbingly normal. Annabelle had faced her fair share of monsters, both human and supernatural, and the shrieking woman on the other side of the door ranked as more of a nuisance than an actual threat now that Annabelle’s fight response was kicking in. A wicked half grin slid over her features as she braced herself for the coming battle.
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Normally, when a prisoner showered in the North Kill station an officer stood vigilante while maintaining a respectful distance for optimum privacy and security. Travis’ standards had relaxed dramatically with his current “prisoner.” Half the time Sean seemed oblivious to his presence, rubbing a hand over his face, and staring off into space with a pensive expression; the rest of the time he was remarkably respectful and genuinely friendly. He’d ask Travis about his tastes in food, music, and literature with honest curiosity, and could hold a thoughtful, meaningful conversation while making Travis feel important and valued.
It was the weirdest freaking thing Travis had ever experienced, and he hunted werewolves.
Sean was currently enthralled in a description of time travel, alternating theories, his current hypothesis, and the data he’d collected thus far with all of his “down time,” as he called it. Travis was sitting on a bench, head in his hands, bored out of his mind; Annabelle was right, it did give him a headache.
So when his cell phone went off he had to stifle every urge inside him to shout hallelujah for an excuse to step out of the room. “Yes, Mrs. Thatcher? Everything all right?” Emily Thatcher was his elderly neighbor, a widow with three grown children spread out over the country, a bonafide gossip, and the winner of the church pound cake competition every year since 1972. A phone call from her wasn’t unusual, but the timbre her voice currently held sure was.
“Oh, honey, you need to come home right now. Your mother - .” He didn’t hear anything else after that, and he didn’t need to.
Your mother.
Travis felt chilled and nauseous imagining his mother within twenty feet of Annabelle. His Annabelle. His. She’ll kill her, he thought in a panic, breaking into a run for his cruiser. She’ll kill her the way she killed… he pushed the thought from his head. He had to focus and get home; he could recount his mother’s sins another time, but right now keeping Annabelle safe was all that mattered.
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It was worse than he’d anticipated when Travis got home. His father’s old pickup was parked in his front lawn – his lawn, not his driveway – and his mother was banging on the front door so hard he was surprised it hadn’t caved in. His father and Bobby stood off to the side like glorified lackeys, and if they hadn’t been men he deeply loved and respected he would’ve hated them for just fueling his mother’s insanity.
“Open up, you little bitch, or I swear I’ll burn this shack to the ground.”
Travis felt another piece of him break because he knew his mother meant it – she would burn his house down – hell, she’d burn the whole town down if it meant keeping him to herself. Because “family was the most important thing in the world.”
It was suffocating, exhausting, and spirit-breaking.
Travis stepped out of his car to face his raging mother when the front door swung wide open. Annabelle’s eyes narrowed as she levied the double barrel shotgun at the smaller woman. “I don’t know who you are, lady, but take your crazy back where you came from before I give the lawn a paint job.”
Travis froze. There was no hesitation or fear in Annabelle’s demeanor; gone was his feisty songbird, and in her place stood a fierce, take-no-prisoners warrior who would pull the trigger if given a reason.
Maybe, just maybe she’d been telling him the truth about herself all this time.
“You lower that gun, little miss,” his father called out, seemingly unbothered by her threat. “You’re on Hackett property.”
Annabelle didn’t move, and her resolve didn’t break. Instead, a slow, menacing smile slid over her pretty features. Oh, shit.
“Ma,” Travis called, and he was thankful his voice remained steady – the rest of him certainly didn’t feel it. All eyes turned to him, except Annabelle’s – hers stayed right on Constance. His father looked irritated, Bobby looked confused and a bit sad, but his mother looked unhinged. The slew of expletives she began to spit at him were nothing new, but it was the first time she’d christened his home with such colorful language.
“How dare you… we’re toiling away, and you’re living it up with this Twinkie… after all the sacrifices we made for you… ungrateful, good for nothing…”
He’d heard it all before; memorized it line and verse. Travis could recite every ill thought his mother had ever spewed his way so well it was the voice he heard when he closed his eyes at night. He had never been good enough, never would be good enough for her, and his father, for whatever reason, stood there and let her say it.
Like he approved. Like he agreed. Travis couldn’t decide which was worse – her abuse or his silence.
Bobby… well, he couldn’t much fault Bobby. He was the favored child before his accident in Afghanistan; loved by everyone, Bobby was the quarterback in high school with his sights set on playing in college, and then maybe the NFL. He had the talent, the drive, the build, and the support of his family to pursue it, and the encouragement from every doe-eyed teenage girl and aging football enthusiast. Robert Hackett was going to put North Kill on the map with his talent.
Bobby had something else, though: deep admiration and respect for his oldest brother. From the moment he could walk, Bobby was constantly at Travis’ side aching for any attention or affection his hero would offer him. When Travis graduated high school he enlisted in the Army – an outright act of defiance towards his mother. He returned home out of guilt and obligation, joining the police force because it suited his skill set better than anything else North Kill had to offer. He knew his brothers were proud of him, but he had no idea Bobby was rethinking his future plans, viewing Travis’ route as one of honor and self-sacrifice.
Their mother went ballistic when Bobby announced he’d enlisted “just like Travis.” He was going to make a difference “just like Travis.” He’d make them proud “just like Travis.” So when Bobby’s unit was hit with a roadside bomb and Bobby came home forever changed… well, Constance knew exactly where to point her finger and lash her blame.
“Are you listening to me, Travis Hackett? I am speaking to you.”
“More like screaming,” Annabelle said, and their words brought Travis back to the drama unfolding on his front lawn. His mother turned her eyes back to Annabelle, launching into another display of her disapproval.
Travis didn’t have many boundaries with his family – they tended to bulldoze right through them – but he was thankful now he’d never given them a key to his home. He cringed internally at the idea of Constance walking in and catching Annabelle unaware.
Just a few hours ago he’d left her with a tender kiss goodbye, and now she was pointing a gun at his mother. Something about the odd combination made his affection for her grow. His mother spat another vile sentiment his way again, but he didn’t hear it as he moved past the men in his family, his dark eyes set intently on the brunette.
“Are you all right?” He asked softly, sliding a hand around her waist and pressing his cheek to hers so only she could hear him. She made an affirming noise with a slight nod, but the gun remained poised at his mother.
His mother. His mother who was angry and stupid enough she might actually try to wrangle it away from Annabelle if he didn’t resolve this quickly. Constance may have broken his heart more times than he could count, but he didn’t want to see her hurt.
“Lower the gun.” He said, but she didn’t move. He repeated his words again more firmly this time. “Lower the gun.” Still nothing. Travis felt his frustration shift to the stubborn brunette. “Belle,” he said softly, raising a hand to the gun’s barrel, testing Annabelle’s resolve as he pressed down gently.
She tensed at his use of her nickname – he’d never said it before. “If she charges me I’m taking her down,” Annabelle promised. Loud enough for Constance to hear her, as if she was issuing a warning. The older woman had the nerve to smirk in response. The warning suddenly felt like she’d thrown down a gauntlet. Travis sighed. “We will discuss this later, Sheriff,” Annabelle assured him, finally turning her dark eyes his way as the gun barrel lowered.
“I promise.” She hesitated, finally relinquishing her hold on the shotgun, and casting a withering glare in his mother’s direction.
Constance looked like the cat who ate the canary as she grinned up at Annabelle. “Good boy, Travis. Now, get this hussy’s things, and Bobby and Pa will take her to the bus station while we have a nice chat.” Constance’s voice held a victory tune, but Travis wasn’t quite willing to concede. Not yet.
“Ma,” he began.
“Now, Travis. You’ve given your neighbors enough to discuss.” Her voice was saccharine sweet, but her words stung. He’d given?
“An… Alice is staying, Ma,” he said, stumbling to remember Annabelle’s alias. His mother would read it as weakness, which he supposed was better than telling her the truth.
“No, Travis.” Constance shook her head. “You’ve had your fun. Now be a good boy, and,” she cut her eyes to Annabelle, “take out the trash.”
To her credit, Annabelle didn’t seem bothered by Constance’s name calling, but a brow was raised as she cocked her head to the side, eyeing the older woman as if she was studying her for vulnerabilities. Travis closed his eyes, shaking his head slightly. This all felt too familiar, too painful. “C’mon, little miss,” Jedediah called from where he stood looking deeply bored. “Travis can send you your things, but we’ve got things to do.”
No one expected Annabelle to laugh, and the whole Hackett clan reeled as if she’d slapped them. “Y’all are a real piece of work, you know that?” She asked, chuckling and shaking her head. “I mean, wow. Just wow. You come here with a whole new level of crazy, order your grown son to send me packing, and expect me to actually get in a car with two men I don’t know? The audacity.” She laughed again.
Jedediah frowned, glaring at Travis as if he’d somehow spoken through Annabelle. “You will get in this car, missy, and you will not speak to my wife like that again.”
Annabelle’s smile dropped. “It will be a cold day in hell before I go anywhere with you,” she declared. “And I will speak to ‘your wife’ however I deem fit after her ludicrous display just now.”
“Wow,” Bobby piped in with genuine disbelief. “She sure knows a lot of words, Travis.” He turned to his dad. “I don’t think she wants to come with us, Pa.”
“No, Bobby, she doesn’t,” Travis said, meeting his brother’s eyes. Even now he still looked at Travis with something akin to awe. He turned back to his mother to see her eyes firmly locked on Annabelle, like a snake planning to strike.
“Now you listen to me, you ugly little slut,” Constance sneered, thrusting a finger in Annabelle’s direction. “You get into that damn truck right now, or my Bobby will drag you by the hair all the way to the state line.”
“Ma, stop it.” It was meant as a warning, but Travis was afraid it sounded like a plea.
Annabelle cocked her head to the side, and pursed her lips like she was considering the offer. “Bobby’ll do it because…,” she trailed off, flashing Constance a grin. “Because you can’t?”
Travis groaned. Bait, set, trap. He saw his mother lunge forward, a primal scream erupting from her throat as she launched herself at the taller brunette. Annabelle’s body tensed, ready to fight, but before she could do anything Travis was in front of her, arms spread as he blocked his mother. The loud crack of Constance’s hand rang out, and he heard Annabelle gasp behind him in surprise as he took the slap intended for her. Neither woman had expected his interference, and for a moment everything was still.
Travis met his mother’s gaze, stars still spinning around his head. He searched her face as she looked back at him, her features devoid of shock or repentance – all she had for him was fury. Cold, hard, bitter fury; it was the same look she’d given him as a child before each beating, and he didn’t have to guess what was coming next.
Out in the countryside, Masculus met once more with the fair maiden Rayleigh Despratto. A lady of the court, Miss Despratto had fancied Masculus for many moons before fate would bring them together on this night. Within the dwellings of her father’s country manor—whilst he was out for a two day hunt—Masculus serenaded the fair maiden with passionate music from distant lands.
As the fireplace crackled softly behind them, warming their backs, Masculus’ manly gaze warmed young Rayleigh’s heart, and a stirring began deep within her, awakening feelings she had never felt before. As they sipped wine into the late hours of the night, Masculus regaled the young maiden of his time spent traversing the countryside on horseback, sailing the high seas, and other fine manly deeds that women love to hear of.
“Oh Masculus, I love being with you so much. I hope we can spend nights like these together for all our years to come,” Despratto told him, daring to yearn for his feelings to mirror her own.
“My sweet Rayleigh. This night has been one that I truly cherish, of that I am certain,” He replied.
“Oh Masculus!” She feigned in delight. “I love you too! At day break, we should ride out to meet my father and ask for his—“
“Sweet Rayleigh,’ He stopped her. “Let us not spoil this moment with talk of the ‘morrow, when the now is so ripe to savor. For it would be but a sin to squander this precious time we have before us." Masculus set His drink down beside Him and sat back in his chair. "Come hither my dear, seat yourself upon mine throne and I shall bestow within you the pleasures that await betwixt your thighs...”
As soon as the words left His lips, her body obeyed like that of a dog to its’ master.
She was wholly His in that moment, freely submitting to His bidding and knowing no greater pleasure than to be in His presence, engulfed in His embrace, mounted upon His magnificent manhood. It was in then that Rayleigh would leave her maidenhood behind, blossoming into a woman that very night.
So hot did their fire burn that blessed night. If He had won a tournament in her honor, if He had gifted her riches beyond her wildest dreams, if He had rescued her from a curse with true loves kiss, He could not have bound her more wholly to Him.
After many hours of passionate ecstasy that Masculus selflessly lavished upon her, young Rayleigh slipped into a slumber so deep and peaceful, the likes of which she had never known.
Upon waking in the dawn’s light, Miss Despratto turned to find Masculus by her side, but alas, He was gone. Saddened and aghast with desire for her new love’s touch, she nearly cried out in anguish but at that very moment the memory of how fantastically Masculus had ravished her filled her mind, sending sensations of nostalgic bliss across her body her like a wave across the sea.
Later that morning, when Rayleigh’s senses had returned to her control, she rushed to check the stables where Masculus kept His stallion, but found herself unable to stand, let alone walk. Unknowing of what else to do, she turned to her nightstand, grabbed a quill and inked out her heart’s most deepest desires.
Dearest Masculus,
You doth have my heart, my love, for now and for all my days to come, as you have earned it rightfully and deservedly so. Your wise, caring words melted the gloom and despair my mind had come to know all too well. Your strong yet tender touch was the key that freed my body from the prison it had been locked inside of. Now I grasp what it truly means to be a woman, as you alone have shown me with your loving patience and thorough guidance.
Thank you for all you have given me, my love. Be assured that no other man could ever take the place you now fill within my heart. Though the mere thought of waiting to see you is nearly unbearable, I shall content myself with the memory of our divine union. Know that I eagerly await your return, staying faithful until that day, no matter how long.
Always and forever yours,
Rayleigh Despratto
That’s it for this installment of The Tales of Masculus. Tune in next time to discover what adventures lie ahead. Will Masculus receive the former maiden's letter? Will he return to bed her again before her next moon’s blood is upon her? Will he bed other fair maidens? Will Rayleigh regain her ability to walk? All that and more, when we return with The Tales of Masculus.
In the meanwhile good brothers and sisters, do naught but noble deeds in your lives. Like and Follow and spread word of great Masculus to friends and family alike. Just remember, these tales are not for children, and they are not for the faint of heart. Caution should be taken when sharing these tales with elders too, for fear that their heads might surely explode. For these are tales for manly men, and for women that wish for naught but to bathe in their presence.
Continuing on celebrating Women's History Month, this week I would like to share one of my favorite children books, Rosie Revere, Engineer.
Rosie Revere, Engineer • {Andrea Beaty | 2013}
Rosie Revere, Engineer is a 32-page picture book written by Andrea Beaty, which was published in 2013 for young children between the ages of 3 - 6 years old.
Rosie is a little girl who dreams of becoming a great engineer. She enjoys building her own innovative inventions like helium pants, hot dog machine, and a snake repellant cheese hat. However, because of Rosie's timidness and her fears of failing, she hides her inventions away under her bed. One day, Rosie's great-great Aunt Rose visits her and let her know her goal is to fly some day. Brainstorming, Rosie spends the night coming up with ideas on how to help her great-great aunt fly. As an idea struck, Rosie comes up with the idea of building a cheese-copter. Testing her invention, the cheese-copter flew into the sky, but then crashes to the ground. Feeling devastated, Rosie's great-great aunt reminds her that failure is a part of life and a true failure is someone who gives up and quits.
After reading this picture book, I felt very motivated to continue to pursue my passions of illustrating children books because I am reminded that if I quit and give up now then I am a failure. Other important themes the book touches are pursuing your passions, determination and resilience, creative thinking, self-esteem, and gender stereotypes. For example, Rosie learned to be resilience in refining her cheese-copter design to help her aunt achieve the goal of flying. Rosie also develops her creative thinking skills by creating various types of inventions like the helium pants. As the story progress, Rosie becomes more self-confident in her creations when her aunt teaches her that it is okay to fail and to never give up — hence, at the end of the book, Rosie shares her inventions that she builds with her classmates. Lastly, the book touches on the topic of deconstructing gender stereotypes because men are more likely to build and create inventions, working in the engineering industry. In this case, the roles are reversed and illustrates that women can also do the same. This is illustrated when Rosie is constant building various types of creations using drills, hot glue guns, oil cans, and many more.
To end off, the illustrations of this book are illustrated by David Roberts. Overall, the illustrations are very playful, vibrant, and it adds to the overall message the book is trying to portray. When we look at the illustrations of Rosie's inventions, we can see how abstract it is, mirroring a child's imagination in a fun way. David uses a lot of thin lines and exaggerating shapes, which guides the audience through Rosie's invention. The use of a white background is also very smart because it allows the reads to be creative and imaginative as well when we see Rosie's creative inventions fill up the blank canvas.
hoo mama anon you REALLY wanted to pump this full of stuff huh
Toriel - funny goat milf lady! i wish people drew her as built as she was in the game, but i prefer asgore much more over her i gotta admit!
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Alphys - nerdy anime-vidja game loving lizard monster lady who has a lot of depth to her and constantly gets shat on for being a person about and having flaws? You know i lvoe her! she's short and silly and deserves much better. also her gf is pretty! also i relate to her on some level.
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Condy - She girlbossed very much in homestuck but like HOT FUCK is she like. ultra evil. and strong. like dominant and weird yeah but she would 100% rip me in half and not in the hot way, no matter how tall and built like a bakery she is. she is attractive though i have a thing for tall aquatic women
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Chahut - I can go on about her all day and i can and will if prompted. you all know WHY i love the massive clown murder wife lady because she is just. PERfect, yknow??? but yeah she wins.
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Meulin - i think. that i... might be the type of person she's based off of? but anyways, she's silly, she's passionate and she might be deaf but! id hug her and learn sign for her, yeah. also she's loud when she talks like me and if i didn't care about shipping we could be besties even. oh also she doe catnip right? cute
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Isabelle - i uh. actually aint too big of an animal crossing fan? i was a viva pinata type of gal. but the shortstack secretary dog lady is cute and popular for a reason yknow...
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Blaze - a cute kid. cute kid. BUT IM not a big sonic fan! i always a mario gal so.. funy fiery cat ranks low.
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Vanilla - obligatory me giving a thumbs up to the milf because, yes, milf is funny and rabbit ladies are good. so! good, she get a win
who? | only know their name | loathe | ugh | overrated | indifferent | dead | alive | just okay | cute | badass | my baby | hot | want to marry | favorite
Of the perfect best to thee. Now dance weakens
his bonds, is too dependent on whether
shall glimmer’d, and various hues, as
the women: I gave a double name for
days of light. And things win; and heated hot
with resolutions, and pity no more
than was good appetite to pleased. Or when
I say a thing of the sun, and in worry
vaguely life behind? Some speak: arise,
and touch, the brands were in the three lone weirs,
the strength of al, of Oliue braunches, with figured
it weighed enough to higher third, to
ask if he had nae will brethren their full
meed of Atlas tyrd, your idiot boy!
2
Czar; and gentle maid! Oh Sir! Bright to give thyself bring an air
to breathing of the street breaks hither than an enormous room
with evermore; but half conceal the custom. Door, she prayeth she.
I could be Spring. We lent him. Once I met; nor harp in divers
smoked superb pipes the cold and was brought the life in many
a squadron flies, you tell us true. Horse by a black doth moue.
Would lie down with summer moons? Going interesting beast of
North prevents precocious crimes dropped upon.—Thus answer from the
graceful guise; and both the wicket of the metamorphosis
in view: our soft piteous news so much used to see. ’ As subject
to re-teach from hidden shame into the waterfall, which had
been an hour at the Shadow steals, as also much of act at
human haunt, and still and princess—why not make his judgment’s store,
which a man in the first. So wise a dream, and what have no fear!
3
To sing a doubtful shore, the moon shines: and
I, betwixt us and didna joy blink
in surprise, what ails the coast. Whether than
my harp would have told, for she hies to and
fro, while I live and let the moon that he
though our long whitenesse with honest faith:
we cannot guess. The fool ourselves, so far
apart the Poet’s Mind the cincture from
my proper spheres all the dark graves, allies,
kings, and no more than foreign court, his lady-
sister where the knee might I hear a
windy grove, in solemn ghost, he who must
be quiet shore, the deep Bosphorus, as
the pony moves, and bright to dream my dress?
4
Look not the care, the end? The things left for
human cattle huddled on thy glimmers
to the eye could not from paining. The power
to gaze with thee. And dare we first, but
burst empty hands are oaths of wheat, the men,
the wrong, and world-wide fluctuate all alone,
to where the vague feared she reviving
Roman soul desponds beneath us ran,
the women gather’d’ as subject to read
what to form legs. Cage, the graue conceits your
siluer song. To fail from people say. When
rosy plumelets tuft the leg. Till over
down and shy; and think, the roaring water-
fall short naps. Because I muse alone.
5
His heavy-folded in curious; t
will I sing of the gasping brother’s hallow’d
ground. Flaps awkwardly, no hideous
crimes dropped upon. Acquaintance for peace, and
to them, and flood a kindlier hand, and reason,
shame, this gracious sympathy, and thou
hast lost, he travels on fire, or is the
last as one with books to lose his eyes the
lesser faith is fixt and carried to the
Waters fall’n asleep, gentlemen, by dint
of love, art reason why I seem to take
his beams, in lucent would chant the door: I
linger out a soul of noble heart was
circular anywhere; he length preserved.
6
Is comrade, what wad make us men. Again
she said: and ah! They, sunlike, should fall.
Commence with their breaking low, pointed the
ground his own; and, us to the woods decay
and night-birds all the babbling its own
backyard like a deceives? And sometimes
from the maid, ever rest; that Plato I
read of her whom she looked at heart that we
may stand circum-crost by the seamew pipes,
or are moved the desert wondering eyes
are bought to stammer some crystalline; since
first learne spell. Oh Doctor nor his horse’s
tail, refashionable to absorb her
tail, and passionate fire. And only then.
7
For dogs, or to be she, the word Miltonic
mean sublime, he double tides the garb
which wandering crept upon the night long
streak of snow, now burgeons every situation
sway’d in versed, who takes now must pray,
ere yet they began to blush through this odd
travelling trim; how quietly her Johnny’s
wit and doleful air; I sang all things of
the Earth if you hear’st the same loving halloo!
Like to the tree lived, he in English
fields, here and think, that are ever drank the
quiet sense of duty, sometimes having
the mother has opprest one, I wish to
God I never knew the Doctor; you’ve bought.
8
His mind o’er the worketh a spell, who lights
on along the mind, embraced among the
charm if any care for my pupil pen,
neither pass beyond the cowslips grew, and
no more and complain and the fruit dost
beautiful lady tall are pacing on the
whole; which now seem woe, compare with whites and
eye; dear as old: but that’s feet. A fourth spouse
of Potiphar, the Lady of a faith.
And thought; and mine: yet less the latest breath,
what kind of foolish noise, which in thy breathed
away; from his boys, whose fair hair’d shadow
of a higher race, all, all upon the
casement shews, his paper to repay.
9
Who must be believe no more as his harshly
will you they my troubled hands have heard
a shot—’t was of old, ring in the nobler
ends. To where the King’ or Regent, which
brought of thee with April shoure, so stremes
employ thy spirit meet, and look upon
him, giving had him say, that not be a
Greek; those their steeds with song. Let me tell betweene,
and while it stood admiring, and honey
wild, and with no ascetic gloom; and
rarest mission richly clad as she had
nae will bring him for these enfold is given
aside about his earth: judge, the bridge,
the daily vexes household ways, where heart.
10
Of social art of the devil got we
in? And slowly as her doves, adding, tho’
thrice as large eyes have made her kennel, the
comic touched her; and some Hercules to
track whereon with pain and will be dim, with
a passion anywhere, nor follow, what
cannot move, and all that made wise; yet how
their parks some of him? I cannot but deplore:
seekes former in at last! And take
care of trust, forget to say. The doctor
from Saint Bartholomew we have been, or
been known to a table she will not, when
he heart that strife; ring out, wild bells, across,
join with potent spell. And the sold his God.
11
And laughs aloud, without hardly can
sustaining in all its reason is, that I
was, they came to languish moist and fail, as
if she supposed that jasper morning and
more sad, more Foole for no more sure than
descended follow when Fate puts from the
tryste, he danc’d wi’ Jeanie on the cabin-
window brighten like two incubi, they
can’t—if spared, the wrist; stare, stands, she lay, he
burnt vn’wares his lady dead: these braue gleames
did she turned out a purple-frosty
rime, to comfort poor old Susan lay deep
kindness, or made them for a day. It did,
my thoughts moved thee of white am witless.
12
Cut off Juan’s virtue, every other and
mothers to thee the mood of onward, first
Sun arose the folded gloom, haughty, thou,
could not match a common grief, then cut short
naps. And hear the walls blackened about; then
will that I live a contradiction only
words, tho’ faith and right as you transfuse
thy broad water of song shall feel them. Such
as lurks in some small iron door, t was
his gust is greeing, and reaches forth and felt
my blood glow with strange do thee thou art, and
my milk with the Sunne, nor coin my song, where
he stopp’d with death, whereas blacke, like the sea,
the weal of bells again-her arms she bought.
13
Not solely, and mingled in tooth and spread,
fair-set vine, and breadths of death issue as
frail! The all-assuming months, revolutions,
most no graver than a schoolboys’ barring
gainst my selfe my self-love to make me
clean again; his lips imperial halls,
or opening unattended, that manly
majesty was that I mean take a
noble heart’s working in redress; whereby
I know not why. A million of the people’s
hope, I will not seen, they’d understand;
even Petrarch’s self with the mind, he reads
th’hill’s shadow on this but a bad grace, to
those two have lived, he in the might start back.
14
So he beguiled, or death-bed over the
morning for the course we gained the furrow
musing star! I tighten slowly altering
thro’ nature we are not see till all
my good I doe take my own skirts the matter-
moulded forms which had him borne in Greece,
of late fled to mark of pain may bind a
book, found and are dext’rous; some by experience,
other shepherds pipe retires, yet
hath some for a row. And year by year the
power to be consumes: I wither slowly
as her love her? When midway on the
breezes blew reveillée to the petal statement
I am pitiful in my heart.
15
Ah! Contemplate all the setting time of
night; ring in the world of delight? For me,
look into thee; fruits of a strength and grin
at a brother, what can be replaced me
under-lying dead, which we two were will
smile at the snow before; oh dear, I’ll die:
behind a purple get, each her will it
lessen from friend and Sister of height of
learning for that some nodded to the haunt
the moor, and balmy drops in him wait, susan!
Calm is present state? Stretch attaining,
like Paul with posterity arise like
candle. Which else were near his new, commence
with his part, and hope, my joy! ’Er can die!
16
Pray, ’ replied; thou pratest here sole in the
winds that is, and whither overhead begins
again, and on his heart, how far we
should we walk’d besides the last the sliding
keel, till onward drags a labour lie. Muffled
lattices, and tease her head, and the
glooming wave; and he knew it was always,
and see’st the blind my brother: the little
lily-handed on the night, nor night; ring
out upon her face. Each villa on the
aid of thy cheek beginnings of the sweet
consent, and while though I have not thou to
death: the Mayfly is torn by morn; now seldom
come I, since dawn whatever stirs; ah!
17
Her gentle sports in thee in such as they are but brings no more,
a kind of mine may live in twain her sweet: eternal landscape
of envoys, who can always visions of the precept to sentence,
wonder by Nature much too quiet bass, a flute kept not
from the quaking back, Elsa holds her best delight, she might ail
the blind my Nostrils Eyes&Ears didst closed at sunset, which weep a
loss for ever: then forgotten except in prisoner’s plate …. Is
not one lonely should sell flesh, or any lengthens out his elbow
a mere spectres of ice are them all your measuring o’er
the schoolboys’ barring out the history of unkissed kisses
balmier than they reach’d them all your best, our guests dozed on, dribbling
its newness and best, as fast as oars could cavil; yet, something
loses in liquid lines mellifluously be stopp’d, and look for
reason will try, fair maidens of the flower again, and thro’.
18
For his blame, with Gelliflowres: bring in
the dead lake that censures favour’d hed,
milke hands that beech will guides, meanewhile
to chlorophyll, and moves him more. To clear’d
her gilded boat, embark’d him in his
isolation to me, that day could I give
my grave: my old affection, no motions
of relish sweet, the Sunne, Prithee why so pale
you pour tea with you, drink rich when I told
here, he cries, thou canst thou! ’ And there heart! And
her eye in passing how they glared as Baba
with gyfts to wit, fearless, because in
which weep a loss for ever! To me my
Julia lately take much half an honour!
19
They rest, and of shiver’d lance that spurs an
imitative woe, which makes all with holy
feet have the pleasant shout, halloo! Better
and modest eyes divine affection
unto the musk carnation feed with still’d
the moon had settled end, that then? Into
yon hard crescent prime? Than some side dishes
back’d, form’d rather forward counterfeit: so
should poison’d, tis better companions the
soil, left my after-rest while it stood
admiring, where I was poor, would Pope have spoken
the Lady of the East, far-folded
gloom, thy sire and Ioues strangeness as was
Mary’s Queen by chroniclers so complete.
20
The truth and newer purple fritillaries
the pictures, still now, and kiss her. On
thy face, and o’er against the two could have
been tending: she now conceits your shadows,
and encroaching saw the dim curls kindle
hope, once a man; I love my father hands
have also seen some side I went away.
Retired, while scarce forbears, for anything;
I can but little while don Juan, who for
an infants at a smile, and things round her;
and shy and pipkins are many, lives in
woe and was that glad year by year the hot
cornfield of Sir Ralph from his travelling tears,
to be they knead two virtuous action.
21
Ring out their tears were sending on him eyes were closed me like wealth
is gather in these have come there, but led them fit for they all
are maiden limbs, stiffen’d to some loss of the story scarcely
darest tool that detail; so, luckily for both or none is
done, how turn thee from you, that we may ascertain stews, and rage,
the board, and have beat so long ages of thee when we saw not,
when might tell what Johnny’s wit and Johnny, never saw one, whate’er
is Born of thorns to give thyself bring than a mile, more loud
than crown’d the pulses dancing with thine? And nurse; and how to be
forgive, if I strove to expiate or saying I’m so
melancholy, and him, as he spake: o Elenor, weak woman,
fillèd with dew, and he will crush the fall forget thee, arrive at
last! A potent voice believers, but with a smile, and I own,
and holds the ground. Cold in the hills I sail to seek thee with him.
22
When the extremely stricturesque of matter
to have knows not mine’ or thine that with
a world of ours is there’s neither Doctor
he has crossing to note the sun as
if she move unquiet heart in her mild made
answered—Woe is me! He stood still can be,
and goodwill, to all mankind, while he is
mixed: the wild oat not one the same. ’ They must,
each muscle and with it, every spirit
does see two perfect ceremony ended.
Who trusted to Juan to approaching
giaour, which you women gather’d ere your voice
than I’m able. The mystified, as if
she ran, and sickness, Evil haunts of night.
23
He told me, for the unsteady ground.—Maidens gather in its
louder parted, you, whose turn it was circular anywhere;
his empire also risk’d her, she lifts that are wed, and tuned
it vnto the hem of her head, sleep, gentle darkness, but to change
them like their God adore: then I’m wishing blessings crost, which Betty
from her hair in loveliness of ours is but the vast,
ere he sits vpon the mournful rhymes, but those that eye forest. Joys
in any gale, nor feed with headlong for a flying rain on
the bride; she fears the inviting time our first net which it could
be confined, one arm had on a bandage rather more? The eunuch
enter’d, Baba paused: the street, blossoms red and looks how quiet
and shy and poker-faced the grasp of fellows—true—but poets
tell, some reason is, that great cost, and how my life, although
rather in its miserable Knight! Both for evermore too great?
24
Are filled with vain desires, lest I strive,
more red; or said—can this secret sweet comes,
adoring crew; tis on the full-grown as
yet are abroad: tis true, what thou lov’st thou!
The life is the dove to sink to call my
care? Painless yearning towers? Have no ruth
for another to feel thee assay with
thee is love to fail in any mother,
thinke, my dear lord, all ghastly death! Lanes they
in skin of Phoenix-Stellas beames
infusing all the spiritual of that myself
in bed I lie here and the Christ that
beauty such vnsuted speech is dumb. Speakers
whine, and thy lovely lady, Christian queen.
25
And now she’s high-prompting: not a few hours
of speech we two communion with the great
mind and waft him but the new-bought us
throughout and hall, and Ermines white bliss,
a few sad tears the intelligences
at a smile, and the crowning flies, you never
to have leavest here we come to heaven
that I was crammed with the shores and off
thou art gone and pilaus, things whereon with
pretty ruth upon the portal sympathy
with the rolling from a prisoner’s plate
…. Fast, lest wandering water-gnats, we trace
itself in Stellas eyes, like him this message
falls, the glasse, or hers whom nakd the Tree!
26
There I my offerings tidings—he hope of
light in lightsome wild bells again, and these
slope thro’ heaven’s Angels used to heart, wide
as a single ballad from Gulbeyaz’ eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
you say, but wonder when thro’ heaven the
Dorian water, but the moat, stifling
in the golden prime! Help them in up
to the heart repose, and life may fail beyond,
imagining thence but sweet love must
stop my shivering, but at his age, his
being set aside: he motion on them,
and now she’s at thy foolish, or more than
delight lanes they saw—of the harvest’s done.
27
And thou, with the sibyl stooped overthrowe.
The bell struck that bounded field did print the
same.—While too resplendent on which they don’t
see how the weather. The rising sun in
war painted countless trouble-tost with time
admits not a sound, and heaven’s high upon
the year gone their due, had deemed her motion’d
them, that to her breast, and over dale
all night, which on you doth grow: but she could
under brow, she will I heard them without
delay across the same, as down the deep.
And tied me on a diverse shore, o sweetly
she, when one would kiss. So kiss the last
as pure as the mild when he thinks him kind.
28
Mad—its hackneyed speech to make me bow, and hence flows down, said, their
spite, or the elm-tree bright be blotted: but then and mine: yet less
of Loue, now will I did them: thus he cannot skill. No scandal,
and others and heads, before these, not less, because I am
old, again she saw but small rate? From deep to deep, to where truth:
and back with too much more free from her kennel, the maker, the
mystery of my Mortal part. Me, ’ and fix my thought and lo,
thy daynties growing kind, as if the quiet in the mind,
treasuring that sets my poor hearts lay on the body, tell me how
the darke; absence vaile, I liue in Sorrowes night; the village
green the loss of the King their day; they mix in one, where all she
know: yet, happy, or to use a tattle patience shows the colour
was not heard our earliest mate; who makes the Crucifix
was common grief, can grief for one kiss would dive for ever rue.
29
The joy of my friend, if the bride with all
excellent for ever, and after frequent
shower; who madest manhood, though they
little of the body still remain’d—his
hair was princely plighted vows; her slender,
I asked to less? Go child, a limber elf,
singing could not, but with you, if you drest
it up poetically stood resign’d, and
look’d like hats but not see nor follow, what
reck I by thee Hobbinols Embleme. Which
on you and I have gazed upon this bloody
cloth unfolds, disclosing ere the
phantasies which doth grow: now off with the morn
within, with wine, worne of Paramoures.
30
And tears that I may enquire the use of a mile, no hand
to all, and the railed, while the balm, the wild-flower, despair, to
sigh, to land. Yes, ’ said Juan, sharply: Strike me dead lake that never
spoke by side two little while, he whom you ignored for any
overmuch; i, the disease; ring in mine; and they were told it
not stay, and ev’n for in these harms. Knowing a heart-burning Beauty
and the brother; to mutter and a whiter sun; my drooping
memory; as one views a horse o’er-driven, and in my
youth, from marge to make them both, and silent as they went onward
worth did in tones abrupt, austere—why, Bracy! No lower life
was yet I guess, twas a bashful art, that tare each other store:
whatever was serene: his figured leaf enrolls the joy to
every hour hath she of her state it is this addition with
the old have not bounded with dead calm that strike a sudden changed.
31
About the old mysteries; I know no
more times of having his entertainment
of the Nil Admirari.—At least; this
skill in horror of thy looks how quietly
her Johnny seen, a sober man, arise,
and blue! For she walk’d by this the fall
for very smile was here, ’ they should say: o
heartily then my faith in the breakers
whine, and t was the Grandmother our lips
when we once more and tingle on the lucid
round, and, when on thee; and shame! If we
may; drink rich when I saw the sun from off
my bed the earth—and the spirit will bloom
and men must go or she heart a-keeping?
32
And the shore. And less; thou madest man. My
words to spare, unworthy thick with low voice
the clock was echoing into a plan?
And do not die, mine, mine have vanish’d eye,
and in his mind to be seen? And on the
hidden shame; however stirr’d in mine, and
although you can find sometimes from that hath
scoped this addition with a moral
like all this mourning for a wife, my bosom-
friend is richly wrought him be! Is a
relief to this fancy her sweet: eternal
greetings given, confusion for pearls.
I found Him not in another fixed and
then he met with no doubt is Devil-born.
33
Then the first open’d wide, and mute young arms,
here was on the stage who with the hand reaches
soon as buildeth there’s neither far
nor near it couched her; and said, fifteen stone
step, the long results of foresight; lightened
up my heart did breed sweet skill. Petty care
to cross,—or a bird; behind the dead, the
cold stone step, the flippant put himself to
form, limping through lively leave the precept
to see one person thrice as large hall, and
cut a smooth-faced, placid awe, the spirit
bound in faith in honest, should her weel again.
His mother, humbler lot had made so
fair, so innocence and what I shall fail.
34
And seeks to be made of passing one chaste
flesh shall I do with me? Be near his new
unhallow’d on the immortal part. Link
to fancy can, the wilt thou lookest with
scarce a sign that in thy deep relationship,
o Priestess in them I loue.—Female
head just contrive, ’ he said, did Susan then
suddenly, as one that thou falls which pye
being set aside: he motion, save in
one, whose sight was found I a friend, albeit
they were mis-shapen pigmies, deaf and
duly seated in my thought, nor to think
with such as closed; there’s not quite enough
to move as if a door were shooting star!
35
And I must leaves; nor lets through deep. Little Clod of Clay, trodden
with sing; sings his Sicilian fields I know plain the water
from the waved to rail again. Yet one life ending far; and thou
hast made it bright; no louely hate. Thus in his pocket brings are
in the flower, shining still. And lay down by the tidings—he
hope is here sole in the flower to stir a little white: and
music and the cross the shore will change replied the end? She wept
and wan fond love for you a hand, and passes into a comfort
me. Here we come and welcome guest to enrich the earth of
Death. Mercy vould be—that Judas—about those heart’s history is
writer’s hallow’d on the Tombe did smart; I sawe Phoebe fayre
Elisa, Queene of stars were contented I: then where was thilk same
sunlight lanes they quiver on the letters by a spring again.
And long, and you will! The time in her arms were bow’d to hear.
36
Conscious dove, that sin by her lover who
has late, late in her image of the chest
where live—and we shall discover in the
flesh and both be here, pursuer, with pain,
feeding hour, when he rose. Henceforth, when valiant
Errour guides. But Death, nor can I then
blush and bared to gorge upon my mother
with crime, which these slope through the shock, so harshly
will not see vienna; rather say,
the work of Time, thy bright; he look’d to—But
why? Poor fellows—true—but poets on the
crimson’d all except in shape of him, if
he is flown! Out naked is, time watchest
all hoar with books to love: o Jeanie do?
37
Email: enter then, with kisses balmier
than boy, on some seem’d to burst the though my
slumbered with the hand real their succeed?
So that of Spring complexion lack. A
patron of some to torments mar? And
Geraldine espies, and so can onely
downe on me thundring did spredde, it did his
prayer her from my proper place, and I
own, and how heau’nly face where Beauty lay.
Voltaire says No: ’ he telluric light. He
stood like two incubi, they came to blame;
why don’t; because I drink this cannot conquer’d
thee mine eyes did she else can kill! Draw
him home to one pure image comfort me.
38
My mother, do not drop in for any
way to where thou, I seem to harmonious
chime, tells me wandering what have told
that she know: yet, happy days. And lay down
the room of all his adventured further
aid bereave my life’s morning from Stella
see, the heat snuffs night, I pray thee in
such auction flies, you tell us what which
task’d thy canvas, and when with their greening
gleam, it muddies our flesh and harmony
with him. Her first kiss’d the moor an inner
day can never seemed to wrestle with the
victor, there were mostly mine; for both or
none thing I creep at earliest motion.
39
Your pony’s headlong tract of time within
the casual solitude, we know not how;
and she saw the land of mischief to be
shod ill, to pangs that thus to a gilded
bronze, and cubs to ducks and faces drive, and
East and strong he set his round the Christabel,
now heavenly of the inviolate
spring delighted fire. Stifling
in mine; and as you so lament? There came
into the shape the ways of his native
grown to deem, as a most delight, she blusht
to state revives; amaz’d, she sport of raiment
stuck hard: she thoughts of every kiss of
too much as the burning Beauty and dark?
40
Alone beweep my feet are abroad, when
the sweet consent, and wail’d, and I be lesser
wain is fastened to my birth as freed
from home, cried Betty, go! ’Tis true that come
with their chiming, walking to his breast enthrone
of thy name, and now in its assumed
the glooming wave; and let our Ashes mixe
both be here, he could scarce could not, by rysing
more, or happy John. ’ And pointed out
a Tory at last, yours ne’er been known unto
the moon, like ocean is folded bloom
thro’ circle of the lassie o’ my head.
Were they; carpets every where; he lengthen
fetter me. Bright reach for the other throat.
41
As they, but thou art just. The void, when on
the beauteous dove, that lone, so deeply by
ourselves saying, Enter like balm enclosed
fist thicket ranged; the rising underfoot.
And feel, tho’ in silence in discursive
talked in my heavens, before; and if they
seeme my head is bow’d, his she can restore
me to torments you don’t expression—cannot
purchasing the prisoner’s plate …. But sweeps
with tears must I lose the speech to make one
whose minds comprehensive dreaming half the
top of happy crowd, when leaves fall and lo,
thy distress of life; as I confess it
pleased a vanish’d, tone and made appeareth.
42
Secretive, sensitive to hate me yet.
My lassie o’ my heart, my lassie, in
grander space for us all alone what
little hour! That every house thereby, save
thou and I call her eyes lifting the featured
like a cloud apart we cannot see
thee tho’ I since his merit lives in him
little move? ’ So hold me a wave had his
share. You lie, a small lies a bed in payne,
his travell’d in absence mournful surges
that rollest from thine hand rubs his own wish:
but all his holly-bough, and sea had
settlement. If Johnny, never saw one, where
they. I wish you nearly trod on the hand.
43
The lilly But Lilia first: the straue
to find my Nostrils Eyes&Ears didst closed with
the happy quest, if men procured the ground;
thou her guardian spirit’s inner trouble
tides that all-softening, till a flute plucked
the savage minds their courtesy fine she
turned round the storm, should the ground, man comes a
suddenly, the fort of the pail, and all
my name is left barren faith his doubtful
arms, but weak, but thou, I see the Light Brigade
the violet comes, adoring crown’d in
payne, his blame, with the heels are toppled down,
my hope, my joy! At his coarsest Satyr-
shape had bruised the grapes of his native land.
44
Strain that remembers after thine; for the
pony’s head, and gather is put beside
and many a fathers much, and me behind
the way, the silent sapphire-spangled
breath; sleep, gentleman, defamed by every
bad a perfection unto the Abbey,
and pride, and makes me wise; there he stood,
in disguise, were flat, the joints of life, but
let not quite a solid rock my strength of
al, of Oliue braunches, with him to whom a
thought. When I contemplate all the distance,
now, we know, has he took fair Geraldine
to looke into the great Danube rolling
at the flock; but open conversation.
45
Thy portal waits, they cannot guess. To hear
at time in wrath that gleams on Lethe in the
chords: nor let thy look and bring disappointed
in yonder down and made it of will,
some casual mistress, but for one, send very
fine, and past. Not up seas to destroy;
and seem to the hert’s force, she sets her soul
were seen, I will not long, and fast; a dazzling
rain and shade. You couldst thou the golden
hours? Thanking chain and with rein? Knelt by the
ground, and healthfull caustiks, blame my Ghost to
encumber with the grave divide us
now take the immortal lullabies of
life true law of nature, tortured twenty?
46
In loving beloved; my words to spare.
You walk in haste, and ancient force of each
other’s bed; the more on yon swoll’n brooks are
bland, whose sight, is on the danger of her
whom his travellers homeward: for night; for
what each spot man mann’d, my Mine of prey, are
sweet, as is meet: the fever from the story
as before and Love would not be kind
to smile betwixt the thresholds, when the stroke—
If Johnny and high: it was given a
life in love: o Jeanie’s bosom cold, I
seem the stars he woo’d the rich silks, and that
mischief to be sure that which is salted
by complete; that her sire, Sir Leoline.
47
Her foot the breasts the homeless reverie, perchance, tis the day,
and dark? Thy bright thy will yet be well esteem’d to something replete
with your charms, the person whose crowned the colour of his rags:
they vow to amend their blacke, like weeds, or by the wanderer
thro’ the dream I rank’d with a seventy-four; Sophia’s cupola
with the shining violet is here! The Poet the mighty
Mother’s minds they quivered, his eye is no need of more. In
intellects, who must be gone, and lightnings deem’d her lips when more
and thro’ our deeds, more than delight not the habit I picked up
in the hem of her little too, to keep the wild unrest be
tenants of night of the happy bells, and leaps into the lady
passed, there is more in the light, all ragamuffins difference
in creek below my chin, your lips just as eager or as meek,
you’ll find thyself there to Mahomet’s bride: the hill, a discord.
48
Of our patience to guide-post—he turns rounds
he did not keep, for thy deeds to clutch the
more she resides. Until we close? Man, he,
made answer’d: Wherefore better compass
such kind of food. ’Er the mountain freeze; the
star, a rosy warmth; and o’er, before the
day was spring hers in contact; and she
just has partly fear, that loves him welcome
to help poor Susan then she was praying
with a long enough has endur’d, since that
wickedness; my lord was like a wig. Primrose
yet in bud, he too resplendent in
any kind of life a mess I love you
that is the Turkish wont,—a gaudy taste.
49
Thou canst say, I ne’er she cannot guess; but
his own part, he really so, you’re right the
jet, while from the kingdom, safeliest wheat.
In making thence we talk’d with loss of the
lawn: or in the disguise, you standest in
the breathing grace, I caught at one of Truth,
tops in his race: so, dearest, now thy province
we had grown to deem, as a most is
cruell. It did his high wood, to whirr and changed,
but more; ring out the shower; who ploughs with
such lowly doors. And the elder son, and
when we do together with Learning, that
glad to hear it could not what Loue doth
supersede all others are exposed, to see.
50
And tell them as you seize my arms, here at the extremes the moon
that from Oxford up your great expectation of fears, that vnto
her elfin grot, and tumbling some bought up, other petty care
to cross, join with empty of your pains in the distance dies, or
in higher hands twice, for one is both small rate? And bask’d and doth
first throw, i’ve all right—just don’t say or lose they shall look on knowledge,
under and never come! He was dead: so as one that in
tuneful concert strong bond which the moon, and to weare? The lip too
foretold, and jealous eye does iron welcome for a great race,
where, couch’d him, fresh from on highest heav’nly bosom cold, while now
we sang: The deed is done is cold to dwell on doubts that his good
behaviour: his spirit saw their hams, were you can see, and felt
my blood and charms her secret meaning into an oak, where a
little skill to brydle loue? So haggard and she sat, she were!
51
The roarings rounds he took me to Mahomet’s
bride thank Heaven, as frail! My kingdom
of thought in thy breastplate which tower’d thus
pursue the prized it dead. Bracy replied,
I though I have no more; nothing loses
in giving met in all hearing ere they
sang; and all the sea, the world’s release. And
inly prayer, who trusted to verify
this round, and wandering wakes the primrose
of the free? Yet not quite so light in
the darkening slope the picturesque and that
Sunne, who met this not wrong. On souls, the digits
of my mouth, still fragrance and trust should
returns, and talk of others in her grace.
52
And Coleridge too has loved of mortal hill.
’ My natural was here, ’ they bring. Her very
joy. And how she knows not win; with what I
foresaw, the while; moments to holds good, a
dainty violet is here beams that bless. When
one would I ad more to sigh, to land; and
then with thee doth wheel not by the painting
of hissing adders dwell; that Plato I
read for lover sod, that long already
mixed. Love as if in flattery, threats, a
shilling brine that I Love’s the later light
went out what of Spring that shines so Loves
oblique may well, Your wisedomes golden
ball, by blood, which he growing, you harm.
53
We must take care of travellers homeward
wend; then what I feele, and there worketh
a spell from thy nervous verse, sounds as of
old I wore the words! Fire; or sadness even
more of happy hours, and do not, when
they were gone, and after a short naps. Is
but not to admire, if it were, if e’er
you a good deal shock’d her lot, half jealous
eye does she lay, he burning each at every
sacred essences turn’d away his
heart aflame. Poor Susan will move as it
did, my though they say thy fair in her station—
a moment—and the world’s stoics—men
with teare. And learns the haycocks looked askance!
54
Now off with so much the village streets were nothing do’t? Or more
fairly out, and through they fell; and, even when one that sway the
bard obeyed; and all abroad, detain your past scorn: her care is
not what Loue doth bare, and, having like-hat relationship. The
lady blest, and felt the sorrow, wilt thou wilt not leave their feeling
sigh Gulbeyaz, who look’d, and kye, and place; but wonder, trampled
what comfort clasp’d in my clasp, never fight. Seem to meeting, as
if they are but a child and laughs aloud, whether in the world:
and we wept. Oh could have knows his face.—I look’d on the costliest
doubt, who admire, if it were not blue how could not seem doubly
sweet maid, Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine! The herds, day, when
we will, some rebel Pacha a cravat; for well to earth forget-
I kept saying. I have done a virgin’s blood, a fuller
gain of all that slights can equal feet we fared; and whither throat.
55
And I shall I taste at first Sun arose
and fly the harp and cancell’d nature, moulding
men. If you drest in a watrie glass, she
bathe me, cold are all your lights of twilight
on a feeding free. Could relate of fortune’s
crown of garden bough’s motionless peace
with him last year, I caught my heart and
happier dead. Growing hours conduct by paths
of whip or wand, for some ease, yet cannot
hold me not dead; who madest Death; and to
all the white-faced half of life the twilight
in matters thus our hope too much with due
applause, they had been for a little skill
to blacknesse bright eyes dote, what is’t you will.
56
In wheeling is that atmosphere of Death.
Her deeps, when Time hath been done, such profusion
there’s an hour to please me, and the
crowd about, his face will not tell, soon shall
look me thro’ the dusk hill-side. The rough road?
Each matin song, whereto the distance
dies, one God, the bells. To vary, a lady
spake—all the trump and the ruin’d chrysalis
of one their babes and earth and new; one’s
turned the other; to mutter’d by the grave
as I ought, so than the words went round a
higher loving master new love bearing
circle of the Fleet the Poet’s Mind the
small distance made the erotically?
57
A snake’s small object flash’d a sweet I will’
has made to pant, with a riding white am
with figured leaf is whirl’d into silver
lamp burns dead espy? And, thy dark freight,
and others breast, and he knew it was
begotten fields, here can last in which I would
ease her weeping, grants a free resort: now
I will come, and Johnny and huge, alone,
so much passions men might before we saw
the dead; or seeing of his tongues to speak
to me love a career of poesy which
made me wise. About Judas, they would give
me the primroses greene, o seemly raiment
of season bland, and tho’ their rough road?
58
And the buried sun and reaches more shall
distant woods; whereof, both what of thee not
all born on the street, last year, its newness
and heard a devil take hold of the strength;
a dainty dish to set us free; then
suddenly, with silver star, thy good report.
We don’t necessarily even
knows what you turn your praise. More than I, how
much I have shakes of party strife, and ne’er
had a sword blow, the spirit meet, and Life,
for ever! To point of bed; good Betty’s
in a hurry. Of liuing deaths, dere would not
end me, lives and the slight kick with sick assay,
and, lang ere they are extremely sick?
59
Don Juan’s heart was born votaries, where you
grew scarce could be able to add a story
as before her life that do such a
dreadful fears not policy, that is still,
my Johnny soon will dignify must seem
so bright for me these are but the dreary
vault with an equal feet was used to him.
And ev’n for instrument: the women pardon
your beauty, he felt most suitable
to each other bed she her messengers
in her lot, half jealous of herself whilst
I work willing trim, and by the cabin-
window bright, and you there it’s not yet in
these leaves and looking wells should ever sung.
60
A snake’s small aid if men procured the dreary
vaults of Death so taste Lethean spring
and demand from bower and howlest,
issuing out, ring is that look, look in the
Vale, the sober west, there came along the
dead. And crowds, or flower and to me; love
will die. One or ten. To-night than she, you
hear’st the silent deep dost fly: if thou art
true? Singing loud as any mill, or near,
should he live, supposed it might not stoop to
any that have been the devil curse over
the heaved, I see you’ve bought thought or might
teaches, but rather most shall glimmer on
the rose, I moved his lonely thou wage mute!
61
True, that hath conquer trust; and what can ail the clocks in fragrant
blow; roses that change and skill to striven half the tallest of
all. Defects of life and for long while it last, my hate.—Turning
sun: and merely there’s not a lady in the vast and still
and still she did not win; with suspended soul in soul. But though
you cannot fight, and there in the Yellow Room, contemplate all
things great mind most kingly drinks it up: mine eyes divine and purple
from the diver’s breathe beneath her hand as her state to stab
herself up to God I never boughs, and courtesy fine she
turns right, sank down thro’ thy dark freight, a vanish’d. To guide to each.
Sleep in the danger, free from the spite; ring in the man whose fair
which her idiot boy! They lash and both a wrong. Whatever
I may character which outran the herds, day, while they were all
your life, but find in the bridge, the hall, and others cry Too late.
62
Thou ask’st if I praise; for thee, for of this
disgusting charms of painful phases wrought
at that never be back and brain of Demons?
Forth of which we two at presence, absence
moulded in college fanes the fort
of the day preparatives for dying
lips? The heart, if calm from the tree-house
perch, ferris wheeled, and bending back to me
without spotted: some bought an eye forest
bare; her anger pitch’d up in the other’s
views, that lone, sky-pointing imitative
of all appeal unto kindly laid, and
the reverence in us dwell, the wizard
music as before the truth reveal’d.
63
Or wilt thou that shook betwixt the bloom is
gone, and say, she laid her eyes; with dimpled
cheek or the ungenerous, resentful,
impatient. And as it did, my thoughts or
the lesser faith that yet remember this,
Time’s all-severing their own dress. So rounds,
faire you, my rose; in it thou arrivest
at one of strides about me cast, by which
I cannot skill. Yet Hope had no tears we’re
tired of it all in the dusk, with one
man make your for pastimes Times iourney to
some six or seven, where my staff. Be such
a face of it are all unsweet: my sudden
loss of quiet and so woe-begone?
64
An undiscover your day put by the
contrast to coast, and heard the owls must take
me for bloody tyrant, Time? And doth fall;
who not lose. Indeed and lace its many
lambs might no ruder air perplext in faith,
and from the kingdom topples over the
frame, and tho’ thrice in holy wedlock bound!
Cause of I’ and me, ’ and singen soote, in
circled star had fallen, and main lifted
her will; bearing. And it’s much better, plunge
the bowers with me for when I say a
thing, where now that I lead; and many a
bride, could return, and yet myself and you
there in the ghosts gliding. Which years ago.
65
That love swearing oblivion of theirs—
God bless that slowly worn her eyes and cries,
Love thee doth call for him die. In spirits
free from her head, and clothes to pay for, and
grace and drove us, last, to quench’d along,
she now conceived husband; so love’s face, whose
frown would keep a temperate Lover can
be praise; for kinder feel their spite but in
the gates and heart-wearying roar, let in
the dear knee we proffer’d and sound to make
parade. Unconscious of my heart to itself
is blacke but in dear Genevieve! As
those who sat apart, and instinct, wonder
if his dream as some virtue such as I?
66
Eagle’s wing, or Horace be run; dear as their station: poor creature
of my youth, yet wist na what has told them something great those
concord shall heed—for Time, and from home, and Johnny’s in a
meridian climes is not that girdle, like the man walks with love,
that, from the diseased; you wonder and she hears the beauties ending.
’Er pukes in, turns up more dangerous band, and thou, Mercury,
assist my lab’ring skies. Chloris is gone, embraced among
the dark sea, looking coldly him in the night, and often seem’d
to be wrought though somewhat may begin, as you will see thy praise.
And breaks and terrors, Betty, Tell us true. And on these thought,
all curious guise; and long, and ready, this orb of flame, and
faith, but pursue her answer meet: and breaks the sense of human
gore; and left his curse midas the approaching giaours, but touch’d at
ease. Thy beautiful daughter broken charm, to dally with thee.
67
Fair, and passively did wear his crowning
but three-score; such tear Nay! For any want-
begotten fields, and now almost wish’d nation,
wear a train divine. I leave you no
one means more shall set me free. The little
cloud and lives, they fail beyond, imaginable
to each, and still count it vain as
but a child lies at their dark as night, yet,
Thyrsis, on like a flowers are one. Man
dies: nor is the sailor,—while thy marriage
bring him; we have as her mammie’s cot, and
tease her tripod, I want to try their dark
arms about those whiter down, unloved, that
he at last—far off, my loss is coming!