An Old-Fashioned Garden

Strange, is it not? She was making her garden,
Planting the old-fashioned flowers that day—
Bleeding-hearts tender and bachelors-buttons—
Spreading the seeds in the old-fashioned way.

Just in the old fashioned way, too, our quarrel
Grew until, angrily, she set me free—
Planting, indeed, bleeding hearts for the two of us,—
Ordaining bachelor’s buttons for me.

Envoi

Strange, was it not? But seeds planted in anger
Sour in the earth and, ere long, a decay
Withered the bleeding hearts, blighted the buttons,
And—we were wed—in the old-fashioned way.

poem by Ellis Parker Butler
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Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

quote by Donatella Versace
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

quote by Yves Saint Laurent
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The Ol' Tunes

YOU kin talk about yer anthems
An' yer arias an' sich,
An' yer modern choir-singin'
That you think so awful rich;
But you orter heerd us youngsters
In the times now far away,
A-singin' o' the ol' tunes
In the ol'-fashioned way.
There was some of us sung treble
An' a few of us growled bass,
An' the tide o' song flowed smoothly
With its 'comp'niment o' grace;
There was spirit in that music,
An' a kind o' solemn sway,
A-singin' o' the ol' tunes
In the ol'-fashioned way.
I remember oft o' standin'
In my homespun pantaloons—
On my face the bronze an' freckles
O' the suns o' youthful Junes—

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poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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a peaceful sundown:
through the latticed window
of the old-fashioned prison,
I watch out the corner of my eye
as cranes fly overhead

tanka by Vasile Moldovan (2008), translated by Dan Costinaş
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

quote by Saint Aurelius Augustine
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I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

quote by George Mason
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I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.

quote by Annni-Frid Lyngstad
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You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

quote by Tommy Hilfiger
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I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

classic quote by Marlene Dietrich
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Lets Take An Old Fashioned Walk

Lets take an old fashioned walk, Im just bursting with talk.
What a tale could be told if we went for an old fashioned walk.
Lets take a stroll through the park, down a lane where its dark
And a heart thats controlled, may relax on an old fashioned walk.
I know for a couple who seem to be miles apart,
Theres nothing like walking and having a heart to heart.
I know a girl who declined, couldnt make up her mind.
She was wrapped up and sold, coming home from an old fashioned walk.

song performed by Irving Berlin
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Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae

Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat,
Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay;
Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
When I awoke and found the dawn was gray:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.

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poem by Ernest Dowson
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The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

quote by Dylan Moran
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I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

classic quote by Freddie Mercury
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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

quote by Vivienne Westwood
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I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

quote by Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
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The Art of Passion | Art in a Poem / Lyrics

Passion is no fashion it’s an art
You and I got to have a heart to heart
A secret from me through the whispers
All you got to do is observe

Put feet to your dreams and send them walking
Stuff worries in a sack and send them packing
Turn your mind on and get to thinking
What are you doing with the word living

Put stubborn on your side and win him over
Make him invisible put him on your shoulder
Paint a picture in your mind don’t leave any colors behind
It’s the road you got to take, make no mistake

You’ll be unstoppable, untouchable,
Something that’s unbreakable
Fashionable, beautiful
Something that’s inflammable

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poem by Life in a Poem
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The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man.

quote by Bob Goddard
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We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.

quote by Wolf Blitzer
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

quote by Ayn Rand
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