Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?


Hamlet: Words, words, words.


Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2



Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Lassitude

lassitude: [las-i-tood] noun weariness of body and mind; a condition of indolent indifference.


The weary butterflies that droop their wings,
The dreamy nightingale that hardly sings,
And all the lassitude of happy things...

-----Sir Edmund William Gosse
Lying In The Grass

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