Her other books are Nice Day for Murder: Poems for James Cagney (2001),
Alarum Within: theatre poems (2003), and fake Paul (2005).
In 1871, Whitman printed an altogether different four-line epigraph to the section of Leaves of Grass titled "Drum-Taps": "Aroused and angry, / I thought to beat the
alarum, and urge relentless war; / But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd, and I resign'd myself, / To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead" (LG 1871, 261).
After the offstage sound effect of '
Alarum' and the entrance of the bloody captain to give his report in Macbeth, we know we are some distance from the fighting.
(24) Nashe, 'To the Gentlemen Students', in Greenes Arcadia, or Menaphon: Camillaes
alarum to slumber, Euphues in his melancholy cell at Silexedra (London: Valentine Simmes for Nicholas Ling, 1599), fol.
And while down below everything disintegrated and changed into nothingness in that silent panic of quick dissolution, above there grew and endured the
alarum of sunset.
Vae terrae cymbalo
alarum, quae est trans flumina AEthiopiae, qui mittit in mare legatos, et in vasis papyri super aquas!
But other than in the snatches of verse, the rhythmic
alarum and tension so characteristic of Poe's writing is missing, both in dialogue and the written reports to Landor." ART WINSLOW
A simple, but in its own way beautiful antique
alarum lantern clock, it had been pooh-poohed by the huddle of dealers at our local Saturday village hall auction.
For those who prefer to exeunt without
alarum, Robins provides interesting commentary, concise directions and maps, handy places of refreshment, and gallery-quality photographs.
He shouted the unpleasant
alarum that the American right is at a moment of extreme and self-inflicted peril.
It is not entirely clear even now what motivated many of these voters beyond a generalized
alarum that our coarse popular culture is sanding down all moral sensibilities.
Even the somewhat mystically idealistic manifesto that launched the RAT movement, Ehn's "A Proposal and an
Alarum Towards Big Cheap Theater," published in Theater magazine in 1993, brims with concern about logistics.