Jonson's concluding lines reject physical excess, including, perhaps, the drunken insult regretted the morning after.
The concluding lines have a sense of dramatic fatality that is hard to resist.
And it confirms the view that Mr. Demetz expresses in the concluding lines of his crystalline little book, that Brescia represented a sort of final moment of innocence.
He draped the tree in metaphor and imbued it with immortality by writing about it in the concluding lines of his 1949 book "Here Is New York".
Lachman wrote the concluding lines of Hope's delicately negotiated 1958 special from Moscow: "I found out that the little kids with the fur hats and the sticky faces have no politics, and that their party line is confined to 'please pass the ice cream.' . . .
In his preface, MacDonald states the book's aim "to replace gushing hero-worship with a detached, posterity-anticipating tally of what the Beatles did", a stance exemplified by his concluding lines on the Lennon ballad Because: "Many have admired the song's mood of visionary detachment without taking account of the heroin then flowing coldly around its composer's body".
It was as if he knew he was saying goodbye to his readers in that novel's Gatsby-like concluding lines: "For we are all swimmers ephemerally buoyed by what will engulf us at the last; still dreaming of islands though the mainland has been lost; swept remorselessly out to sea while we spread our arms to the beautiful shore".
As it happens, Thatcher is – literally – the last thing you'll find in these atmospheric tales: she appears in the concluding lines of the final, titular story (the only new, unpublished tale here), glimpsed by a narrator who has been taken hostage by an IRA gunman in a Windsor flat.
Walt Whitman answers the question posed by the title of Galway Kinnell's latest book of poems (his first collection of new work in more than a decade) in an 1871 poem called "The Last Invocation," the concluding lines of which say, "Strong is your hold O mortal flesh" and "Strong is your hold O love".
It's the grey Soul who speaks the concluding lines, revealing the internalised agony of one "whose heart's old fire in shadow of shame is furl'd …" This shadowed figure, hard to separate from the figure of the poet, internalises the strange, haunting and original image of the abashed sun.
