Nevertheless, however much the England camp may deny it, laurels look to have not just been rested on but slept upon and squashed beyond obvious recognition.
The other morning, I woke up with this line, from "Have Gun, Will Shakespeare," chasing through my head: "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bang!" Thataway, stranger, lies madness, so let us iris out on a quieter and safer area.
He even slept upon Rochester's bed whereupon he proclaimed: With no poetic ardour fir'd I press the bed where Wilmot lay: That here he lov'd, or here expir'd, Begets no numbers grave or gay.
As punishment for her disobedience, she will lose her place among the gods and become a mortal woman, and she will be left to sleep upon a rock until a mortal man has claimed her.
(I was especially touched by the bookshop owner in Maine who offered to replace some of the books I had lost and another reader who tried to locate a place for us to stay when Marsha and I were taking cold showers in the daycare center where we first slept upon returning to New Orleans).
Nest-building includes bending and breaking large amounts of foliage to shape a sizeable and comfortable platform that bends into a concave shape when slept upon.
Tom Longstaff, a Scottish doctor and Himalayan pioneer, has written: "To know a mountain, you must sleep upon it".
The little rocks are stripped of description, just like my grandfather and the thousands who slept upon straw mats atop those stones not so long ago.
Tonight we will sleep upon this mountain and dream about the route ahead, as well as the desires and fears that brought us here.
Some of his poems are about the "Forbidden City" in Peking, a startling series of observations on emperors, dust, what eons do to even the most imperial of dreams, the hard beds that the exalted slept upon without pillows, ruling class hubris and arrogance, the sins of aggrandizement built upon the exploitation of the poor, and the essential fraud Nicosia believes Chairman Mao was in the end.
Also for hotels, bring a blanket from home to sleep upon to limit exposure to hotel sheets.
