Author: Colin Cheong

Cites

• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: The Stolen Child (1989) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
    FROM: The Stolen Child, (1889), Poem, Ireland
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Stolen Child (1989) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king; She never had so sweet a changeling; And jealous Oberon would have the child Knight of his train, to trace the forest wild;
    FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: The Stolen Child (1989) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: And every time he shuts his eyes he sees himself a very fine fellow - so fine as he can never be ... In a dream ...
    FROM: Lord Jim, (1900), Novel, UK
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: The Stolen Child (1989) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: ... the youth shut up from The lustful joy shall forget to generate, and create an amorous image ... In the shadows of his curtains and in the folds of his silent pillow.
    FROM: Visions of the Daughters of Albion, (1793), Poem, UK