Billy Black

Famous quotes containing the words billy and/or black:

    “How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    How old is she, charming Billy?”
    Past six, past seven,
    Past twenty and eleven,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.”
    —Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 21–25)

    A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
    my thoughts are spent
    as the black seeds.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)