Clawed Worm

Famous quotes containing the words clawed and/or worm:

    For age with stealing steps
    Hath clawed me with his crutch,
    Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    Speak, then, my Beauty, to this dire putrescence,
    To the worm that shall kiss your proud estate,
    That I have kept the divine form and the essence
    Of my festered loves inviolate!
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)