Death Scythe

Famous quotes containing the words death and/or scythe:

    “O mortal folk, you may behold and see
    How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight;
    The end of joy and all prosperity
    Is death at last, thorough his course and might;”
    —Stephen Hawes (1474–1528)

    “Old Day the gardener seemed
    Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand
    by the sundial and freshly-dug
    grave in my book of parables.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)