Lee

Famous quotes containing the word lee:

    The President’s proclamation took the breath out of me this morning. He is in the hands of the Phillistines [sic] ...
    —Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?)

    ...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own race—Contact with the African degenerates our white race—I find the association with them injurious to my child—keenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of them—Still the race is a degraded one ...
    —Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?)

    by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell,
    And many a flower and medicinal weed—
    Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
    At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
    And passed to a sweet repose.
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)