Short Pitched

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or pitched:

    O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
    The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
    And all the good embrace, who know the grave
    A short dark passage to eternal light.
    Sir William Davenant (1606–1668)

    Love, why have you sought the horde
    of spearsmen, why the tent
    Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)