Stood

Famous quotes containing the word stood:

“I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,
I stood upon the hatches in the storm.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)