Taylor Won

Famous quotes containing the words taylor and/or won:

    “One sorry fret,
    An anvill Sparke, rose higher,
    And in thy Temple falling, almost set
    The house on fire.
    Such fireballs dropping in the Temple Flame
    Burns up the building: Lord, forbid the same.”
    —Edward Taylor (1645–1729)

    “Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?
    Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
    List to the yarn, as my grandmother’s father the sailor told it to
    me.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)