Thompson King Miners

Famous quotes containing the words thompson, king and/or miners:

    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
    And all alone comes riding there
    The King that could make his people stare,
    Because he had feathers instead of hair.
    A slow low note and an iron bell.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.”
    —Mother Jones (1830–1930)