2nd Baron Nelson of Stafford

Famous quotes containing the words baron, nelson and/or stafford:

    “Sleep, and forget all things but one,
    Heard in each wave of sea,—
    How lonely all the years will run
    Until I rest by thee.”
    —John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley (1835–1895)

    “The victors and the vanquished then the storm it tossed and tore,
    As hard they strove, those worn-out men, upon that surly shore;
    Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew, his foes from near and far,
    Were rolled together on the deep that night at Trafalgar!”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “a doe, a recent killing;
    she had stiffened already, almost cold.
    I dragged her off she was large in the belly.”
    —William Stafford (1914–1941)