Bald Head Island

Famous quotes containing the words bald head, bald, head and/or island:

    “It was a transmogrifying bee
    Came droning down on Chucky’s old bald head
    And sat and put the poison. It scarcely bled,”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “The noise of life begins again,
    And ghastly through the drizzling rain
    On the bald street breaks the blank day.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace,
    She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red hair
    Propped upon pillows, rouge on the pallor of her face.
    She would not have us sad because she is lying there,
    And when she meets our gaze her eyes are laughter-lit,
    Her speech a wicked tale that we may vie with her....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    ““Our island home
    Is far beyond the wave;we will no longer roam.””
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)