Drowned

Famous quotes containing the word drowned:

“Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
And me supposed to be ignorant,
Or find it funny, or not to care....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The sea called
you faced the estuary,
you were drowned as the tide passed.
I am glad of this
at least you have escaped.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)