Gently

Famous quotes containing the word gently:

“I asked, “What happens, father, when you die?”

He told where all the running water goes,
And dressed me gently in my little clothes.”
—Robert Pack (b. 1929)

“And but for fancies, which aver
That all thy motions gently pass
Athwart a plane of molten glass,
I scarce could brook the strain and stir”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)