Famous quotes containing the words late, middle and/or english:
“Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
And now their hour is come.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
“Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)