Famous quotes containing the words long and/or skirts:
“But now he snapped his eyes three times;
Then shook his lantern, saying, Hes
Bout out! and took the long way home
By road, a matter of several miles.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)