Phantom Fright Nights

Famous quotes containing the words phantom, fright and/or nights:

    “Semi-Saracenic architecture, sustaining itself as if by miracle in mid air; glittering in the red sunlight with a hundred oriels, minarets, and pinnacles; and seeming the phantom handiwork, conjointly, of the Sylphs,... the Fairies,... the Genii, and ... the Gnomes.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “I wage not any feud with Death
    For changes wrought on form and face;
    No lower life that earth’s embrace
    May breed with him can fright my faith.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “That woman’s days were spent
    In ignorant good-will,
    Her nights in argument
    Until her voice grew shrill.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)