Ransom

Famous quotes containing the word ransom:

“Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime
Put on his pistols and went riding out
But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time
Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“But this was the old tree’s late branch wrenched away,
Grieving the sapless limbs, the shorn and shaken.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“A boy not beautiful, nor good, nor clever,
A black cloud full of storms too hot for keeping,
A sword beneath his mother’s heart— yet never
Woman bewept her babe as this is weeping.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)