Sleeping Infants

Famous quotes containing the words sleeping and/or infants:

    “Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
    The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the
    fighter?
    All, all, are sleeping on the hill.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

    “But O, young beauty of the woods,
    Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers,
    Gather the flowers, but spare the buds;
    Lest Flora, angry at thy crime
    To kill her infants in their prime,
    Do quickly make the example yours;
    And ere we see,
    Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)