Sunken Hearth

Famous quotes containing the words sunken and/or hearth:

    “Turn your eyes to the immoderate past,
    Turn to the inscrutable infantry rising
    Demons out of the earth—they will not last.
    Stonewall, Stonewall, and the sunken fields of hemp,
    Shiloh, Antietam, Malvern Hill, Bull Run.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease,
    Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please;
    Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share,
    Go, look within, and ask if peace be there:
    If peace be his—that drooping weary sire,
    Of theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire,
    Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand
    Turns on the wretched hearth th’ expiring brand.”
    —George Crabbe (1754–1832)