Sweep

Famous quotes containing the word sweep:

    And my spirit is grown to a lordly great compass within,
    That the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of
    Glynn
    Will work me no fear like the fear they have wrought me of yore
    When length was failure, and when breadth was but bitterness sore,
    And when terror and shrinking and dreary unnamable pain
    Drew over me out of the merciless miles of the plain,—
    Oh, now, unafraid, I am fain to face
    The vast sweet visage of space.
    Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)

    Haste me to know it, that I with wings as swift
    As meditation, or the thoughts of love,
    May sweep to my revenge.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I who take here
    my bread and life
    and sweep the temple,
    still I swear
    that I would save you,
    birds or spirits.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)