Tam Lee Lai

Famous quotes containing the words tam, lee and/or lai:

    “O I forbid you, maidens a’
    That wear gowd on your hair,
    To come, or gae by Carterhaugh,
    For young Tom-lin is there.”
    —Unknown. Tam Lin (l. 1–4)

    “by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell,
    And many a flower and medicinal weed—
    Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
    At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
    And passed to a sweet repose.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

    “The My Lai soldier lifts me up again and again
    and lowers me down with the other dead women and babies
    saying, It’s my job. It’s my job.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)