Tenth Day

Famous quotes containing the words tenth day, tenth and/or day:

    “The tenth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Ten pipers piping,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 64–66)

    “Of Ickworth’s boys, their father’s joys,
    There is but one a bad one;
    The tenth is he, the parson’s fee,
    And indeed he is a sad one.
    No love of fame, no sense of shame,
    And a bad heart, let me tell ye:
    Without, all brass; within, all ass,
    And the puppy’s name is Felly.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “As a fond mother, when the day is o’er,
    Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
    Half willing, half reluctant to be led,”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)