Thompson Russell Smith

Famous quotes containing the words thompson, russell and/or smith:

    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her;
    And she, kissing back, could not know
    That my kiss was given to her sister,
    Folded close under deepening snow.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “This Englishwoman is so refined
    She has no bosom and no behind.”
    —Stevie Smith (1902–1971)