Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“O, there’s a wind a-blowing, a-blowing from the west,
And that of all the winds is the one I like the best,
For it blows at our backs, and it shakes our pennon free,
And it soon will blow us home to the old countrie.”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
“Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness—presently
Every bed is narrow.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“... though it is by no means requisite that the American women should emulate the men in the pursuit of the whale, the felling of the forest, or the shooting of wild turkeys, they might, with advantage, be taught in early youth to excel in the race, to hit a mark, to swim, and in short to use every exercise which could impart vigor to their frames and independence to their minds.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon doth rise?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)