Wounded

Famous quotes containing the word wounded:

    “Nature herself her shape admires;
    The gods are wounded in her sight;
    And Love forsakes his heavenly fires
    And at her eyes his brand doth light:
    Heigh ho, would she were mine!”
    —Thomas Lodge (1558?–1625)

    “There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole
    There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sinsick soul.”
    —African-American hymn-writer. “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” l. 1-2.

    “A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
    That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)