Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

Famous quotes containing the words baron, port and/or ellen:

    “I loathe that I did love,
    In youth that I thought sweet;”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “Through the port comes the moon-shine astray!
    It tips the guard’s cutlass and silvers this nook;
    But ‘twill die in the dawning of Billy’s last day.
    A jewel-block they’ll make of me to-morrow,
    Pendant pearl from the yard-arm-end
    Like the ear-drop I gave to Bristol Molly—
    O, ‘tis me, not the sentence they’ll suspend.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.”
    —J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)