Burnt

Famous quotes containing the word burnt:

    ‘O fy gar ride, and fy gar rin,
    And haste ye find these traitors again;
    For she’s be burnt and he’s be slain,
    The wearifu’ gaberlunzie man.’
    Unknown. The Gaberlunzie Man (l. 49–52)

    Time drops in decay,
    Like a candle burnt out,
    And the mountains and woods
    Have their day, have their day....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
    They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown’d.
    John Donne (1572–1631)