Drowned

Famous quotes containing the word drowned:

    “He bore her away in his arms,
    The handsomest young man there,
    And his neck and his breast and his arms
    Were drowned in her long dim hair.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The ancestral deed is thought and done,
    And in a million Edens fall
    A million Adams drowned in darkness,
    For small is great and great is small,
    And a blind seed all.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    “Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
    And me supposed to be ignorant,
    Or find it funny, or not to care....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)