Dual Sword Arms

Famous quotes containing the words dual, sword and/or arms:

    “Thee for my recitative,
    Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
    declining,
    Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
    convulsive,
    Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “For the sword outwears its sheath,
    And the soul wears out the breast.
    And the heart must pause to breathe,
    And love itself have rest.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round,
    Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound,
    Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam,
    Our arms are waving, our lips are apart....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)