Edgar Whitcomb/early Life

Famous quotes containing the words whitcomb, early and/or life:

    a feller is a-feelin’ at his best,
    With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
    As he leaves the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feed the stock,
    When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock.
    —James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

    But she is early up and out,
    To trim the year or strip its bones;
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    Poor vaunt of life indeed,
    Were man but formed to feed
    On joy, to solely seek and find and feast:
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)