Eyelids

Famous quotes containing the word eyelids:

“Oh, lift me from the grass!
I die! I faint! I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“he lay down with those strange women, his face in the alley,
One shoe off, cinders in his mouth, his eyelids heavy.
When they shouted questions at him, he talked back to nobody.”
—David Wagoner (b. 1926)

“I only know that a rook
Ordering its black feathers can so shine
As to seize me senses, haul
My eyelids up, and grant

A brief respite from fear
Of total neutrality.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)