Final Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words final and/or syllables:

    “The train rounds, bending to a scream,
    Taking the final level for the dive
    Under the river—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “This is the poem of the air,
    Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
    This is the secret of despair,
    Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
    Now whispered and revealed
    To wood and field.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)