Famous quotes containing the word held:
“Victory comes late
And is held low to freezing lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turnd over
upon me,
And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
And reachd till you felt my beard, and reachd till you held my
feet.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.”
—Thomas Campbell (17741844)
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