Famous quotes containing the word lay:
“I lay upon my baby;
Ye little childer dear,
I looked on my cold baby
When the morn grew frosty and clear.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer ventured near my house for a week or fortnight at a time, but there I lived as snug as a meadow mouse.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)