Famous quotes containing the words left, breast and/or suspended:
“Only Herrick’s left alone,
For to number sorrow by
Their departures hence and die.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“If we could know
Which of us, darling, would be the first to go,
Who would be first to breast the swelling tide
And step alone upon the other side—
If we could know!”
—Julia Harris May (1833–1912)
“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)