Famous quotes containing the words left, breast and/or suspended:
“No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name—
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
“his head
May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)