Light Verse

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or verse:

    “When the light was extinguished,
    She covered me warm,
    And she prayed to the angels
    To keep me from harm—”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “Verse calls them forth; ‘tis verse that gives
    Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)