Lightly

Famous quotes containing the word lightly:

“Give her strewings, but not stir
The earth that lightly covers her.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“What’s lightly hid is deepest understood,”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)