Famous quotes containing the words maine and/or struck:
“It was a Maine lobster town
each morning boatloads of hands
pushed off for granite
quarries on the islands.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“Our frigate takes fire,
The other asks if we demand quarter?
If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
Now I laugh content for I hear the voice of my little captain,
We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)