Mercury Delay Lines

Famous quotes containing the words mercury, delay and/or lines:

    “The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
    What instruments we have agree
    The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “Once we began to see our images
    Reflected in the mud and even dust,
    ‘Twas disillusion upon disillusion.
    We were lost piecemeal to the animals,
    Like people thrown out to delay the wolves.
    Nothing but fallibility was left us....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “When the rose reigns, and locks with ointments shine,
    Let rigid Cato read these lines of mine.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)