Miner Forty Niner

Famous quotes containing the words miner and/or forty:

    “Many a miner has gone
    into the deep pit
    to receive the dust of a kiss,
    an ore-cell.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “‘I’m sorry that I spelt the word:
    I hate to go above you,
    Because’Mthe brown eyes lower fell—
    ‘Because, you see, I love you!’

    Still memory to a grey-haired man
    That sweet child-face is showing.
    Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
    Have forty years been growing.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)