Mustard Gas Burns

Famous quotes containing the words mustard, gas and/or burns:

    “when wine redeems the sight,
    Narrowing the mustard scansions of the eyes,”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
    Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
    I heard a Negro play.

    Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
    By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    “O My Luve’s like a red, red rose,
    That’s newly sprung in June;
    O My Luve’s like the melodie
    That’s sweetly played in tune.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)