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)

    “one pale woman all alone,
    The daylight kissing her wan hair,
    Loitered beneath the gas lamps’ flare,
    With lips of flame and heart of stone.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Wee image of my bonnie Betty,
    I fatherly will kiss and daut thee,
    As dear an’ near my heart I set thee
    Wi’ as guid will,
    As a’ the priests had seen me get thee
    That’s out o’ hell.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)