Slender

Famous quotes containing the word slender:

“A note as from a single place,
A slender tinkling fall that made
Now drops that floated on the pool
Like pearls, and now a silver blade.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“You are maiden,
no woman,
you are slender and faultless and rare,
you are child of my father,
how could I leave you.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r,
Thou’s met me in an evil hour;
For I maun crush amang the stoure
Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my pow’r,
Thou bonnie gem.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)