Small Black Powder

Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:

    “Little Jesus, wast Thou shy
    Once, and just so small as I?
    And what did it feel like to be
    Out of Heaven, and just like me?”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
    my thoughts are spent
    as the black seeds.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)