Small Black Powder

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

    “‘Or like small gnats and flies, as thick as mist
    On evening marches, thronged about the brow
    Of lawyers, statesmen, priest and theorist;—”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saints
    balanced upon the switchblades of that air
    and sang.”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    “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)