Soft Imperative Form

Famous quotes containing the words soft, imperative and/or form:

    “Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,
    That she in peace may wake and pity me.”
    —Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

    “To me Americanism means ... an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.”
    —Meyer London (1871–1926)

    “and so this tree—
    Oh, that such our death may be!—
    Died in sleep, and felt no pain,
    To live in happier form again:
    From which, beneath Heaven’s fairest star,
    The artist wrought this loved guitar;”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)