Southey

Famous quotes containing the word southey:

“And everybody praised the Duke
Who such a fight did win.—
But what good came of it at last?
Quoth little Peterkin.—
Why that I cannot tell, said he,
But ‘twas a famous victory.”
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)

“No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The ship was still as she could be;”
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)

“They have whetted their teeth against the stones,
And now they pick the Bishop’s bones;
They gnawed the flesh from every limb,
For they were sent to do judgement on him!”
—Robert Southey (1774–1843)