Sunken

Famous quotes containing the word sunken:

    And ladies with their nails prepared for tea
    And sunken barques that coast the shores of hell
    And old men vacant of propriety
    Have faintly rung a next-door neighbor’s bell.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    If grief could burn out
    Like a sunken coal,
    The heart would rest quiet....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    The past absconds
    With our fortunes just as we were rounding a major
    Bend in the swollen river; not to see ahead
    Becomes the only predicament when what
    Might be sunken there is mentioned only
    In crabbed allusions but will be back tomorrow.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)