Tender

Famous quotes containing the word tender:

“But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“She gave up beauty in her tender youth,
Gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways;
She covered up her eyes lest they should gaze
On vanity, and chose the bitter truth.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

“Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?””
—William Blake (1757–1827)