Tenth Day

Famous quotes containing the words tenth day, tenth and/or day:

    “The tenth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Ten pipers piping,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 64–66)

    “In his tenth July some instinct
    taught him to arm the waiting wave,
    a giant where its mouth hung open.
    He rode on the lip that buoyed him there
    and buckled him under.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “O mud
    For watermelons gutted to the crust,
    Mud for the mole-tide harbor, mud for mouse,
    Mud for the armored Diesel fishing tubs that thud
    A year and a day to wind and tide; the dust
    Is on this skipping heart that shakes my house,”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)