Thompson Russell Smith

Famous quotes containing the words thompson, russell and/or smith:

    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “The snow had begun in the gloaming,
    And busily all the night
    Had been heaping field and highway
    With a silence deep and white.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,
    And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)