Verge Watches

Famous quotes containing the words verge and/or watches:

“An exile, saddest of all prisoners,
Who has the whole world for a dungeon strong,
Seas, mountains, and the horizon’s verge for bars.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face—the face of one long dead—
Looks at me from the wall,”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)