Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan

Famous quotes containing the words unknown, bonny and/or allan:

    Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    He kicked the ball with his right foot,
    And catched it with his knee,
    And through and through the Jew’s window
    He gared the bonny ball flee.
    Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 5–8)

    The mimes become its food,
    And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
    In human gore imbued.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)