"Uncurl" Quotes from Famous Books
... hedges give the prophecy of birds, And sunbeams play on the expectant boughs, The leaves uncurl and fill their veins with life, And I forget, forget the drift ... — Poems • Elizabeth Stoddard
... tortured ghosts! But, hark! he strikes the golden lyre; And see! the tortured ghosts respire, See, shady forms{9} advance! Thy stone, O Sisyphus, stands still,{10} Ixion rests upon his wheel, And the pale spectres dance; The Furies sink upon their iron beds, And snakes uncurl'd hang ... — Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin |