"Untracked" Quotes from Famous Books
... love enthralls me so, That, in sooth, I scarcely know. Show me, in a house all green, Save for long gold wedges' sheen, Where the flies, white sparks of fire, Dart and hover and aspire, And the leaves, air-stirred on high, Feel such joy they needs must sigh, And the untracked grass makes sweet All fair flowers to touch thy feet, And the bees about them hum. All the world ... — Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. • Jean Ingelow
... character and worth of his subordinates. He was responsible for the prolonged sojourn at Tahiti, and he should have remembered that time and distance are powerful solvents, and that between Portsmouth Hard and the untracked waters of the Pacific, "all Arcadia" had intervened. He was a man of imperfect sympathies, wanting in tact and fineness, but in the hour of need he behaved like a hero, and saved himself and others by submission to duty and strenuous self-control. Moreover, ... — The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron |