"Unfarrowed" Quotes from Famous Books
... of prospect had the mother sow, And but for daily loss of one she loved, As one by one we took them—but for this— As never sow was higher in this world— Might have been happy: but what lot is pure! We took them all, till she was left alone Upon her tower, the Niobe of swine, And so return'd unfarrowed ... — The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson |