Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
Henry Kirke WhiteSo, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.
Henry Kirke WhiteI do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.
Henry Kirke White