"Whisp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fingers, "Saying, 'Sleep, and dream of me, my children "'Dream of me, the mystic Indian Summer; "'I, who, slain by the cold Moon of Terror, "'Can return across the path of Spirits, "'Bearing still my heart of love and fire; "'Looking with my eyes of warmth and splendour; "'Whisp'ring lowly thro' your sleep of sunshine? "'I, the laughing Summer, am not turn'd "'Into dry dust, whirling on the prairies,— "'Into red clay, crush'd beneath the snowdrifts. "'I am still the mother of sweet flowers "'Growing but an arrow's flight ...
— Old Spookses' Pass • Isabella Valancy Crawford
... have I; some evil daemon, sure, Beguil'd me of all prudence, that I came Thus sparely clad; I shall, I must expire. So I; he, ready as he was in arms And counsel both, the remedy at once Devised, and thus, low-whisp'ring, answer'd me. 600 Hush! lest perchance some other hear—He said, And leaning on his elbow, spake aloud. My friends! all hear—a monitory dream Hath reach'd me, for we lie far from the ships. Haste, therefore, one of you, with my request To Agamemnon, ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer
... shepherd's song, And silence girt the woods: no warbling tongue Talk'd to the echo; satyrs broke their dance, And all the upper world lay in a trance. Only the curled streams soft chidings kept, And little gales that from the green leaf swept Dry summer's dust, in fearful whisp'rings stirr'd, As loath to ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 • Various
... is what you are to do.—Sergeant Pugovichyn—he is tall. So he is to stand on duty on the bridge for appearance' sake. Then the old fence near the bootmaker's must be pulled down at once and a post stuck up with a whisp of straw so as to look like grading. The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.—Good God, though, I forgot that about forty cart-loads of rubbish have been dumped against that ...
— The Inspector-General • Nicolay Gogol
... stare, I view'd the heavenly-seeming fair; A whisp'ring throb did witness bear Of kindred sweet, When with an elder sister's ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... that unlucky Sprite! Like Will-a-whisp, a wandring light, Through ditch, thro' bog, who lead astray Benighted swains, who lose their way; You pinch the slattern black and blue, You silver drop in huswife's shoe; For call you Robin and sweet Puck, You do their work, and ...
— A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) • William Shakespeare |
