miles quotes

But two miles more and then we rest! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the west Sit then, awhile, here in this wood So total is the solitude, We safely may delay.

- Charlotte Bronte« 
  'Regret', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and  Acton Bell.

Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles.

- Robert Browning
  Men and Women,'Love among the Ruins'.

It was amazing to think that in those miles of human habitations there was not probably half a dozen pounds of nails.

-Constantinus
  Of Bangkok. The Shadow-Line.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Lee Frost
  'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.

   He had gone miles away For he drank like a fish Nightly, naturally Swimming towards the lure Of warm lit-up places.

- SeamusJustin Heaney
  Field Work,'Casualty'.

Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

- Randall Jarrell
  'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner'.

Holla, ye pampered Jades of Asia; What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?

- Christopher Marlowe
  Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.2, l.3980^1.

   In a march of onlya few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.It was hard to realise that on the first miles of the brief march we had been travelling due north, while on the last few miles of the same march we had been travelling due south, although we had all the time been travelling precisely in the same direction.

- Robert Edwin Peary
  Description of crossing and then passing the Pole. The North Pole (published1910).

Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.

- Mordecai Richler
Of Canada. St Urbain's Horseman, ch.1.

Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, emptyas paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. 722

- F(rancis) R(eginald) Scott
  Of Canada.'Laurentian Shield'.

I cannot remember things I once read A few friends, but theyare in cities. Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup Looking down for miles Through high still air.

- Gary Sherman Snyder
  Riprap,'Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout'.