The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.


The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (ed. 1876)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.