In to thir dirk and drublie dayis, Quhone sabill all the hevin arrayis With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis, Nature all curage me denyis Off sangis, ballattis, and of playis.

-Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re
'Meditatioun in Wyntir', stanza1.

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Prufrock and Other Observations,'Preludes', pt.1.

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

-Flecker,James Elroy
  'Brumana'.

These somewhat troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.

-Foster, Sir George
  Speech in the House of Commons,16  Jan. The Times reported the speech under the heading of 'Splendid Isolation', 22  Jan.

Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sanspareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devisedof mind and body† For meit remainstheProust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past- and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a whole, or in one tiny phrase, a blinding split second.

-Fowles,John Robert
Quick Singles,'Vain Memories'. Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Lord Mountarat's song, Iolanthe, act 2.

Is it one of my well-looking days, child? Am I in face to- day?

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  She Stoops to Conquer, act1, sc.1.

Shenever wantedtobe sexy, but inthose daysambitions were different, and she was the most ambitious of them all.

-Lagerfeld, Karl
  Of  Wallis Simpson, Duchess of  Windsor. In the NewYork Times,19 Sep.

We declare: the genius of our days to be: trousers, jackets, shoes, tramways, buses, aeroplanes, railways, magnificent shipsöwhat an enchantmentöwhat a great epoch unrivalled in world history. 490

-Larionov, Mikhail
  'Rayonnist Manifesto', quoted in C Gray  The Russian Experiment in  Art (revised edn1986).

What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'Days'.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poisonö Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'Toads'.

In bygone days, Morag had once believed that nothing could be worsethankilling a person.Nowsheperceived river-slaying as something worse.

-Laurence, Margaret
  The Diviners, ch.1.

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  'Piano'.

As in earlier days were our mechanics, such todayare our engineers, who may be required not only to tear down a fortress, and then to build it up again, but also to produce all sorts of engines based on mechanical principles, and with equal easeto defend or toannihilate a fortress.

-Leupold,Jakob
  Theatrum machinarum.

The flower-fed buffalos of the spring In the days of long ago, Ranged where the locomotives sing And the prairie flowers lie low.

-Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel
  Going to the Stars,'The Flower-Fed Buffaloes'.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever come perfect days.

-Lowell,James Russell
  'The Vision of Sir Launfal', prelude.

With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

-1st Baron
  Lays of  Ancient Rome,'Horatius', stanza 70.

Talk of our enlightened days and our emancipated countryöpure nonsense! We are firmly held with the self-fashioned chains of slavery.Yes, now I see that they are self-fashioned, and must be self-removed.

-Beauchamp
   Journal entry, May.

Bonosque Soles effugere atque abire sentit, Qui nobis pereunt et imputantur. Each of us feels the good days speed and depart, and they're lost to us and counted against us.

-Martial full name MarcusValerius Martialis
Epigrams, bk.5, no.20, l.11^13.

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'Cargoes'.