latch quotes

The haven from sophistications and contentions Leaks through its thatch; He offers succulent cooking; The door has a creaking latch.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.10.

Shut close the door; press down the latch; Sleep in thy intellectual crust; Nor lose ten tickings of thy watch Near this unprofitable dust.

-Wordsworth,William
  'A Poet's Epitaph', stanza 9 (published1800).

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