James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
The First Snowfall http://www.bartleby.com/248/351.html, st. 1 (1849)
First lines (as translated by Edward Seidensticker).
Snow Country (1948)
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
The First Snowfall http://www.bartleby.com/248/351.html, st. 1 (1849)
“There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Variant: He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Epes Sargent (1813–1880) American editor, poet and playwright
The Heart's Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Roy Campbell (poet) (1901–1957) South African poet
"Horses on the Camargue," lines 41-48
Adamastor (1930)