Author: Katy Simpson Smith

Cites

• Isaac Watts (1)
  • IN: The Story of Land and Sea (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers; Death like a narrow sea divides This heavenly land from ours... Bu timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away... Could we but climb where Moses stood And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
    FROM: NULL, (1694), Religious Text, UK
• Albert James Pickett (1)
  • IN: Free Men (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: About this time, a bloody transaction occured in the territory of the present county of Conecuh... The party consisted of a Hillabee Indian, who had murdered so many men, that he was called Instillicha, the Man-slayer -- a desperate white man, who had fled from the States from the crime of murder, and whom, account of his activity and ferocity, the Indians called the Cat -- and a bloody-thirsty negro, named Rob.
    FROM: History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period, (1851), Book, US