Alfred Moore House

Famous quotes containing the words alfred, moore and/or house:

    “Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
    He is no better, he is much the same.”
    —Anonymous.

    Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)

    “The monkeys winked too much and were afraid of snakes. The zebras,
    supreme in their abnormality; the elephants with their fog-colored skin
    and strictly practical appendages”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “A pilgrim I on earth perplext,
    with sinns, with cares and sorrows vext,
    By age and paines brought to decay,
    and my Clay house mouldring away,
    Oh how I long to be at rest
    and soare on high among the blest!”
    —Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)